Selling breast milk...

[snafu]

Any thoughts?

No question that milk banks provide an invaluable service - but isn't this just profiteering (or am I being overly cynical)? Will this encourage donations to milk banks - and for the right reasons? It just seems rather strange...

Thought you were a buyer, Snaf

I don't think this is a good plan - although if it raises awareness of "charitable" milk donation in this country, that's a good thing.

Does pasteurising not change it??

I disagree with buying/selling of it.

But yes a big campaign to raise awareness of the need would be good because until i had my dd i didn't know it existed, and until i knew someone whose premmie baby benefited from it i wouldn't have appreciated its importance.

I think in order to carry out the research they want to do, they could pay mothers to donate their milk, but then the concern is competition will rise, and milk banks will lose out.

I looked into donating milk, but before I could get my act together, DS was 6 months old and they won't let you start after that.

But on the forms, it said that if the milk couldn't be used for donation purposes for whatever reason, was it OK if they did experiments on it to find out more about it.

There aren't many milk banks in the UK - see this site for details here