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36 Women's Rts. L. Rep. 435 (2014-2015)
Got Milk - A Call for Federal Regulation and Support of Human Donor Milk

handle is hein.journals/worts36 and id is 453 raw text is: GOT MILK? A CALL FOR FEDERAL REGULATION AND SUPPORT OF HUMAN DONOR MILK Jenine Kenna I. INTRODUCTION The history of breastfeeding mirrors the history of womankind.1 Breastfeeding is strongly rooted throughout human culture, as evidenced by artwork and literature dating back centuries and found across the world.2 However, for as long as there has been a written and visual history of breastfeeding, there has been an expressed desire to find breastfeeding alternatives, including the use of wet nurses and milk substitutes.3 The alternative method of infant feeding most commonly employed within a given place and time, depended greatly on both the cultural and societal norms, as well as the value placed on human life. Social and cultural conditions have a profound influence on the history of breastfeeding and its alternatives.4 In some cultures, such as ancient Israel, babies were considered a blessing and breastfeeding was believed to be a religious obligation.5 This sense of religious obligation can be seen repeatedly in the Bible,6 as Sierra Lactation, Introduction, BREASTFEEDINGART.NET, http://www.breastfeedingart.net/introduction.html (last visited Jan. 6, 2016). 2 See generally Sierra Lactation, Timeline of Breast Feeding Art History, BREASTFEEDINGART.NET, http://www.breastfeedingart.net/ (last visited Jan. 6, 2016) (If indeed a picture is worth a thousand words, imagine the impact of a thousand pictures. What you are about to see are several hundred breastfeeding pictures, valued in words too numerous to count. ) Id. ' See Ian G. Wickes, A History of Infant Feeding, Part I Primitive Peoples: Ancient Works: Renaissance Writers, ARCHIVES OF DISEASE IN CHILDHOOD, 151 (1952) [hereinafter Wickes, Part I] (discussing the earliest writings on infant feeding). 4 See Ian G. Wickes, A History ofInfant Feeding, Part II. Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, ARCHIVES OF DISEASE IN CHILDHOOD, 232,238 (1952) [hereinafter Wickes, Part Il]. s Wickes, Part I, supra note 3 at 154. 6 See, e.g., Luke 11:27 (King James). And it came to pass, as he spake these things, a certain woman of the company lifted up her voice, and said unto him, Blessed [is] the womb that bare thee, and the paps which thou hast sucked. Id.