அய்யகோ! தாய்பாலுமா விற்பனைக்கு ! - Breast milk becomes a commodity. sry state of affairs.

As industry grows in US, activists raise ethical concerns about commercialization
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When Gretty Amaya took an unpaid maternity leave five months ago, she started what she calls a part-time job to help pay the bills. Amaya, who lives in Miami, has made more than $2,000 (Rs 1,25,520) so far by pumping breast milk and selling what is left over after feeding her baby daughter.
Frozen milk from Amaya -and from hundreds of other women throughout the country -is flown in to what resembles a pharmaceutical factory . Inside, it is concentrated into a high-protein product fed to premature babies in intensive care units. 

Breast milk, that most ancient and fundamental of nourishments, is becoming an industrial commodity , and one of the newest frontiers of the biotechnology industry -even as concerns abound over this fast-growing business. "This is white plasma," said Scott A Elster, the chief executive of the company that owns the factory, Prolacta Bioscience. He was comparing milk to blood plasma, which has long been collected from donors and made into medical products like immune globulin, which helps fight infections, and clotting factors for hemophiliacs. 

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நேற்றைக்கு (22-03-2015) சண்டே டைம்ஸில் அமெரிக்காவில் தாய்ப்பாலையே விற்பனைப்பொருளாக ஆக்கிவிட்டார்கள். தாய்மை இயற்கையின் அருட்கொடை. தாய் என்ற நமது இறை நமக்கு வழங்குகின்ற தாய்ப்பாலின் புனிதத்தன்மையை மறுதலிக்கிறார்களே என்ற வேதனை, நேற்றைக்கு இந்த செய்தியைப் படித்ததிலிருந்து மனம் வெம்புகிறது.

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