Banking Another Bodily Fluid
You learn something new every day. Today, thanks to Jodie, I learned about breast milk banks. Being male and childless, I don’t think about breast milk very often. However, it turns out that there’s a need for excess breast milk. Why, there’s even a bank in my own backyard:
A Milk Bank collects, screens, pasteurizes and distributes donated breastmilk. The BC Womens Milk Bank helps to meet the urgent needs of children whose mothers are unable to supply the breastmilk which their babies require for healthy growth and development.
Apparently this is the only such bank in Canada. Not in Canada? Consult HMBANA, the Human Milk Banking Association of North America, and they’ll hook you up with locations in the US and Mexico. I guess you’re out of luck if you live in the rest of the world.
Like blood and unlike sperm, apparently donors don’t actually get any cash for thier donations. Actually, I don’t know what the story is with sperm in Canada–I’ve never known anyone who made deposit.
UPDATE: On a related note, John Dvorak finds a peculiar bumper sticker.
Jeff 
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