Breast: The Original White Milk

I'm glad to report that The National Pork board has redeemed themselves in this issue and raised money for the Mother's Milk Bank of Ohio to show its support of breastfeeding moms. What a happy ending!

To quote Jennifer's blog:

There's nothing wrong with protecting your trademark folks. Many of the posts that I read stated that the Pork Board had no business bugging me because I'm just a poor, innocent, breastfeeding promoting mom. (Some went so far in deifying me that I half expected Emmitt to walk on water in the bath tub.) I'll say it again...there is NOTHING wrong with a big business protecting their trademark. My argument was that they should do it by hiring a lawyer that won't make asinine assumptions about the site in question and that they could do it a little more politely.

I'd also like to echo her thanks to the important people and organizations who helped her through this debacle: Amy Hooker of Maven Communications , Brian Moore of Brian J Moore and Associates Her hosting company, Mor Designs who increased her bandwidth to keep the site from crashing and the many lawyers and law firms that contacted me to offer pro bono services, particularly the Electronic Freedom Foundation since they exist for exactly this type of issue.

Breastmilk and Pigs

The Lactivist a site that aims to promote breastfeeding through humor is actually being threatened with a lawsuit from The Pork Board for selling shirts bearing the slogan "The other white milk." Talk about beyond ridiculous! One of the people who commented on the blog post said they were sending a link to the Ellen Degeneres and Oprah shows. I hope they pick up on it, particularly Ellen, I know she would have some great zingers for this one. Speaking of really cool comediennes, I should send this to Stephanie Miller as well, she'd have a field day with this! Good Luck to Jennifer!