Just read this Wall Street Journal [subscription required] article, Got Milk: Chinese Crisis Creates a Market for Human Alternatives. Fascinating stuff. What do you think? Is it ethical for said Chinese moms to sell their breast milk? Is it ethical for the other moms to use and buy it? Is it ethical for the husbands of both to support or not support?

If so/not, what ethical theory or model are you relying on to get to your result and conclusion — utilitarianism, legal positivism, other? Are you consistent in the ethical model you apply in your life, or, do you pick and choose and apply the one that best suits you to get to the result you wish to obtain?

And is one way to totally screw up this new market that has developed and seems to be working reasonably well for all sides for the Chinese government to step in and regulate it (i.e., “I am from the government and I am here to help you” - to which I say … “RUN!! RUN FOR YOUR LIFE!!).

And why do you think wet nurses disappeared from the West?

Thanks to my colleague Bradford Anderson, for the article heads up.