I too am an allergic person with three allergic children and I have no
problem with folks advocating for their children or themselves I was
merely stating that this list is set aside for the  purposes of
discussing milk free diets and issues and it is my opinion that we could
focus on the sides issues on the side and summarize these conversations
back to the list.  This is done on many other lists (for example the
celiac list) that have a lot of traffic and seems to me a really good
way to meet the needs of all people, none of us here want to exclude
crucial issues but not every topic is one that needs to be discussed in
detail with the entire list.  I'm only suggesting a more efficient way
of doing things, patience is not the issue.

Larissa Blechman