There has been some discussion on LACTNET and on parent-l about being pushy
or zealous about breastfeeding.  I have some very strong feelings about
this, which I'd like to share.

While I wholeheartedly agree that in mother-to-mother encounters such as in
La Leche League we should take a very soft approach ("This has worked for
some mothers ..."), I think there is a place for zealotry, and not just in
our private discussions.  It is in the area of public policy.  We have
governments, powerful corporations and other institutions arrayed against
breastfeeding.  We must, and should attack them with all the power we can
muster.  I don't mean foolishly railing at them, but taking into the public
forum the facts about the dangers of artificial feeding, the ways in which
these institutions undermine breastfeeding, the profit that is made from the
suffering of mothers and babies, etc., etc.  We must not shrink from using
the power that is ours!

Rachael Hamlet, radical bf netsurfing lawyer mom from hell