I got my moniker from a state official who called me a zealot in public for using his words, unchanged, in a paper. His deputy said "you haven't convinced me that breastmilk is that much better than formula." I replied, "Then why are we promoting it?" Another staffer told me that some people were offended that I was spending all my time on breastfeeding, until I reminded her that my contract required me to put 40 hours a week into my job as breastfeeding coordinator. I think they wanted to have 75% breastfeed and let the other 75% continue bottlefeeding, not questioning the impossibility of those numbers. The worst flak came from my pointing out that "increasing breastfeeding to 75%" meant exactly the same as "reducing artificial feeding to 25%" and that the flip side of "advantages of breastfeeding" is the "drawbacks of artificial feeding." My granddaughter was born near the close of the contract, and I figured "you want zealot? I'll GIVE YOU zealot! I threw out my high heels and shoulder purse for a beltpack and comfy shoes, and decided grannies had an inherent right to be opinionated. So there. Linda Smith