Moondog has supported me in the past so I am sad if what I said to her seems unfair. I don't think anyone's sincerity or passion should outweigh their common sense about what is likely to be provocative in a bad way, though.
Calling formula 'junk' is not the same as casting aspersions on fruit shoots or sausage rolls - for goodness sake, cataloguequeen, does it have to be spelled out for you? The milk that's fed to a baby is all bound up with people's feelings about themselves as mothers, the hopes they have to breastfeed and society's f**d up view of the way women are 'allowed' to use their breasts to nourish their babies....it is never the same as the choice to buy a Gregg's sausage roll or to make your own with wholemeal pastry and oragnically-raised pork.
Of course mumsnet should discuss the way formula is made, the way it is marketed, and the way too many women end up feeling they have no choice but to use it.
But here, of all places, we should be able to do it without hurting people or insulting them.
The true facts about formula's impact on health are disturbing (there's nothing 'supposedly' about it, 1Baby1Bump), and all the more so because they're 'hidden'. We can be grown up about it all, without chucking upsetting terms about.