While I agree with your overall opinion that persons should be free to make up their own minds, there are some things to consider about the baby formula issue. Breast milk is usually the best food for infants. Once on formula feeding, mothers will no longer be able to nurse their infants and formula feeding must be continued for the first year. Pediatricians instruct mothers to avoid feeding infants less than a year old with bottled milk, but formula is very expensive and beyond the means of low income mothers. The US WIC program provides many low income mothers with vouchers for a limited amount (what should be needed for 1 month) of formula at no cost to them, but they often run out of formula after the middle of each month and would need to pay for any additional formula on their own. The theft of baby formula from my local supermarkets' shelves has reached a level where supermarkets and pharmacies no longer put it out on their store shelves. One has to go to the customer services area or cashier supervisor and ask for formula. I cannot think of any reason why anyone would want formula, other than to feed an infant. I once worked with a Brazilian pediatrician who was training in pulmonary medicine. He said that he could no longer be a pediatrician because he could not continue to work with Brazilian mothers who were coming to him with sick infants asking for medical help but their infant's problem was malnutrition and he had no food to give them.