Breast Milk or Formula? What is your opinion?

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Breast Milk or Formula? What is your opinion? I feel that this decision is for the mothers to make and I don't feel that one or the other should be forced on us mothers. This is something us as mothers need to decide. I just don't feel it's right for other mothers or anyone at that, to tell another mother that breast feeding is the only way because it's not. So many people say that formula is bad and that it is dangerous to your baby. That makes mothers that can't breast feed and only have formula as their choice, feel horrible and that is wrong. Whatever the case may be, every mother out there needs to know that all this talk about formula being dangerous to your baby isn't true. No choice is wrong. How is it a wrong choice? If you want to breast feed your baby, then good for you and if you want to formula feed your baby, then good for you. Whatever choice a mother makes is her choice and nobody else should be concerned about that. I know a lot of people think that formula is dangerous, but where are the facts? Well there isn't any because nobody can prove that formula is dangerous. Yes, we all know that breast milk is the number one choice, but, formula is second best and still good enough for our babies. Formulas are regulated by the Food and Drug Administration. The safety of commercially prepared formula is also ensured by the agency's nutrient requirements and by strict quality control procedures that require manufacturers to analyze each batch of formula for required nutrients, to test samples for stability during the shelf life of the product, to code containers to identify the batch, and to make all records available to FDA investigators. The composition of infant formula is similar to breast milk, but it isn't a perfect match, because the exact chemical makeup of breast milk is still unknown. John C. Wallingford, Ph.D., an infant nutrition specialist with FDA's Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, notes that "infant formula is increasingly close to breast milk." More than half the calories in breast milk come from fat, and the same is true for today's infant formulas. Everything I have stated about formula came from the FDA. So what is the problem with people putting down mothers that use formula? Just because a mother breast feeds, doesn’t make her a better mother then a mother that uses formula.