My 2 cents-

No i dont think it should be made compulsory. i do however think that there should be more support pre and post nataly.
i had no pre natal support in regards to breast feeding, once baby was born every single midwife that came in my room or home had a different way of doing things, i ended up very very confused! i am in NO way blmaing the midwives nor am i saying they should spend more time teaching women how to breast feed, thats not their job but there should definitly be more LC's available to women.

On to the other arguement- yes breast is best, we all know this, but atm there is only 2 choices. Breast milk or formula, if u could go down to the shops and buy a bottle of breast milk im sure we'd see the number of FF babies drop. but this isnt an option sadly.
FF mothers have made their desicion to do so based on the knowledge they have and noone can slam another mother for making a desicion that she thinks is what is going to benifit her baby the most.

Kass u said its not a matter of 'so long as the baby is fed?' so what happens to mums who make insificiant milk or none, or who have lazy suckers ect, do we just let their babies starve to death?

This is an arguement that will never be settled, so we need to support one anothers choices, even if we dont agree with it. We as mothers are told all to often that we're doing the wrong thing, even if in our own minds we know that we are, and im not just talking about feeding im talking about the whole parenting journey. there needs to be less you're doing it wrong and more you're doing a wonderfull job