An overzealous Starbucks’ manager in Silver Spring has incurred the wrath of dozens of mothers and their babies after illegally asking a mother to cover her breastfeeding child.

Organizers of a protest yesterday sought to go beyond simply raising awareness of the 2003 law which protects a mother’s right to breastfeed in public in Mayland, and pressure Starbucks’ to adopt a national policy, launching the website NurseAtStarbucks.com to coordinate their campaign.

Mothers at the “nurse-in” held signs, including one reading “Lactate with a Latte,” and one mother described the situation this way: “When women breast-feed, you see less breast than you do in the average Coors Light ad … The breast is doing what it’s designed to do.”