The UK's plans to require by law that bread-makers add folic acid, also known as folate, to all bread is yet another example of a government clumsily experimenting on the public by medicating our food. The requirement, which is designed to make sure pregnant women get enough folic acid without having to actually educate them, may put the rest of the population -- especially the elderly -- at risk. Like the requirement for B1 in baby formula, fluoridated drinking water, and other similar government-mandated supplementation, the folic acid requirement punishes those who want to choose which and whether our diets are supplemented by various chemicals and also puts millions at risk while safeguarding only a few dozen pregnancies.