July 26, 2011 12:10PM 

# Taking on the Food Police 

By [Sallie James](https://www.cato.org/people/sallie-james) 

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I was going to write a blog post on the myriad follies of Mark Bittman’s op-ed in Sunday’s *New York Times* about [all the ways the federal government could and should intervene in people’s dietary choices](http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/24/opinion/sunday/24bittman.html?_r=2&hpw=&pagewanted=all) , but Jacob Sullum has [already done it for me](http://reason.com/blog/2011/07/25/meddling-in-other-peoples-diet). Brilliantly.

HT: [Radley Balko](http://www.theagitator.com/)

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