New York City's "voluntary" salt reduction program, "even if it does not become legally mandatory," is "astonishingly presumptuous," writes Jacob Sullum on reason.com .
Because it requires the participation of restaurant chains and food manufacturers, it will, if successful, affect the diet of the entire country. Such a nationwide shift is not justified even by the standards of "public health" paternalism, since it could do more harm than good.
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