Forced medication

The Food Standards Agency have recommended that bread should be fortified with folic acid in order to reduce birth defects such as spina bifida. Seems reasonable? Well it's not! Taking folic acid can mask a vitamin B12 deficiency in the elderly and so possibly lead to irreversible damage to the nervous system. Pregnant women are already advised to take folic acid in the early stages of pregnancy, I know that and I have very little interest in pregnancy. Apparently we are all having to be medicated because only half of pregnant women follow the advice. "Demographics show that it is the poorest and most educationally underprivileged women who are most at risk of a spina bifida pregnancy" so says Andrew Russell, chief executive of the Association for Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus. But why should we put the elderly at risk because some mothers-to-be are too feckless to look after their future pride and joy. Maybe readers could suggest what other medications should be added to food or drink so we all get what it is deemed we should have? Also, I am male and so rather unlikely to get pregnant, why should I be forceably medicated.