You can’t always get what you want
The Food and Drug Administration is preparing to lower the boom on sodium content in American food…the salty and the sweet will be carted off in Michelle Obama’s great food roundup. The rules are being worked out with the producers so that consumers won’t notice any big shift, but one day it will be illegal to sell food that exceeds federal standards for saltiness…
after decades of failing to scare people off salt, the government will simply turn it into a controlled substance. They claim that thousands of lives will be saved from decreased incidence of high blood pressure and hail the move as a blow against Big Food…Big Food will be able to use the regulations they help design to dominate the market even more. They are already spending millions to find new chemical compounds that keep the foods yummy but skirt the new sodium prohibition.
The local potato chip maker whose greasy treats taste divine will find that they can’t afford Frito Lay’s Space Age salt substitute. Mom and Pop will have to sell chips that taste like a fried dishrag and eventually close…the president’s health program will be imposed in pieces over the next four years. By the end, the government will have a fiduciary interest in the waistlines and cholesterol counts of every American.
If someone told you twenty years ago that salt and carbon dioxide were slated to become controlled substances subject to strict federal regulation, would you have believed it?
April 23rd, 2010 at 6:09 am
If the feds can control the amount of water that you toilet holds, therefore making what comes out important, why shouldn’t they be able to control what goes in that eventually winds up in the toilet bowl?
Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain who wants to control every aspect of your life. He is just a figment of your imagination.
But then, it does seem reasonable that if the government wants to control your health care, it also has to control your behavior that affects your health. Think how thin and healthy we will all be when food is just too disgusting to eat.
April 23rd, 2010 at 1:34 pm
EPA is also trying to control all waters, and land around those waters … meaning every pond, and every bit of land that is part of any watershed … meaning everything.
One if by land, two if by sea, three if by food, four if by bailout … but this is a jailbreak .. they are attacking everywhere.
April 23rd, 2010 at 1:37 pm
Our country really is looking a lot like the depiction in the movie “Escape from L.A.” No salt, no red meat…
…wait a minute, I can always keep a few salt packets in my wallet. Also, what if we prepare our own food?
April 24th, 2010 at 2:19 am
We have how many thousand miles of coastline surrounded by salt water? I live in the so called Salt City. Yeah, controlling salt will work as well as most government programs. It’ll waste money and accomplish nothing.
A lot of processed food has way too much salt in it, and I’m certainly OK with making it mandatory to tell consumers how much is in there. I quit patronizing restaurants that over-salt the food. (That’d be Tully’s here – two strikes and you can keep the tuna melt. I told you, but you didn’t listen…)
November can’t get here soon enough, and maybe the message will sink in if enough of us vote no incumbents.
April 24th, 2010 at 7:07 pm
What was Ghandi’s first big protest against the corrupt regime that had enslaved his country? Why, I do believe the Mahatma was protesting that the government had made it harder for ordinary people to get salt!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_Satyagraha
Incidentally, who empowered Michelle Obama to “roundup” food or anything else, for that matter?
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