New York Pushes for Salt Reduction in Restaurant, Packaged Food (Rush was right)

Business Week ^ | January 11, 2000 | Shannon Pettypiece

[Stayfree]

New York City health officials are pushing to cut the amount of salt in packaged and restaurant foods by 25 percent over the next five years,

[Stayfree]

Big Brother will now dictate what you eat

[Bushbacker1]

Will salt shakers be removed from restaurant tables as well?

[massgopguy]

Thank you for ordering. Your order for dinner has been sent to HHS for approval per your dietary compliance. You should receive it in eight to ten weeks if approved.

[RnMomof7]

I like salt ..

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

So now the food in NY will be overpriced and need salt?

[Bobalu]

[BenLurkin]

[brownsfan]

You’re spot on, but Americans have been neutered and brainwashed. Most will see it as “good for you”, and accept it.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

If people let government decide what foods they eat
and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon
be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who
live under tyranny.

Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)

[Scythian]

Salt is just about the only way a person gets Iodine these days, and there are studies out that show that iodized table salt is often missing or way short the supposed iodine. This has lead to a lot of thyroid issues, I do not for one thing salt is so bad for you, I take Idoral now for Iodine but break the pills and take it in smaller amounts than recommended.

[stockpirate]

“A people who refuse to use extreme violent force to obtain or preserve their liberty deserves the tyrants that rule them.” Thomas Jefferson

[Fresh Wind]

I like salt...So do I, and my blood pressure is on the low side of normal. If worse comes to worse, I will smuggle salt into the restaurant.

[MinuteGal]

"Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how to answer every man."

(Colossians 4:6)

Leni

[wbill]

Until I started paying attention, I had no idea how MUCH salt was in processed food. I watch the sodium in processed food, cut back on fast food, don't add it in cooking, etc etc etc. I feel much better than I did before.

That having been said, it's none of NYC's business how much I salt my popcorn. Get the hell out of my life.

[equalitybeforethelaw]

As a metric, you know you have too much government when there is an office of government that worries about your potential salt intake. One would think the city of NY would have more pressing problems to engage than the potential of salt in a citizens diet. If I may suggest, i would recommend NYC and NY state considering replacing salt as the go to de-icer of roads in favor of sand. This would save a fortune on the early deterioration of citizen vehicles and would prevent the salization of their fresh water streams and resevoirs. I know they won’t do it because there are some very well-heeled NYers who own salt mines, but it would benefit the state and citizens with no decrease in vehiclar safety. Just sayin.

[Fresh Wind]

Cook books used to say “season to taste”

Now they will have to say “season to government specification”.

[beaversmom]

From England 30th June 2008:

Condiment nazis? Send them to the salt mines!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2039000/posts

[ZX12R]

Cook books used to say “season to taste” Now they will have to say “season to government specification”.

After you're approved to get a license to buy salt.

[Fresh Wind]

Good Lord, government drones being paid to count the number of holes in salt shakers?

[goseminoles]

All Your Salt Are Belong To Us

[Fresh Wind]

Just watch-bootleg salt stills will spring up along every mile of coastline.

[GOYAKLA]

I/You don’t need no steenking licence. I can sell you a kilo of good Columbian salt for10G’s. I also carry other spices a similar prices. Do I need /sarc ?

[myrabach]

I haven’t used salt for years and I’m very conscious of the amount of salt in prepared foods. HOWEVER this is my preference and the government needs to stay out of this! Once they determined where I could and could not smoke, this is the next control! Is this a free country?

[I am Richard Brandon]

Where’s Gandhi when you need him!!

[sionnsar]

Is this a free country?

No.

[GraceG]

>> Will salt shakers be removed from restaurant tables as well? <<

When they remove salt shakers from law abiding businesses only criminals will have salt shakers....

[GraceG]

Oh great another thing besides Guns, Ammo, Toilet paper, Gasoline, Cigarettes, Trans Fats, etc... That we will have to stock up on....

I am going down to the farm supply store to buy some salt licks in case they get outlawed....

[BraveNewCommie]

If they pass this law + become “salt Nazis,” I’m walking around with my own salt.

Screw these people. PUTTING SALT ON THAT. SALTING MY SODA. Salting my salt.

Sue me.

[Bushbacker1]

When they remove salt shakers from law abiding businesses only criminals will have salt shakers....

Now that's funny! I don't care who you are!

[Sunshine Sister]

I bet once “health care” gets passed salt will disappear from the US.

[Sunshine Sister]

Gee I wonder if we will have to put up with the salt nazi’s. You know the example was set by the smoking nazi’s. Not sure how they will connect my salt usage with second hand salt however.

[A_Tradition_Continues]

You know the old motto “When it rains, it pours.”

[MHGinTN]

That will depend upon which political party the salt producers contribute campaign funds to. The affirmative action fraud-in-chief’s administration closed more than 700 Chrysler dealerships who didn’t contribute mostly to Democrats and favored republican candidates ... and 2 ‘democrat mostly’ contributors.

[massgopguy]

Don’t you know that Shakers of Salt are the gateway to wasting away again in Margaritaville?

[freespirited]

From time to time I do the food shopping. If memory serves Campbells brought out no-salt soups years ago (blue and white instead of red and white label) only to find no one would buy them. Apparently the problem is that unsalted soup has a tendency to taste like dishwater.

I bought a can of soup the other day that says 25% less salt on the label. Obviously if there is a demand for low-salt products, the market will take care of it, no busybodies required.

[Alberta's Child]

Oddly enough, this doesn't bother me all that much.

New York City ceased being part of America a long time ago.

[Alberta's Child]

I heard an interesting report on the news this morning. Apparently many canned food producers introduced "low sodium" products years ago, only to find that they were very poorly received. Some of them gradually reduced the sodium content in their standard products over the course of several years -- so that now these standard products have no more sodium than the "low sodium" products that failed before. And yet the sales of these standard products haven't changed!

[brityank]

If they want to save salt they can quit spreading it on roads!

[RacerXSpeedRacer]

You're right..., its much better to have them spread sand and gravel onto the road surface so that we get dents, dings, chips it paint and chrome, and have to replace our windshelds each year. Yep, salt is really terrible....

[Clock King]

Bring your own salt. And Big Brother can step off.

[Publius6961]

When salt becomes a mandatory controlled substance, with people required to have prescriptions, I see tens of millions of people who have no adverse effects from unlimited salt, going postal ---- justifiably so.

Governement by Least Common Denominator may be the final straw.

[Publius6961]

I like salt...So do I, and my blood pressure is on the low side of normal. If worse comes to worse, I will smuggle salt into the restaurant.

Fortunately, the US and Canada have several tens of thousands years' worth of supply.

So no border issues are invoved.

I visualize the Salt Gestapo having checkpoints on all the Interstates and inspecting all the double-trailer rigs traveling our highways.

I also visualize the Mafia outsmarting them every time; they can disguise the loads as Venezuelan cocaine...

[Publius6961]

Don’t you know that Shakers of Salt are the gateway to wasting away again in Margaritaville?

Great point!
I never thought of that.

Obviously it makes no sense to outlaw salt before outlawing Margarita Mix.

Just sayin...

[Publius6961]

If they want to save salt they can quit spreading it on roads!

You wanker!

This isn't about saving salt.

Pay attention.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

You forgot to add trans fat free. It’s the law.

[Publius6961]

I regularly add salt to canned soup.
Depending on my mood that day.

Who'dathought? We've come full circle. As in the 2nd cetury, salt will be worth its weight in gold!

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

Ha - so I did. And don’t they have to list the ingredients and breakdown on the menus there?

[Publius6961]

You forgot to add trans fat free. It’s the law.

Thank you for allowing the perfect Segue!

For years I have wondered what made the original McDonalds french fries taste so good. Last week I finally decided to find out. After much searching, discovered (most?) of the secret.

--Use fresh large potatoes.
Am I the only one who always gets the crap at the bottom of the basket every time?
-- Use the original deep frier liquid -- 93% tallow (beef fat), 7% corn oil.
-- Sprinkle liberally with salt.

Got a deep fryer for christmas.
How big a batch should I make?

: ) __

[IamConservative]

I can see the FDA regulating the contents of packaged food. We wouldn’t want arsenic in our peas. Botulism in our beans. Melamine in our baby formula, etc.

Limiting trans fats and sodium in packaged food seems reasonable.

I don’t think the reach should extend to your dinner table though, whether in a restaurant or at home.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Once read Ray Kroc's ( The founder of McDs ) biography. He also mentioned that the much flavor of the fries had to do with how the potatoes are stored.