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Chefs Call Proposed New York Salt Ban 'Absurd'
MYFOXNY ^ | 3/11/10 | ARUN KRISTIAN DAS

Posted on 03/11/2010 10:32:30 AM PST by BigEdLB

Some New York City chefs and restaurant owners are taking aim at a bill introduced in the New York Legislature that, if passed, would ban the use of salt in restaurant cooking.

"No owner or operator of a restaurant in this state shall use salt in any form in the preparation of any food for consumption by customers of such restaurant, including food prepared to be consumed on the premises of such restaurant or off of such premises," the bill, A. 10129 , states in part.

(Excerpt) Read more at myfoxny.com ...


TOPICS: Government; US: New York
KEYWORDS: nannystate; totalitarianism
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To: BigEdLB
Yikes. Salt isn't even bad for you. Its a myth. Sure, if you eat a pound of it will mess you up, but not as it is used for food.

Some of us (like me) actually NEED more salt than others because our kidneys kick it out faster than normal.

Salt is mandatory for health. THIS IS INSANE!
41 posted on 03/11/2010 11:14:18 AM PST by StolarStorm
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To: oneamericanvoice

I would agree the US overuses salt in processed foods. I don’t perceive a big problem with restaurants and bakeries, which this guy wants to go after.


42 posted on 03/11/2010 11:15:20 AM PST by colorado tanker
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To: colorado tanker

We over use MSG. That’s what is really messing people up in processed and restaurant food.


43 posted on 03/11/2010 11:16:06 AM PST by StolarStorm
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To: BigEdLB
Bloomberg's doc must be restricting his salt intake... transfat was last year's issue...

See folks... here's the deal... when you let government persecute one group of people, e.g. smokers... and why can't smokers do what they want with their bodies like women who abort their babies --> thus they become mentally ill or get breast cancer...

Or allow gays and down lows to infect the country with Aids...

Hope you see where I'm going with this... Bloomberg and the other RATS got to go...

In the 50s these hall monitors would have been called mentally ill....

44 posted on 03/11/2010 11:16:36 AM PST by xtinct (The will of God will never take you where the Grace of God will not protect you..Be Strong Patriots!)
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To: CSM
Consumer freedome was taken away with the tobacco bans. In fact, many FReepers hailed that usurping of private property rights. We warned them. They didn’t listen, even to the point of mocking us. Now they are at the mercey of idiotic rulers.

I agree. I repeatedly posted warnings to the tobacco banners that their moves would set precedents which they would come to regret. Well ...

45 posted on 03/11/2010 11:21:20 AM PST by NaughtiusMaximus (Spring returns.)
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To: StolarStorm
Here's the real problem:

"I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids."

46 posted on 03/11/2010 11:23:43 AM PST by colorado tanker
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To: BigEdLB

Note to self: pick jaw up off floor.

I’m speechless...

Colonel, USAFR


47 posted on 03/11/2010 11:25:57 AM PST by jagusafr (Kill the red lizard, Lord! - nod to C.S. Lewis)
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To: BigEdLB
I don't think we need to worry about this proposal getting far.

The interesting question is will the voters in this man's district put him out of office. The man is obviously too stupid to function as an elected official. If he can't get this issue correct, what's he doing about more complicated issues?
48 posted on 03/11/2010 11:33:20 AM PST by truthguy (Good intentions are not enough!)
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To: BigEdLB

How does this work in a Korean restaurant? NO KIMCHI FOR YOU!


49 posted on 03/11/2010 11:33:26 AM PST by boocoowell (Nuclear power now for crying out loud)
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To: jacquej

What about margaritas?


50 posted on 03/11/2010 11:36:55 AM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: BigEdLB
If you go to some of the blogs you'll find plenty pf posters cheering this insanity on. And not only this but sin taxes as well on those "unhealthy" foods.

Actually it goes deeper because mixed in with their nannyism is a simmering hatred for the companies and businesses that make money from it, just as with insurance companies or anyone else. These people are socialists.

51 posted on 03/11/2010 11:39:32 AM PST by Reaganwuzthebest
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To: BigEdLB
Felix Ortiz is the NY Assemblyman who called for this salt ban.

I Googled his official website and found that parts of it are completely in Spanish.

52 posted on 03/11/2010 11:39:36 AM PST by reaganrevolutionin2010
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To: In Maryland

So you were forced at gunpoint to enter private property were the legal activity of tobacco use was taking place?

As a consumer you have plenty of choices. Business owners should be allowed to cater to whatever market they chose. I don’t like screaming children, so I stay out of Chuck E Cheese. If you don’t like the smell of tobacco smoke, then don’t reward them with your dollars.

How about we ban shell fish from seafood restaurants, because someone with an allergy might want to go to enter that private property?

Private property is a lynch pin for freedom. These “bans” are a trampling of private property rights. You are the perfect example of the sheeple that celebrated this trampling.


53 posted on 03/11/2010 11:42:48 AM PST by CSM (Keeper of the "Dave Ramsey Fan" ping list. FReepmail me if you want your beeber stuned.)
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To: In Maryland
If the salt from my food ever blows in your face, I'll give some thought to the analogy; and when my salt causes you an asthma attack, I might give a thought to banning it.

Your salt burns my eyes.

54 posted on 03/11/2010 11:44:04 AM PST by Lazamataz (Seriously. The only way Obama can possibly pull this out is to declare Martial Law before November.)
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To: CSM

Under what authority are they banning salt?


55 posted on 03/11/2010 11:44:22 AM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: colorado tanker

Restaurants use far too much salt because the American palett is used to it. This is a over reaction to his dad’s death. Probably part of the grieving. But his dad didn’t die from salt. Salt exacerbated the condition, but wasn’t the cause of death.


56 posted on 03/11/2010 11:44:36 AM PST by oneamericanvoice (Support freedom! Support the troops! Surrender is not an option!)
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To: BigEdLB

Next: Water is banned in the preparation of coffee and tea.

Idiots.


57 posted on 03/11/2010 11:45:07 AM PST by Moltke (DOPE will get you 4 to 8 in the Big House - HOPE will get you 4 to 8 in the White House.)
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To: BigEdLB

New York wants to become Detroit apparently.


58 posted on 03/11/2010 11:47:07 AM PST by alarm rider (The left will always tell you who they fear the most. What are they telling you now?)
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To: driftdiver

The authority that was given to them by the sheeple that hailed the trampling of private property rights.


59 posted on 03/11/2010 11:47:15 AM PST by CSM (Keeper of the "Dave Ramsey Fan" ping list. FReepmail me if you want your beeber stuned.)
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To: Lazamataz; In Maryland
"Your salt burns my eyes."

Then quit sticking your face in his french fries ...
[smile]

60 posted on 03/11/2010 11:47:54 AM PST by BlueLancer (I'm getting a fine tootsy-frootsying right here...)
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