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The Democrats’ War on Bacon.

Salt, too.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  April 20th, 2010 at 02:00 PM  | 

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Let me just add my name to the list of people visibly itching to bounce a salt shaker off of the FDA’s collective forehead:

The Food and Drug Administration is planning an unprecedented effort to gradually reduce the salt consumed each day by Americans, saying that less sodium in everything from soup to nuts would prevent thousands of deaths from hypertension and heart disease. The initiative, to be launched this year, would eventually lead to the first legal limits on the amount of salt allowed in food products.

…because, of course, the FDA has nothing better to do with its time.  Look, I understand that the nanny-state Left doesn’t trust its own judgment and ability to make informed decisions, and that’s fine.  In fact, I agree with them: I don’t trust their judgment or ability to make informed decisions, either.  But why do they insist on trying to interfere with my judgment or ability to make informed decisions? – Aside from them generally being annoying neo-Puritan gloom-magnets, of course.

At any rate, I can’t wait to see the FDA explain to the American people why they can’t have proper bacon anymore…

Moe Lane

Crossposted to Moe Lane.

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  • Dan McLaughlin

    Just sayin’

  • Swamp_Yankee

  • conservvoter
  • erp617

    Dear guvmint, thanks for your concern, but I’ll decide what to eat and just now enjoyed one of the most delightful culinary treats on the face of the earth, the lowly BLT. Don’t bother getting back to me. Just go away.

  • Justin_Case

    by saying that if you are going to be on medicaid, medicare, or ObamaCare, etc then you have to play by the government’s rules. “Salt is bad for you, you must have someone to look out for you”.

    Many people do not seem to mind sin taxes on items such as tobacco, yet they fail to realize that tobacco products have, historically, been heavily taxed-even before last year’s tax hike for which O is responsible. The same will happen to food products the government deems unhealthy and having the potential to add to medical costs for which it will claim to be footing the bill.

    If entities are receiving money or services from the Federal Government, ie local schools, then they must follow its dictates.

    Soon Cap and Trade may be part of our everyday life and people who have wood stoves, fireplaces or barbecues will be subject to paying taxes on these, to say nothing of additional costs for fuel and electricity.

    The sky is the limit for future paternalistic government intrusion.

  • merryj1

    … is just what we need in Big Brother!

    There should be an inviolable RULE that any government official at any level of governance should be voted out (or fired, in the case of appointive offices) after a first instance of verbalizing a desire to enact a rule about or impose a tax on any conduct that is legal. PERIOD.

    The basis for such a rule is that they demonstrate a mindset that is simply incompatible with individual liberty, and that mindset makes them unfit (oh, OK, ‘psychologically incapacitated’) to hold any public office or execute any public responsibility.

  • chipbennett

    …instructs us to eat 300g of carbohydrate a day? (Extremely excessive consumption of – primarily refined – carbohydrate being, of course, the root cause of hyperinsulinemia, hypertension, high cholesterol, heart disease, diabetes, and cancer.)

    I’ll keep my own advice, thankyouverymuch.

  • mkozikowski

    I mean, we will all just walk around with a salt shaker, won’t we?

    Is this part of the control the new “Health Care Bill” provides?

  • tngal

    please sir, could i have some more? That gruel is salt free isn’t it?

    Thankfully, they’ve found yet another way to save me from myself. If they’re not careful I’ll harm me in my sleep when I’m not looking.

  • partyof1

    you think I’m joking

    Actually the FDA is correct, the American diet is absurdly high in salt. But the way to combat that is by educating people on nutrition, not giving more power to the federal government so they can have that much more leverage over the private sector.

  • http://pocketchangeproductions.net/ anotherindyfilmguy

    I can’t help but think of that episode of original Trek with the alien who kept sucking the salt out of those poor red shirts bodies…

  • Marcus_Traianus

    Remember the EPA’s high efficiency toilet lowering tank capacity and theoretically the amount of water used with each flush? People just flushed twice. Ah, liberty is indeed, well, liberating.

    Folks will just carry a salt shaker or those little packet thingys. A sprinkling of liberty?

  • snowshooze

    Of course. We will need the money to fund the Salt Miners Employee Protection Act… Subsidize the Salt Industry, re-train all the Miners to be organic chemists to produce alternative salts.. ( Not to be confused with DADT ) and hire 48,000 new IRS field agents in co-operation with the BATFE&S to tax, control, regulate and monitor approved salt production ( Primarily for use by the DOT winter roads maintenance program) further fund the FDA and outfit the Federal Marshals Office with a new generation of fully automatic belt fed riot control shotguns with Salt Alternative shot to guard against insurrection at DOT stockpiles, restaurants and movie theaters…

  • toadold

    Well some recent research indicates that while salt may aggravate some
    conditions they amount of salt you need for good neurotransmitter action is higher than the FDA recommendations.
    Another article indicates the “free school” lunch program is one of the reasons for obesity in children.
    The food pyramid that the government recommends is coming under increasing attacks. “Too much like the diet they use to fatten cattle.
    A study out of Britain says that fatty breakfast of bacon and eggs for example, keeps you from over eating the rest of the day and actually fights against weight gain. Too many politicians making food policy and not enough scientists really studying what is going on.

  • momo

    when you take it from my cold, dead hands!!!!!!

  • grandma

    for the unsuspecting. Here is the sweeter than sweet, saltier than salt website. http://www.bioportfolio.com/biocorporate/9329-Senomyx.html

    We can follow the money trail and ego entrails to find out why the left does anything.

    Some sites have indicated that this new product has elements of kidney cells from aborted children. I do not have the scientific background to even begin to look into that claim – which sounds preposterous – but hey…vaccines do.

  • oblio

    at the same time.

    LOL

    Be vewwwy vewwwy qwyet …..

    (Apologies to Moe)

  • http://www.suvstrategery.blogspot.com SoFiMil

    or pork – the other white meat.

    And Islamic Extremism.

    All seriousness aside, I look forward to your headlines, Moe. You’re keeping me sane during an extremely disheartening for our Republic.

  • http://www.suvstrategery.blogspot.com SoFiMil

    .

  • Menlo

    Let’s get a definition of “dietary fiber” before we start dealing with salt or any other limits. Despite requiring its labeling, the FDA lacks any single meaningful definition of the term.

  • southernilpat

    A low salt diet is preferable for the 20-30% of the population that are sodium responders. The rest of us, not so much.

    What’s next? Outlawing the sale of table salt?

  • davesinsanantonio

    just make everything they dislike illegal. They have no compunctions against passing any old law they want, they have proven that.

  • davesinsanantonio

    just declare salt a poison and ban its manufacture and sale everywhere. These people know no boundaries to their desire to control. They are mad for power and mad with power, and nothing but getting them out of power will stop them.

  • The_Gadfly

    I work in one of those agencies that allegedly is concerned about saving water. The toilets are all equipped with sensors that flush as soon as you get up. So after you finish with the rest of your clean up, they have to be flushed again. Now as a money grubbing knuckle-dragger, I’d want the sensors timed better just to save on the water bill. Them, … not so much.

  • The_Gadfly

    present your drivers license and sign for it when you buy it. If you buy too much of it in a certain time frame, you can expect a visit from Men in Black.

  • davesinsanantonio

    in the diet. But, I use it anyway because it makes things taste better. So while I appreciate that others are concerned with my well being, I am perfectly capable of weighing the risk against the benefit and making my own choices. So, stop with the preaching. When I want preaching I go to church, not to the government or the media, or even to blogs such as this one.
    I had a nephrologist tell me that for the vast majority of people excess salt is just excreted from the body anyway. So, stop forcing the majority to suffer because of the weak kidneys of a few. Those people should be capable of learning how to control their own diets.
    This post isn’t really about salt. It is about liberty versus government intrusion. Stay out of my kidneys! They are mine, not yours! I am capable of policing my own kidneys, thankyouverymuch.

  • davesinsanantonio

    starved for salt that we have to go out and lick the highways?

  • davesinsanantonio

    licking my fingers!

  • davesinsanantonio

    On the one hand they want to ban salt, sugar, and fats so that we live longer. Then, on the other hand. they pass the so-called health care bill with death panels to kill us off!
    It must really be about totalitarian control. They want to make our lives as miserable as possible, then, when they have us as low as we can go, they kill us.
    What wonderful, caring people they are. I think I shall swoon in ecstasy at the thought of how loving they are. We should all thank them for taking care of us, since we are obviously unable to take care of ourselves. How could we possibly have survived without them making all of our decisions for us up until now? Let’s re-elect them for life.

  • pamdale

    …no pun intended.

  • renny

    These people are actually just stupid. For decades they banned eggs as a cholestorol problem, and then just as quickly decided they weren’t.

    The Alar scare a couple years ago nearly bankrupted all apple farming in the US. Then it turned out the reports were wrong.

    For a generation, people with autistic kids have been tormented that they had had their children vaccinated. Now, the Lancet in Eng. says its orig. article was badly sourced and had no significant sampling, so all the blame on mercury in inoculation serums NEVER had any validity.

    What these people know about salt prob. can be written on a grain of.

  • dontremaine

    There is a motive behind this. Obamacare needs to pay for treatment of suffering old people that ate too much salt. Just like the helmet laws for motorcycles. They respond “We do not want to pay for someone with serious head injuries”. I say “then don’t”. This is the same logic; the government will have to pay. The government should not be paying for this stuff with my tax money. If I want to ride my motorcycle without a helmet, that should be my choice, not the governments. Same with salt, drugs (recreational or medical), cigarettes, alcohol, the doctor I choose, the treatment I choose, the mileage my car gets, whether I want an AK-47 or a 50 caliber rifle. These are all personal choices and the government needs to stay out of my life choices. It’s none of their business. We need to go back to the constitution and erase all laws that even smell unconstitutional. The USA is an unusual country, we are a free people. This has implications; we must also be a moral people. The immoral will steal, kill, rape… These people should be tried and convicted. After that they either are put to death or sentenced to jail time. Three strikes your dead is a good law as long as the laws are just. Possession of contraband is dumb. What is contraband? Stuff the government thinks citizens should not have. It is not the role of government to decide what I can have or what I can do. As long as I do not step on another persons freedom I should be able to come and go as I please. We are getting stupid about what freedom means. Freedom is “freedom from the government”, not “I don’t like guns so you can’t have any”; or banning stuff because it’s not good for you. Tell me it’s bad, why it’s bad, and I’ll decide if I want to take the risk. The market will decide products. If no one buys bacon because it is a health risk no one will make it, no profit. The key is to be informed not controlled.

  • sccrenny

    with seat belt laws. Same principle, the balancing of risk and personal freedom was taken away from us in the usual congenial Federal manner. Pass the laws we want or you’ll never see your federal tax dollars again!

    Exactly how did it ever come about that the Federal government obviously gained the ability to take tax dollars from the people of the states that then had to be distributed back to the states, after siphoning off half, and using the other half to blackmail the states to do things the people of the state would never allow the state to do?

  • http://www.plumbbobblog.com Plumb_Bob

    How can they reduce the salt content of food reliably without banning table salt outright? If they remove salt from the can of soup and it changes the taste, the consumer will just pick up his salt shaker, shake it a few times, and whamo! the salt content is right back to where it was before!

    Are they really that stupid? Oh, wait a minute…