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A report ordered by Congress formally concludes that the FDA should limit the amount of salt in...
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Tuesday, October 2, 2012, 7:10 AM ETA report ordered by Congress formally concludes that the FDA should limit the amount of salt in restaurants and package foods to lower the risk of heart disease. Sources indicate that the report is the jumpstart legislators need in order to initiate a comprehensive phase-down of the use of salt in the $600B food industry.
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1. I do not want the government deciding what I can and can not eat. (Yes, they should make safety regulations, but they already don't enforce the ones on the books now) The solution is already available now, just ask for reduced salt. Heck my grandfather was doing this 40 years ago.
2. Reducing salt makes the food taste like cardboard. We cook at home with reduced salt and when I go out to a restaurant I want the food to taste good.
This is just more government waste through regulation and all to make some politician feel good as they are stealing us blind elsewhere.
What goes around comes around. I want a ban on the excessive use of eye makeup. It only makes sense in this world of want. We'll see how our First Nutrition Lady goes for that one.
But if they're going to say "You must be part of our collective health-care scheme or else! Oh, besides, now that you're part of our collective health-care scheme, we have a right to regulate everything you do as it all has an impact on your health."
Well, that my friends is the stuff of civil war.
"Enough is enough unless it's not enough."
-- Yogi Berra
But you can not get that great popcorn oil taste anymore thanks to the oil nazi in chief (or previous nazi in chief, not sure which, but it does not matter.)
You only die once. So use your own judgement. Get rid of the politicians, you do not like and do not play the "blame" game.
1. What you miss is that this removes the right of the restaurant to prepare food to taste the way they think is best.
2. The way to control the restaurant is already present and does not require government intervention. If the food is too salty (and we have visited establishments like this) then don't go back. Capitalism is a powerful motivator. Fill out your comment card and tell them to remove the salt.
or just tell them when you order that you want a low taste experience to prepare a low salt version.
3. Personally, I don't go to restaurants any more that fail to salt the french fries. Sorry, but I go to a restaurant to eat good food, if I wanted to fix it myself I would eat at home.
I am tired of living in a world that caters to every last little idiosyncrasy. I dont want to lose the world that craters to the popular needs and desires. And I want good food when I go out to eat.
This is nothing more than political payback to the liberal food nazis.
Everything in the world cannot be controlled.
Can't educate the children.
Can't defend our embassies....
But by golly, we're gonna study and regulate your salt and soda!
time for voter revolt make our own laws first ones being that any and all laws must be voted on by general public NOT by CONgress when a LAW passes by majority of the vote it will expire in say 50 years. that way it can be re-voted on by the public... Stop the lawyers and politicians from infringing on our rights & freedoms!