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Chefs Call Proposed New York Salt Ban 'Absurd'

A salt ban is ridiculous... Everyone should't suffer because of a few people with weight issues that can't tolerate salt. I personally love salt on my food (and lots of it). I understand having salt less items on menus, but banning it altogether is a crime.
 
MyOwnDrum said:
Hmmmmm, here is a photo of Assemblyman Ortiz, the one introducing this most excellent legislation. Do I note a pot belly on the notable Mr Ortiz?

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It's bloating from too much salt.
 
They should do it! And then see just how much they've ****ed over their top restaurants and eating establishments. Serves NY right, they love banning things and being involved when it should be left to the individual to decide for themselves.
 
MyOwnDrum said:
Restricting salt is not useful for the majority of people with hypertension anyways.



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Thank you. I say this all the time to the salt nazi's in my life. Just because they have problems with salt, doesn't mean the rest of us do.


I do agree with Aunt Spiker, processed foods are laden with salt and 700 mg per cup is excessive.
 
jamesrage said:
I guess only in states like Commiefornia and NewYork they have the food police to regulate what people eat. I think if politicians in my state did something that absurd they would be looking for a new job and possibly lynched.
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And what state is that, James?
 
Found this on the assemblyman's website:


New York State Assembly - Member Section

Still trying to figure out how "consuming less salt" means that we should ban salt entirely, or how such a ban "put the control of the sodium intake amount into the customer’s hands" when the consumers aren't able to choose high sodium options, because they're banned.

What a wacko.
 
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Ortiz should learn that cooking with salt =/= sprinkling salt on a cooked meal.
 
Come on guys. The government isn't all that bad. They just want to be our loving nannies, and if we would only just give them half a chance, they would love us to death. :mrgreen:
 
Come on guys. The government isn't all that bad. They just want to be our loving nannies, and if we would only just give them half a chance, they would love us to death.
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When this passes you can start blaming "the government" for it.
 
Why don't they just pass a law that says they must offer a salt-free version of the meal?
 
Ban? Absurd.
Restriction? Possible to consider, but restaurants compete with frozen food and pre-packaged store foods too, kind of imbalances things.
 
The writing was on the wall when they banned trans fats but no one wanted to listen then.

Slippery slope is valid in this instance.
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"When this passes you can start blaming "the government" for it."
 
Proposals like this are just awful and only serve to hurt legitimate proposals like those advanced by Bberg by confusing people into lumping them all together. What a douchebag.
 
RightinNYC said:
Proposals like this are just awful and only serve to hurt legitimate proposals like those advanced by Bberg by confusing people into lumping them all together. What a douchebag.
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didn't bloomberg suggest he would support something like this?
 
MyOwnDrum said:
Hmmmmm, here is a photo of Assemblyman Ortiz, the one introducing this most excellent legislation. Do I note a pot belly on the notable Mr Ortiz?

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I was going to make the point that most of these diet nazis are in horrendous shape. I eat a lot of sodium, I drink alcohol, and I smoke(trying to quit). These are the types of people who would call me unhealthy, yet I am cut, I can lift over 110% of my body weight on any major muscle group, can sprint for over 3/4 of a mile at full speed without getting winded, and can survive the most brutal of aerobics workouts, so.......I'd say they can take their health law crap and shove it up their unfit rears.
 

LaMR, we don't agree on much, I've noticed, but on this we do. Stupid legislators who know they can attack restaurateurs (usually small businesses) and so they do. They know they can have no impact on the huge, food multi-national corporations who are pumping s**t into supermarket and fast-food sludge, so they don't even mention them.

This whole decision is ignorant, discriminatory, ineffectual and dangerous to the livelihoods of thousands of workers and small entrepreneurs.

What are they going to do if I take a salt shaker into the restaurant with me? Force me to season my food outside on the sidewalk? Move over smokers, the salters are coming to join you!
 
They should look into the salt content of frozen foods
 
Reverend_Hellh0und said:
didn't bloomberg suggest he would support something like this?
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Nope. Bloomberg stressed that his proposal (which was to reduce overall sodium use by 25%, not to ban it altogether) was entirely voluntary. I haven't seen anyone other than this lawmaker who has said they support this proposal.
 
I think we agree at the core of liberty, we just disagree on the methodoligy and philosophical points. But I've noticed we're both anti-statists, which is okay in my book.
 
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