The Food and Drug Administration is planning an unprecedented effort to gradually reduce the salt consumed each day by Americans... yada yada yada... to protect the idiots... yada, yada, yada.
FDA plans to limit amount of salt allowed in processed foods for health reasons
I spoke with Harkin's office and this is what the babe manning the phones told me:
The bill is for as much for environmental reasons as health reasons.
By reducing salt in our food, our stool production will be up to 15% softer and this would allow for faster fragmentation of the mass. That is critical to reducing the amount of double flushing necessary for the smaller toilet tanks mandated by Congress. Billions of gallons of potable water would be saved over the decades.
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Really? They are actually trying to control our bowel movements now?
FDA plans to limit amount of salt allowed in processed foods for health reasons
I spoke with Harkin's office and this is what the babe manning the phones told me:
The bill is for as much for environmental reasons as health reasons.
By reducing salt in our food, our stool production will be up to 15% softer and this would allow for faster fragmentation of the mass. That is critical to reducing the amount of double flushing necessary for the smaller toilet tanks mandated by Congress. Billions of gallons of potable water would be saved over the decades.
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Excuse me....dammit.....my BS detector went off and I can't stop it.
I maybe in the minority, but I am not too against the idea of setting limits to salt in food. A lot of our food has salt in it that can lead to health problems.
Try turning it around. You're probably pointing it at yourself.
Such ****ing bull****.
If I want to limit the salt I eat, then *I* will limit the salt I eat. I sure as **** don't need the government to do it for me.
I maybe in the minority, but I am not too against the idea of setting limits to salt in food. A lot of our food has salt in it that can lead to health problems.
It's really hard to take the salt out of food.
Then make other choices.
It's really hard to take the salt out of food.
Lord you conservatives are so prickly sometimes.
I'm assuming you're okay with the government limiting the amount of ammonia in ground beef due to associated health problems?
It's really easy to not eat foods that are salty. But sometimes I just want a damned bag of funions.
You don't have an expectation of ingesting ammonia when you eat a hamburger.
Ew. :2sick1:
Again with the ammonia example. I mean, it's also really easy to grind your own beef. You can always add salt. And ammonia, if that's the way you roll.
And yet you do anyway. Haven't watched Food, Inc I see.
Lord you conservatives are so prickly sometimes.
I'm assuming you're okay with the government limiting the amount of ammonia in ground beef due to associated health problems?
Ammonia isn't edible. Why would you find ammonia in your ground beef?
Eight years ago, federal officials were struggling to remove potentially deadly E. coli from hamburgers when an entrepreneurial company from South Dakota came up with a novel idea: injecting beef with ammonia.
Moon said:Salt is a nutrient required to survive. Is ammonia?
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