RE: They came for my salt shaker and then my sugar bowl
Blankenhorn is right. I favor honest, free, competitive enterprise and consumer choice to regulation, but there isn't any rel competition or choice and something is drastically wrong when the amount of salt added in factories by large corporations that supply most groceries doubles since 1970 despite increased consciousness of excess salt during that recent generation. Very few foods are available "no salt added," and those that are available are unconscionably higher in price.
Not everything that increases the quarterly earnings of anything that calls itself a business enterprise to meet "expectations" and raise stock prices is either genuinely conservative or sound policy.
You can't tell how much salt or other additives are really in most canned or processed food. On one new label, I did see the other day that one common, cheap, meat product was 27% fat and a whopping 12% sodium, more like Great Salt Lake or the Dead Sea than even normal sea water. I forget the figures for sugar, [other] preservatives, and water. I like ham, which I am aware is salty, but am frustrated by labels that say "ham and water product" and don't tell us how much water is added at $4.00 a pound.
