“Absolute lunacy but what do you expect from ‘red’ Ed Miliband who calls himself “Energy secretary””
Not lunacy, but simple logic for the Left: Salt makes food taste good, especially meat, so ban it (or at least try).
Yes, but the volume of salt is used for other purposes.
For example, my company sells hundreds of trucks each fall and winter in the north east of rock salt and calcium chloride for ice melter products.
Every municipal water treatment facility buys solar salt to treat their tap water.
The only real large producer of salt is Saudi Arabia.
They practically give it away as a byproduct of their deslalinazation plants.