Salt should be regulated food additive, group says

Reuters ^ | 2/24/05 | Maggie Fox

[spunkets]

Salt ate my truck.

[azhenfud]

Salt is regulated - just like pepper, by the use of a shaker....;-)

[markman46]

and these A**Clowns represent the consumer just how, I know I sure didn't ask them to represent me.

[Abathar]

Ok, I will eat the greasy fries WITHOUT salt and that will make things all better, right?

[Guillermo]

LOL I knew before I clicked the thread that the "group" was CSPI!

Junk Scientists, all around us.

And the Left has the gall to say the Right ignores science.

[Redbob]

I owe all that I am today to salt, red meat, alcohol, and fatty foods!

[GeronL]

A consumer group sued the federal government on Thursday, saying that salt is killing tens of thousands of Americans and that regulators have done too little to control salt in food.

Is there NO limit on the courts?? Groups can now sue to force the government to make new laws??

[Vaquero]

geeze Sodium Chloride is a needed mineral and is a perfectly natural....we dont need Mono Sodium Glutimate..though....I would agree that if substances can be regulated, than that one would be on my hit list...its been getting me sick since I was kid and they stick it in every soup on the market...not to mention loads of other stuff. I dont venture anywhere near Chinese restaurants anymore...

[nothingnew]

I doubt I'll get sick from too much salt. More likely the opposite. What makes me sick are the people who think they have the right to regulate what I eat by government mandate. That raises my blood pressure way more than salt ever will.

FMCDH(BITS)

[anniegetyourgun]

You forgot chocolate. With that, you have the five food groups.

[Emmett McCarthy]

Well, I guess we'll just have to go after "Big Salt" the same way we went after "Big Tobacco" because we all know that there aren't enough wealthy trial lawyers yet.

[anniegetyourgun]

The CSPI is a leading cause of high blood pressure in America. It should be banned.

[azhenfud]

Before adequate refrigeration of seafood, fish were pickled in salt.

I still like to get my hands on salted mullet once and a while. A couple of those, a baked sweet potato, slaw, hush puppies, and sweetened iced tea is a treat!

[monkeyshine]

This is the DEA. Put down the salt shaker, step away from that T-Bone, and put your hands on your head!

I am sick to death of all this. There is almost nothing in this country that is not heavily regulated, licensed or taxed by the government. The only freedoms you have left are the freedoms to have sex with whomever you want and to abort as many babies as you can conceive.

Viva La Revolution!

[ladtx]

Water needs to be regulated also. I just heard of a frat pledge who OD'd on water. I certainly hope there is enough time to save us from ourselves.

[mewzilla]

Oh, fer cryin' out loud...

[KevinDavis]

Let get this staight, for years the left has been saying that the evil right wants to control our bodies, but yet they are the ones going around in telling people what to eat.. Am I missing something??? I think people should Mind their own business. I think we should ban busybodies..

[Tulsa Brian]

I wonder what the breaking point will be when people decide they can't stand this suicidal nonsense any longer?

[KevinDavis]

That is the only freedom the left wants you to have...