Posted on 11/19/2008 11:41:00 AM PST by nickcarraway
Mayor Bloomberg is marshaling forces for his next public-health crusade: less salt. Late last month, he quietly gathered health experts and food-industry reps at Gracie Mansion to lay out his plan to cut sodium levels in processed foods by 20 percent over the next five years. At the meeting, city health czar Thomas Frieden called high blood pressure, which is linked to excessive sodium intake, “the greatest public-health threat facing the city” and pressured the industry groups to sign on by the end of November, according to a memo written by one attendee, Scott Vinson of the National Council of Chain Restaurants, and obtained by New York. There won’t be any new regulation, the memo says, but restaurateurs will be encouraged to join a “voluntary” initiative. Frieden is also considering “whether it would be better to publicize lower-sodium efforts via a campaign, or whether that approach could turn off consumers who might be wary of the taste impact,” Vinson wrote. Officially, the city still isn’t talking. “We don’t have an initiative that’s well enough developed to talk about yet,” says a spokesman.
And to think, some “conservatives” actually thought this dictatorial little f’er would make a good president.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Bllomberg ought to be more worried that God will turn him into a pillar of salt for gazing on The Village and Soho.
What is it with these elite jerks?
They are nothing more than petty control freaks.
yeah salt, that’s the biggest problem in NY right now.
I found something that will take 20 years off a mans life and NY refuses to ban it.
Being GAY, being gay takes 20 years average off the mans life span
Weenies like this fool have no business in the Republican party.
Doesn’t his jacka** have anything else to do?
They can't even use “second hand salt” as an excuse. It's all about the naked exercise of power.
Who the hell is this little dingleberry who thinks he knows what’s good for me better than I do? And he’ll use the force of the State to compel me to knuckle under!
I’d cut down everything he’s done as mayor within a month.
This dirty weasel needs to be thrown out of office, NYC won’t survive until 2010.
Oh, puh-leeeeze! STDs, HIV, influenza, illegal-immigrant-borne diseases, and bio-terror threats, and he's worried about SALT???
It's only voluntary until it's mandatory, and then it's no fun anymore.
Probably the same ones who voted for Obamao.
He can force the reduction of salt usage with a "stroke of the pen." (But you already knew that. :-)
And Gloomturd’s permanent reign continues on....forever.
Ya get what ya vote for.
Enjoy your Nanny NYC.
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