If we had high speed rail we could stop funding the foreign salt barrons as we reach peak salt.
...I just laid in another 50 pounds today from our local feed store...they had plenty on hand...getting ready for Fall hog killing and folks salting down hams.
If it doesn’t get outlawed by these asshats in congress.
oops! salt is illegal in NY.
Old folks like myself know it as a preservative and iodized salt as a necessity. It was 10 cents a box 60 years ago (March of Dimes)....now it's all the way up to 50 cents!!
A woman with a foster child with eating disorders was just convicted of killing the kid because he ate the salt and died.
Everything is toxic. Everything.
If you consume enough of it.
Of course, if you completely cut out salt, you will also die.
So somewhere in there is a balance that works well for humans.
BTW, with salt water and electrolysis, you can make bleach. Salt+processing=bleach. Don't drink bleach either. But in the right quantity, it can save your life.
/johnny
Didn’t Gandhi bring the British colonial rule in India to a halt by making salt?!
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Ping.
In an emergency, as long as you have plenty of water, then salt can be used for constipation.
Preparedness/Survival ping!
“Salt is the most common and readily available nonmetallic mineral in the world.”
Huh?
Not even close.
I don’t know what the rest of the article was saying because the kindergarten trained writers and editors got something so obviously wrong.
Cut some raw steak into 1" x 1" x whatever length strips. Spray them down good with white wine vinegar. Roll in coarse salt, then in black pepper, then in ground coriander. Put into the fridge overnight.
Then, the next day, put a string across some air-conditioned room in your home, high up so the pets don't get your biltong. Bend paper clips into S-hooks, and hook the meat on the string (you may need knots in the string so it doesn't slide around). Wait a couple of weeks. When the meat is brittle enough to break, it's ready. Wipe the coating off, and put the meat in a tight-lidded container or ziplock bag.
It's kind of a dry pickling method, but biltong can be eaten by itself, cold, or be used in a stew.
I think the most common use of salt is it’s use for rubbing into wounds (other peoples’ wounds, that is).
Killing leeches