The Democrats’ War on Bacon.

Salt, too.

Let me just add my name to the list of people visibly itching to bounce a salt shaker off of the FDA’s collective forehead:

The Food and Drug Administration is planning an unprecedented effort to gradually reduce the salt consumed each day by Americans, saying that less sodium in everything from soup to nuts would prevent thousands of deaths from hypertension and heart disease. The initiative, to be launched this year, would eventually lead to the first legal limits on the amount of salt allowed in food products.

…because, of course, the FDA has nothing better to do with its time.  Look, I understand that the nanny-state Left doesn’t trust its own judgment and ability to make informed decisions, and that’s fine.  In fact, I agree with them: I don’t trust their judgment or ability to make informed decisions, either.  But why do they insist on trying to interfere with my judgment or ability to make informed decisions? – Aside from them generally being annoying neo-Puritan gloom-magnets, of course.

At any rate, I can’t wait to see the FDA explain to the American people why they can’t have proper bacon anymore…

Moe Lane

Crossposted to RedState.

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  5. I am of two minds on this topic. On one hand, I don’t want people to tell me what I can eat. On the other hand I just discovered that a bottle of pink lemonade that I had bought contains, among other things, salt.

  7. This doesn’t apply to your or my decisions to use table salt. This applies to processed foods manufactured and/or packaged by corporations. They’re already regulating it. They’re just adjusting the levels.

  8. “On the other hand I just discovered that a bottle of pink lemonade that I had bought contains, among other things, salt.”

    So?

    Unless you’re one of the minority who is sensitive to salt, or have kidney problems, excess salt is just washed away.

  9. This reminds me, I have a rasher of Gwaltney’s finest bacon in the fridge and I really ought to cook it up soon. Mmmm. Bacon.

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