Salt Ban

The control-you silliness continues:

MYFOXNY.COM - Some New York City chefs and restaurant owners are taking aim at a bill introduced in the New York Legislature that, if passed, would ban the use of salt in restaurant cooking.

"No owner or operator of a restaurant in this state shall use salt in any form in the preparation of any food for consumption by customers of such restaurant, including food prepared to be consumed on the premises of such restaurant or off of such premises," the bill, A. 10129 , states in part.

The legislation, which Assemblyman Felix Ortiz , D-Brooklyn, introduced on March 5, would fine restaurants $1,000 for each violation.

Another ready-fire-aim push to control how you live your life. If you have high blood pressure and you want to control it by drastically altering your salt intake, be my guest. (but even for people with high blood pressure, most aren't sensitive to salt, and reducing it will do little good) And what about us people who are happy with their blood pressure? Does the government have a right to dictate how we eat based on a half-baked nutritional theory?

If we let these stuck-hippie control freaks decide our diet, it won't be long before they tell us we can't shoot our TV sets, car-joust, or make potato cannons.

Really, their science is awfully thin.