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FDA plans to limit amount of salt allowed in processed foods for health reasons

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FDA plans to limit amount of salt allowed in processed foods for health reasons

The Food and Drug Administration is planning an unprecedented effort to gradually reduce the salt consumed each day by Americans... yada yada yada... to protect the idiots... yada, yada, yada.

I spoke with Harkin's office and this is what the babe manning the phones told me:

The bill is for as much for environmental reasons as health reasons.
By reducing salt in our food, our stool production will be up to 15% softer and this would allow for faster fragmentation of the mass. That is critical to reducing the amount of double flushing necessary for the smaller toilet tanks mandated by Congress. Billions of gallons of potable water would be saved over the decades.

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FDA plans to limit amount of salt allowed in processed foods for health reasons



I spoke with Harkin's office and this is what the babe manning the phones told me:

The bill is for as much for environmental reasons as health reasons.
By reducing salt in our food, our stool production will be up to 15% softer and this would allow for faster fragmentation of the mass. That is critical to reducing the amount of double flushing necessary for the smaller toilet tanks mandated by Congress. Billions of gallons of potable water would be saved over the decades.

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Really? They are actually trying to control our bowel movements now?
 
Nobody believes preserving potable water is important?
 
FDA plans to limit amount of salt allowed in processed foods for health reasons



I spoke with Harkin's office and this is what the babe manning the phones told me:

The bill is for as much for environmental reasons as health reasons.
By reducing salt in our food, our stool production will be up to 15% softer and this would allow for faster fragmentation of the mass. That is critical to reducing the amount of double flushing necessary for the smaller toilet tanks mandated by Congress. Billions of gallons of potable water would be saved over the decades.

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Excuse me....dammit.....my BS detector went off and I can't stop it.
 
I maybe in the minority, but I am not too against the idea of setting limits to salt in food. A lot of our food has salt in it that can lead to health problems.
 
I maybe in the minority, but I am not too against the idea of setting limits to salt in food. A lot of our food has salt in it that can lead to health problems.

Yeah I don't mind. We limit the amount of a lot of chemicals in food for health reasons.
 
Its all just political games funneling to insider traders. Everything.
 
Such ****ing bull****.

If I want to limit the salt I eat, then *I* will limit the salt I eat. I sure as **** don't need the government to do it for me.
 
Such ****ing bull****.

If I want to limit the salt I eat, then *I* will limit the salt I eat. I sure as **** don't need the government to do it for me.

It's really hard to take the salt out of food.
 
I maybe in the minority, but I am not too against the idea of setting limits to salt in food. A lot of our food has salt in it that can lead to health problems.

I've recently begun the process of lowering my salt intake. I didn't even need the government to do it for me. Amazing, no?

In other words, I think it's a good idea, but not something the government should be mandating.
 
Then make other choices.

Lord you conservatives are so prickly sometimes.

I'm assuming you're okay with the government limiting the amount of ammonia in ground beef due to associated health problems?
 
Lord you conservatives are so prickly sometimes.

I'm assuming you're okay with the government limiting the amount of ammonia in ground beef due to associated health problems?

You don't have an expectation of ingesting ammonia when you eat a hamburger.
 
It's really easy to not eat foods that are salty. But sometimes I just want a damned bag of funions.

Ew. :2sick1:

Again with the ammonia example. I mean, it's also really easy to grind your own beef. You can always add salt. And ammonia, if that's the way you roll.
 
Ew. :2sick1:

Again with the ammonia example. I mean, it's also really easy to grind your own beef. You can always add salt. And ammonia, if that's the way you roll.

Ammonia isn't edible. Why would you find ammonia in your ground beef?
 
Lord you conservatives are so prickly sometimes.

I'm assuming you're okay with the government limiting the amount of ammonia in ground beef due to associated health problems?

Why is it "prickly" to think people should be responsible for the choices they make?

Salt is a nutrient required to survive. Is ammonia?
 
Ammonia isn't edible. Why would you find ammonia in your ground beef?

Oh you don't know? MSgt hates when I "educate" him about food. :lol:

Eight years ago, federal officials were struggling to remove potentially deadly E. coli from hamburgers when an entrepreneurial company from South Dakota came up with a novel idea: injecting beef with ammonia.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/31/us/31meat.html

Mmmm! It's actually only present in fast food burgers and school lunch burgers, but the government still regulates the amount of ammonia that can be present. Not very well I might add, a couple prisons were sold hamburger that smelled like cleaning supplies.
 
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