Reply #78: rubbish [View All]

[paulsby]

my recommendation is not that we do NOTHING

my recommendation is that we don't cede power to govt. to LIMIT OUR CHOICES AND OUR FREEDOMS

there are plenty of things we can do

we can educate ourselves and others.

we can use church groups, community groups, schools, etc. to teach about proper nutrition

we can encourage doctors to stop just treating symptoms and work at, and help patients, work at CAUSES

nannystaters like you will always use stuff like this to increase govt. power and decrease choice. fuck... that.

keep your taxes off my sour pickles (although i primarily make them on my own. hard to find a good sour pickle in seattle. \)

and my gravlax (ditto)

and my pretzels, etc.


"if a given substance does harm when ingested to excess, what should government do about it? Nothing?"

ANY substance, and i include water, when ingested to excess doers harm.

iirc, it was hippocrates who said 'all things are poison in sufficient dose'

french onion soup has metric assloads of salt.

so do LOTS of other expensive cuisines.

here's a hint.


MOD-ER-A-TION

and stop using this crap as an excuse to increase the power of govt. over the most intimate details of our lives. and here's a hint. what we choose to put in our mouths is one of the few things that we have near complete control over, AND must accept the consequences thereof.

i choose to eat very healthily and with an eye towards performance. you can choose to be healthy or a fat fuck. just don't go whining to me and blaming govt. or corporations. NEIHTER have the power to stuff food down your gullet. that's your power, and you reap the consequences of bad decisions

there is nothing preventing a person from buying an entire container of morton salt (when it rains, it pours) and dumping it in their food. but we want to micromanage how much salt a restaurant can put in their soup, or god forbid their pickles, lox, salted salmon, etc.

patronize those restaurants that offer low sodium stuff On the menu, and ime, most restaurants will make any # of dishes w/o salt IF YOU REQUEST it.

keep govt. the fuck out of my bedroom and my salt shaker