He admitted nothing of the sort, you condescending robot. That’s just a twisted and ridiculous reading of what he said.
And it’s idiotic to entertain the notion that this bill has any chance of passing. My main guess is that this guy is trying for satire. Unfortunately, some people wouldn’t recognize satire if it bit them on the butt.
It passed in 2006, and was rescinded in 2008. Take that, New York City!
(Full disclosure: I’m a vegetarian, but I don’t think that legislation like that is the way to change minds.)
A salt weapons?
All your salt is belong to us.
Obligatory, sorry…
I certainly wouldn’t. On the other hand, if it bit me on the tit, I probably would 'cause it was right there in front of me.
What I was going to say; smoking and eating salt aren’t equivalent. Also unlike salt, tobacco is addictive; that undercuts all the arguments defending it in the name of free choice. No, people are not smoking out of free choice; they are under at least some compulsion due to the nature of the stuff.
One is a nutrient that tastes good, and you’ll die without at least some; the other is an addictive drug that affects other people who don’t wish to partake. And smells awful to boot; salt’s odorless.
I’ve also heard it called a “white mutiny”.
That’s actually interesting if the correlation is real. But a choice between Parkinson’s and lung cancer ain’t really much of a choice.
That’s the term I’ve heard before. I was thinking reverse mutiny, but that couldn’t be right.
He who controls the salt, controls the universe - Paul Moadib (however it’s spelled)
Only scary if you’re a slug.
KittenKat, snerk!
Yeah, all those countries with UHC have banned salt, haven’t they?
In Soviet Russia, salt salts you!
Wow, this is hilariously stupid!
It’s for the children. If it will save even one child’s life, isn’t it worth doing?
Not some of the kids I know.
Seeing as how this bill became a nationwide joke overnight, it is not going to pass. I bet it doesn’t come up for a vote, actually. Ortiz probably did want to draw attention to diet and health care costs, but if you look at his Facebook page he seems to be backing away from his own bill. He now says he’s fine with salt used in cooking, but not as an additive. I wonder if you can use a grain of salt to split a hair.
This is beautiful.
Or my dirty martini? My olives! My pickles! My brine!
And don’t get me started on edamame!
Why not ban wrenches in auto shops? Or scalpels in operating rooms? Those are potentially dangerous too, regardless of them being essential to their professions!
So you won’t be able to use salt in a recipe, unless the recipe calls for the use of salt? I guess that covers most bases.