Food Police At It Again

So, you like salt on your food? If a certain “advocacy group” has their way, you’ll be getting less of it:

…the CSPI renewed a lawsuit first filed in 1983 to ask federal courts to force the Food and Drug Administration to declare sodium a food additive instead of categorizing it as “generally recognized as safe.” This would give the agency the authority to set limits for salt in foods.

“There is no way the FDA can look at the science and say with a straight face that salt is ‘generally recognized as safe,”‘ CSPI executive director Michael Jacobson said in a statement.

I don’t know why people think that it’s the government’s job to save them from themselves. Take some personal responsibility. If you have high blood pressure, take it easy on the salt.  If you don’t, it’s your own fault, and you’ll get what’s coming to you.

I, for one, don’t want the government telling me how much salt I can intake. And I certainly don’t need the CSPI acting on my behalf, thank you very much. If I want to eat SALTines, I will eat them. And I will eat them in a boat, and I will eat them with a goat. And I will eat them on a train, and I will eat them in the rain…

UPDATE: After careful consideration, I have decided to refrain from eating saltines in the rain. And in the plain. Especially in Spain.

UPDATE II: Drudge picked up the story. Same link as above.