Reading from news:rec.food.cooking,
Stu > posted:

> The way it's worded "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 ", means they shall not use to prepare. But
> what about the pre-packaged products they use, they didn't make the
> product , so should they be in contravention using it? This goes
> through and there will be a great number of manufacturering companies
> going bankrupt, including many restaurants.

That could be the point. Honestly, I don't have any limits on what my
imagination came come up with when I think of what people will do for
money. So imagine this:

Target the small restaurants that prepare everything fresh. Forbid the
use of salt in their restaurants, knowing that a salt-addicted populace
will simply stop going to them and instead start going to the large chain
restaurants who have less control over what goes into their food since
they buy much of it already prepared for fast assembly. Run the small
restaurants out of business, giving people no choice but to either cook at
home, or go to major chain restaurants, run by big corporations. Whether
you enact laws to force people to eat at those restaurants, or manipulate
them into eating there through strange laws and goofy tactics, it still
boils down to fascism:

fascism

1. [F-] the doctrines, methods, or movement of the
Fascisti

2. [sometimes F-] a system of government characterized
by rigid one-party dictatorship, forcible
suppression of opposition, private economic
enterprise under centralized governmental control,
belligerent nationalism, racism, and militarism,
etc.

3. A) a political movement based on such policies b)
fascist behavior: See also NAZI


Fascisti

1. An Italian political organization which seized power
and set up a fascist dictatorship (1922-43) under
Mussolini


Well, the very epitome of fascism is telling people they cannot eat salt
in their food. That they're doing it by using legislation against
restaurants is simply a "backdoor" to direct dictatorial fascism. Plus,
you have heard the stories before of major corporations buying off
politicians to get their own way. Make your competition (small,
family-owned restaurants) illegal, and watch even more money roll into
your coffers. The same tactic was used by Dow Chemical Company and other
corporations when they got involved in making hemp and marijuana illegal.

Also, in the news recently was a story about a bake sale going on at a
school. The school forbade parents from baking their own goodies for the
bake sale, which is how it's always traditionally been done. They were
only allowed to sell things like Pop Tarts, Doritos and other prepackaged
junk foods.

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/20...os-may-be-o-k/

So on one hand, they say things like Doritos and Pop Tarts are what's
making us fat, so to combat childhood obesity, they ban home-baked goods
(which are going to be less likely to have strange additives in them), and
give the okay for the same foods they say are bad for you.

"No homemade or unpackaged items are on the list of
+IBw-approved+IB0- foods because +IBw-it+IBk-s impossible to know what the
content is, or what the portion size is,+IB0- said Kathleen
Grimm, the deputy chancellor for infrastructure and
portfolio planning, who oversees the regulation."

That's like saying it's better to eat food with corn syrup, high fructose
corn syrup, and partially hydrogenated soybean oil that you KNOW is in
there, as opposed to a home-baked brownie which is most likely going to
have just flour, butter, sugar, eggs, chocolate or cocoa powder, and some
baking powder. It's ridiculous.

Plus, what are they /not/ saying, while spilling all the reasons they
think are good? Did the school or school officials get some kind of
kickback from the companies that make these foods "approved" for bake
sales?

If they wanted to come up with a good reason for not allowing home-baked
goods, I would have been more moved by the possibility of poisoning or
lacing foods with spanish fly or something. The people involved with all
these rules are going nuts.

Damaeus