Hide your salt!

Last month, I warned you about the PETA type folks coming after your catfish. While you're hiding that freezer full of filets, you better find a hole to bury some salt in. The government is on the way to outlawing salt, and they're doing it discriminatorily.

The Agriculture and Health and Human Services departments say that people who are 51 years old or older, all African-Americans, and those with high blood pressure, diabetes, and/or chronic kidney disease should cut the amount of sodium they eat daily to half a teaspoon. The Food and Drug Aministration is going to further that cause by pressuring food industry businesses to reduce the amount of salt in their products. If the pressure doesn't work, the industry will be forced to let the government dictate its recipes. Margo Wootan, director of nutrition policy at the Center for Science in the Public Interest, said the FDA will have to take action for the companies to reduce enough salt to matter.

Our forefathers are sitting in heaven shaking their heads in disbelief. Who would have thought that our government "of the people" would ever get so out of control as to tell us what we may and may not enjoy at our dinner tables? Catfish yesterday, salt today -- what food will they outlaw next?

"Americans urged to slash the salt." The Dallas Morning News; February 1, 2011; p. 1A.