Nanny is at it again:
Salt pots on the dinner table should be removed to help improve children’s diets, a government minister has said.
Asked about cutting salt in children’s food, Baroness Thornton said “great progress” had been made, but much of it boiled down to taste.
Children got used to seeing salt at meals and peers should commit to “no salt pots on their tables”, she said.
Why can’t these meddling bastards just shut the fuck up and leave us alone? As a child, I was used to salt and pepper on the table and still like the odd sprinkle of salt. This is no one’s business but mine. If I want salt on the table, I will damn well have it and I’ll not be deterred by “and what about the chiiiillllddrreeeen?” bollocks either. Parents are responsible for ensuring that their progeny understand the principle of moderation in all things; not the government. It is none of the government’s fucking business.
Labour peer – and crime fiction writer Baroness Rendell – had demanded to know what the government was doing about reducing salt intake in children’s food.
What they should be doing, is nothing whatsoever, but given the interfering busy-body nature of this bunch of control freaks, that is a hope too far.
Jesus, but I hate these bastards more than I’ve ever hated anything in my life.
If I burst a blood vessel, it won’t be a consequence of too much salt in my diet, that’s for sure.
Salt is perfectly OK if you get the balance right…
For every shake of salt, you need two grinds of pepper – preferably from an electric pepper grinder* – and three sprinkles of vinegar. Get the proportions wrong and those deep fried chips could cause serious damage.
* I didn’t realise there was such a thing, but by fuck do I want one now!
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I have noticed in the past few weeks salt sachets have been removed from my university staff dinnig room and replaced with just one sea salt mill at the till and sachets of “lo Salt”. The contractor is the same as in many schools and Jamie Oliver’s bete noir last year, Scolarest. So maybe the edict has already gone out to schools suppliers.
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One could also say the ‘little brothers and sisters’ prove consequence and actionability. Already in this article from October 23rd ‘Zero tolerance on salt’ is one of six ‘political priorities’ mentioned:
Food manufacturers would be banned from adding salt to processed foods which is a major cause of high blood pressure. This would hand control of the salt content to the consumer who could choose to “opt out” of the healthy product by adding salt at the table.
ban, control, “opt out” – and they would call this ‘libertarian paternalism’.
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