Following my recent comments on salt, I’ve been contacted by folk in the USA who have been facing the same assault on salt.
Dear Longrider,
I am representing My Food My Choice (http://myfoodmychoice.org), a New York City-based grassroots coalition of consumers and businesses that promotes the advancement of consumer choice in the marketplace and an environment of economic vitality. I am writing to ask that you let your readers know about our petition to save our restaurants and dverse cuisine.
This coalition started because of the threat posed to our restaurants and shops by the National Salt Reduction Initiative launched recently by NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
Here is a link to our recent op-ed in the Gotham Gazette:http://www.gothamgazette.com/article/comm/20100126/212/3162. The petition has garnered a lot of grassroots support opposed to Bloomberg’s food police and nanny-state governance.
Your help circulating the petition would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
Orit Sklar
National Spokeswoman
My Food My Choice
MyFoodMyChoice.org
Good luck with that. And if you are in the US, maybe you should sign.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/11/business/11salt.html?scp=1&sq=citing%20hazard,%20new%20york%20says%20hold&st=cse
Some places arguably have it worse than us when it comes to food.
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Anything opposing food police is a step in the right direction.
Well, as New York derives so much of its money from international tourism, why shouls we ALL not sign?
Reduce your salt, we go to Quebec!
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Fair point, that.
I’m sure Québec will be next with the anti-salt initiatives, eh.