Socialists Say: NO MORE SALT FOR THE PEASANTS!

[furnishedowner]

tatertot,
Surprise, surprise!  No, I can't find where the government has mandated that iodine be put into salt.  With other countries, yes.  And new legislation in some 3rd World countries.

But the Morton Salt Company started doing this in 1924.  In apparent response to the public health needs.

There is a "Goiter Belt" which runs from Western N.Y. through the Great Lakes Basin to the Rockies.  Also the Pacific Northwest is somehow also deficient with iodine in the soil.

From Wikipedia...
There is a worldwide iodine deficiency that affects 2 BILLION PEOPLE and is THE LEADING CAUSE OF PREVENTABLE MENTAL RETARDATION WORLDWIDE!

And it's such a simple fix...iodize ordinary cooking salt.  What a tragic outcome for the affected people in iodine-poor lands.

Or maybe tragic for us?  A 2008 study showed that 53% of the iodized salt samples checked by the US Food and Drug Administration were inadequately iodized.  The FDA is starting to get concerned, especially since many pre-natal vitamins do not contain iodine in any form.

Is mental retardation increasing in the Goiter Belt?  What an interesting study that would be.  You Goiter-Belters...are you as smart as you used to be?

I'm gonna make sure that Morton Iodized Salt is in my cupboard.  If it rains, it pours.

Furnishedowner

[Bluemoon06]

I don't need the government telling me what I can and can't eat, thank you very much.

What are you talking about.  That is what the government does...tell you what you can and can't do.  I have a car that will go 150 miles per hour but they won't let me drive it more that 70 maybe 75 miles per hour...and even if I an driving it 25 miles per hour I have to wear a seatbelt.  They won’t even let me text while driving through a school zone.

They also tell me I can't beat my wife.  Even if she doesn’t cook my pigs feet with extra salt like I like them.  If my kid turns out rotten I can’t knock him off and start over again because the government is in my business.

If I want to eat mercury in my diet the government won’t let me.  What about drinking polio water, they won’t let me do that either.  Evil government.

I watch too much TV but when I watched the movie Men in Black and the Will Smith character said to the Tommy Lee Jones character that people are too smart for that.  The Tommy Lee Jones Character said no a person is smart people are dumb.  That is true.  If left to our own devices we will kill ever third person on the planet.  We have to be controlled.  That is what government is for.

[Hoosier4life2005]

Government job is to protect people from other people (murder, speeding in a car, drinking and driving, beating your wife), not people from themselves (doing drugs within your own home, eating salt).