The benevolent martinets over at President Obama's Food and Drug Administration have come to the conclusion that the American peasant is just too stupid to be able to read a food label and/or decide how they may wish to prepare food to their liking.
To combat this terrible turn of events, the Nanny-staters have taken it upon themselves to begin "a push to gradually cut the amount of salt Americans consume".
What would our Founders have to say about this continual micro-regulation of Americans who until quite recently were free to make choices for themselves, even if those selections happened to be bad ones? Let's hear directly from one of them:
"There is no position which depends on clearer principles than that every act of a delegated authority, contrary to the tenor of the commission under which it is exercised, is void. No legislative act, therefore, contrary to the Constitution, can be valid. To deny this would be to affirm that the deputy is greater than his principal; that the servant is above his master; that the representatives of the people are superior to the people themselves; that men acting by virtue of powers may do not only what their powers do not authorize, but what they forbid."
- Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 78
If only such leaders were alive today to put a stop to this utter nonsense.
(Thanks to online correspondent Doug Fiedor for the reference)
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I wonder if anyone is going to fight this as being unconstitutional?
Life, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness is in the constitution. Salt makes me happy, because it makes some of the food taste better.
One might also point out that, given the conditions at many major food processors, having a little bit of extra salt in processed food is a good thing for a very simple reason; one of the most powerful ways of stabilizing a runaway bowel and ending life-threatening "runs" is by the proper application of salt.
Of course, if the USDA were actually enforcing reasonable food safety laws, this wouldn't be an issue, but......
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