[Strangelet]

Originally Posted by dubman

so, in my mind, when slippery slop (ha, pun) arguments can be used to substantiate and give equal weight to both reasonable conjecture and outright conspiracy, it does turn into an easy device rather than anything i want to seriously think about.

This is the same city that put the kabosh on trans fats. This is more than an argument it's emperical at this point. So really the burden is on you to argue salt in itself isn't an absurd overreach. I also think it shows a dramatically undeserved trust in government go along with the salt crusade when it's merely a condiment on industrial overly processed poison that all comes from the same warehouse and microwaved to taste