Salt is the newest target of the Food Fascists. My most hated food fascist, Michael Jacobson, of the dreadfully totalitarian Center for Science in the Public Interest, says that Americans are exceeding the federally-recommended limits of salt in their daily diets, and this excessive behavior is unacceptable.

“Clearly, salt should be considered generally recognized as dangerous, not safe,” Jacobson said.

Jacobson is working to have salt categorized as a “dangerous” food additive so that it can be subjected to stricter regulations by the Nanny State. Meanwhile, bureaucrats in the FDA are sitting around trying to figure out how to regulate salt while they develop “educational programs” to teach Americans how to, er, use salt correctly.

NOTE: Remember, Michael Jacobson is the same guy that brought us trans fat after he launched a crusade against palm oil many years ago, and it was replaced by partially-hydrogenated oil. Then he moved to ban trans fat, and even the American Heart Association opposed that ban because it would result in the substitution of oils high in saturated fat. Read that here.