As I noted during the Cheerios flap last year, this is the kind of irritating, intrusive nonsense that makes people weary of their government and every smarmy bureaucratic microbe in it.
And courtesy of MyFox New York, what could be more in your face than this piece of legislation currently before the New York Legislature
Some New York City chefs and restaurant owners are taking aim at a bill introduced in the New York Legislature that, if passed, would ban the use of salt in restaurant cooking.
“No owner or operator of a restaurant in this state shall use salt in any form in the preparation of any food for consumption by customers of such restaurant, including food prepared to be consumed on the premises of such restaurant or off of such premises,” the bill, A. 10129 , states in part.
The legislation, which Assemblyman Felix Ortiz , D-Brooklyn, introduced on March 5, would fine restaurants $1,000 for each violation.
“The consumer needs to make their own health choices. Just as doctors and the occasional visit to a hospital can’t truly control how a person chooses to maintain their health, neither can chefs nor the occasional visit to a restaurant,” said Jeff Nathan, the executive chef and co-owner of Abigael’s on Broadway. “Modifying trans fats and sodium intake needs to be home based for optimal health. Regulating restaurants will not solve this health issue.”
Like most sensible Americans, I’m coming to resent the open and unabashed encroachments of the nanny state. In the past, it used to be more subtle but since the advent of Hope ‘n Change it’s all out in the open.
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