No Salt

(Buenos Aires, Argentina) Is this a nanny-state ploy to ostensibly protect the public or government favoritism in the marketplace to steer consumers to particular products? Or maybe a little of both?

Readers can decide.

Restaurants in Buenos Aires province, Argentina’s richest and most densely populated, have agreed to take salt shakers off their tables to help combat high blood pressure.

The Buenos Aires Health Ministry launched this initiative with an accord supported not only by those in the restaurant business but by the provincial bakers’ union, whose members will make and promote products low in sodium.

Heh.