First They Came For The Bacon...

By now, making fun of the Nanny Staters in Europe has become par for the course. But this time, those bastards have gone too far. They want to regulate bacon! Those nitwits want to lower the salty goodness in a slab of that processed pork.

But Big Bacon in England isn't going to go down without a fight.

But ham and bacon processors say the move will reduce the shelf life of products, and put customers off.  A 10-slice packet of ham contains just under two teaspoons of salt.

Claire Cheney, director-general of the Provision Trade Federation, representing leading processed meats companies and supermarkets said the targets were a potential health risk.

She told The Grocer magazine: 'If you have not got sufficient preservative in a product like ham you get pockets where the salt levels are too low to prevent the formation of the botulism toxin.

'This will force us to reduce the shelf life further and with that come serious food safety concerns, not least the risk of botulism.'

This is a travesty. We cannot let this assault on the greatest foodstuff to ever exist to go uncontested. And besides, that whole botulism thing is a bit of a downer as well.

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