09 Aug The War on Salt
Who will win the war on salt?
Salt wasn’t a thing before the agricultural revolution 5000 years ago. Since, salt has made it’s debut, it has been the cause of war and destruction to human health and life on earth.
How did this all come about?
Before humans began living in cities, we were mostly nomadic shepherds. Shepherds didn’t need salt to preserve their food because they just killed a sheep or milked it daily to get all the healthy live nutrition they needed. For those who think we need added salt in our diets for health, think twice.
There is plenty of Sodium, Potassium, Iodine, and Magnesium in animal foods, seafood, and milk that no addition is needed. However, when we switch over to a vegetarian diet, now we become deficient in these minerals.
When Pharaohs began enslaving humans, it was a financial decision to feed the slaves grains and to store food in salt. The Pharaohs could now control the food and thus control the people.
The monopoly over salt, food, and people spread across the globe to rulers of every country – to China, to India, and finally to Europe and the New World. Salt monopolies we not broken up until the 20th Century, initiated by Gandhi. It’s been big business and high stakes for the winners and slave wages and bad health for the losers.
The word “salary” comes from the Latin word salt. Soldiers and workers got paid in salt.