Stilton

You may remember that little campaign to reduce the salt in the nation’s diet?

That extremely stupid campaign as the body has its own salt regulation? Eat too much and you piss it away sort of thing?

But never mind, the health nazis have decided that you will eat less salt. So much so that:

The centuries-old recipe that gives Stilton, the "king of English cheeses", its distinctive flavour is under threat from the Government's anti-salt campaigners.
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The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has proposed cutting the salt in blue cheese to under 1.9 per cent but makers say Stilton typically needs around 2.5 per cent.

Talks with the FSA ended a few weeks ago and the watchdog is drawing up draft guidelines.
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Salt is added partly for taste, partly to drive out moisture and also to slow the development of bacteria.

Without salt, the curd "races away" and the resulting cheese is unpalatable and does not last well.
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The FSA said it was eager to reach a voluntary agreement with the Stilton makers but warned that mandatory limits were possible.

"We are responsible for finding a way of reducing the nation's salt and we have a target of six grams a day by 2010," a spokesman said.

"We have to find a way to do so while taking into account manufacturers' concerns about traditional recipes. Nobody is suggesting making products unpalatable but at some time we will have to weigh that against the health implications."

This is how we are governed. A few nitwits campaign for some fad about our food. A bureaucracy is set up, targets arranged, guidelines and talks appear. And at the end, as that last sentence points to, a form of food will be banned for no good reason.

Think I’m joking? Tried to buy cheese made from unpastuerised milk recently?

Why don’t they simply stick a sign on it saying "Lots of salt here"?

Because that wouldn’t lead to the employment of lots of Real Salt Officers perhaps?