August 31, 2009
Written by: Dick Hanneman
The U.S. salt industry is weathering the storm of the nation's economic recession according to national salt sales data released today by the Salt Institute, the industry's trade association. In the first six months of 2009, salt industry sales rose...
August 23, 2009
Written by: Dick Hanneman
Subtitled, "How changing the lives of women and girls in the developing world can change everything," NY Times columnist Nicholas D. Kristof equates the slavery issue of the 19th century and totalitarianism of the 20th century with the 21st...
August 18, 2009
Written by: Dick Hanneman
William McGurn's op ed in today's Wall Street Journal on "Harry Reid's 'Evil' Moment," brings to mind the ongoing similar campaign to de-legitimize dissent from the orthodoxy of salt reduction. McGrurn recalls the mainstream media outrage when U.S. presidents described...
August 6, 2009
Written by: Dick Hanneman
The UN Development Program (UNDP) recently published its fifth Arab Human Development Report reviewing the state of affairs in the Arab world. Recently returned from a global meeting on salt iodization in Cairo, I eagerly plumbed the report, particularly Chapter 6...