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[Darvi]

Sea salt doesn't taste like miners' sweat.

[Nadaka]

The typical.method of harvesting sea salt for consumption is to use large solar evaporation ponds. It is slow, takes a lot of space, and is very weather sensitive. We mine salt because it is a cheaper and faster way to get salt.

[nenjin]

Also, as natural resource, there's enough mineable salt in the earth to supply the whole world for the next 1,000 years, or something insane like that. Which is why it costs fractions of a penny at weight.

[Zangi]

Thanks for the answers, asking cause of this...

*snip*

Other problem with desal is what to do with all the salt afterwards *snip*

[Mr. Palau]

Rerailing in progress:

I've always wondered why the Government has so much of that land. I mean sure most of the good land has already been sold but even tracks of desert are worth something right? Just sell it and use the money to do something, anything really. That land really just doesn't matter to the government, so why not do it so you have the money for something useful.

[Nadaka]

Rerailing in progress:

I've always wondered why the Government has so much of that land. I mean sure most of the good land has already been sold but even tracks of desert are worth something right? Just sell it and use the money to do something, anything really. That land really just doesn't matter to the government, so why not do it so you have the money for something useful.

Selling land is generally a bad idea for governments as a revenue source, better to lease.

[Frumple]

Why sell when you can lease? Ninja'd while adding things to pizza, bah.

Also, yeah, quite a lot is nature reserve stuff. America being America there's not much likelihood of stuff not government controlled not going to shit in semi-short order. Mind you, ol'US doesn't exactly have a monopoly on those sorts of shenanigans, but yeah.

[ChairmanPoo]

isn't rock salt lacking in iodine, though?

[Flying Dice]

isn't rock salt lacking in iodine, though?

Hence why it is generally iodized as part of the processing of it.

[G-Flex]

isn't rock salt lacking in iodine, though?

Salt in general doesn't, not naturally. It's added to table salt as an easy way to solve iodine deficiency.

[Mr. Palau]

isn't rock salt lacking in iodine, though?

Salt in general doesn't, not naturally. It's added to table salt as an easy way to solve iodine deficiency.

Yeah 'cause Iodine deficiency reduces your IQ by around 13 points, depending on severity of the deficiency. So goernments don't want their people to have lower IQ's so they add iodine to popular food or food additives like salt, which is in almost everything.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Er, no.

IQ isn't lowered or raised in any measurable way by much of anything. This is related to the fact that IQ is a horribly biased and subjective way of measuring human intelligence.

[nenjin]

The iodine requirements in humans are 90 μg/day in infants and children aged 0–6 years, 120 μg/day in prepubertal children, 150 μg/day in adolescents and adults and 200 μg/day in pregnant and lactating women (1, 2). When the physiological requirements of iodine are not met in a given population, a series of functional and developmental abnormalities occur, including thyroid function abnormalities and, when iodine deficiency is severe, endemic goiter and cretinism, endemic mental retardation, decreased fertility rate, increased perinatal death and infant mortality. These complications, which constitute a hindrance to the development of the affected populations, are grouped under the general heading of iodine deficiency disorders (IDD) (3). Based on the most recent evaluation (4), IDD currently represent a significant public health problem for 1571 million people in 118 countries. Twenty million of these are believed to be significantly mentally handicapped as a result of iodine deficiency (5), which, therefore, constitutes probably the...

Extract from: http://www.eje.org/content/132/5/542.short

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[Mr. Palau]

The iodine requirements in humans are 90 μg/day in infants and children aged 0–6 years, 120 μg/day in prepubertal children, 150 μg/day in adolescents and adults and 200 μg/day in pregnant and lactating women (1, 2). When the physiological requirements of iodine are not met in a given population, a series of functional and developmental abnormalities occur, including thyroid function abnormalities and, when iodine deficiency is severe, endemic goiter and cretinism, endemic mental retardation, decreased fertility rate, increased perinatal death and infant mortality. These complications, which constitute a hindrance to the development of the affected populations, are grouped under the general heading of iodine deficiency disorders (IDD) (3). Based on the most recent evaluation (4), IDD currently represent a significant public health problem for 1571 million people in 118 countries. Twenty million of these are believed to be significantly mentally handicapped as a result of iodine deficiency (5), which, therefore, constitutes probably the...

Extract from: http://www.eje.org/content/132/5/542.short

Guided by: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=iodine+consumption+benefits&hl=en&as_sdt=0&as_vis=1&oi=scholart&sa=X&ei=JRmCT4GsG-Xo0QGD6o3QBw&ved=0CBoQgQMwAA

Yeah Iodine deficeny is the biggest source of mental retardation.

[Lagslayer]

The iodine requirements in humans are 90 μg/day in infants and children aged 0–6 years, 120 μg/day in prepubertal children, 150 μg/day in adolescents and adults and 200 μg/day in pregnant and lactating women (1, 2). When the physiological requirements of iodine are not met in a given population, a series of functional and developmental abnormalities occur, including thyroid function abnormalities and, when iodine deficiency is severe, endemic goiter and cretinism, endemic mental retardation, decreased fertility rate, increased perinatal death and infant mortality. These complications, which constitute a hindrance to the development of the affected populations, are grouped under the general heading of iodine deficiency disorders (IDD) (3). Based on the most recent evaluation (4), IDD currently represent a significant public health problem for 1571 million people in 118 countries. Twenty million of these are believed to be significantly mentally handicapped as a result of iodine deficiency (5), which, therefore, constitutes probably the...

Extract from: http://www.eje.org/content/132/5/542.short

Guided by: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=iodine+consumption+benefits&hl=en&as_sdt=0&as_vis=1&oi=scholart&sa=X&ei=JRmCT4GsG-Xo0QGD6o3QBw&ved=0CBoQgQMwAA

Yeah Iodine deficeny is the biggest source of mental retardation.

The more you know...