world salt supply

Who the hell knows Set, there ain't no regulation...

China is famous for its gourmet inclination, and salt production has been a source of huge wealth.

http://www.salt.org.il/china1.html

I think if i poop in my garden before planting, i can sell the produce as organic . . .

You probably could Set. To me, 'organic' means it contains carbon compounds, which pretty much covers everything.

Organic butter is from organic milk, which comes from organic cows, who are raised organic to ... well, all is standarisized here :wink:

Organic farming in the EU - Facts and figures PDF-file!

There could not be such a thing as "organic salt" for NaCl.

... which therefore we don't have in Europe :wink:

Re: world salt supply


let's hope not.

But if salt is a source of wealth, it means that salt is one of scarce resources, even though it exists in the sea water abundantly... an economic theory.

Ok I'll have to take a picture of the salt lagoons on the baja this summer.
We're talking heaping amounts of salt.

I don't know what the salt flats at Lake Eyre are considered to be. That's so big there's been land speed record attempts held there.

Salt is no longer a source of wealth. A very interesting book on the subject (human history as viewed through salt -- though this is loosely adhered to: the author also makes forays into the closely-related economies of fishing, whaling and spices, and the less closely related development of plumbing in medieval (by European standards) China):

hey thanks for your views guys
much appreciated

Starting from the 30,000 trillion tons under Michigan at three tons per life time of an average of ten billion humans, we are ok for a million life times. Total may be million times the amount under Michigan = ok for a trillion life times = 70 trillion years. The 3 tons is likely high as much of what we use eventually finds it's way back to the ocean as sodium ions and chloride ions. If we start using plated sodium as a structural metal, we might run out before the sun becomes a white dwarf in 5 billion years. Has any one successfully coated sodium by sintering, sputtering or some other process than electro plating? The fire hazard would be at least as bad as making war planes out of magnesium, but sodium alloys are reasonably strong by weight. I suggested plating as sodium becomes lye = sodium hydroxide in damp air, rapidly, even violently, in water. Neil

However it is still true that salt is economically scarce, i.e., it has positive value of price.

The book, "The Price of Salt" can be purchased for about $2.50 at this link. http://www.bookfinder.com/search/?isbn=1562800035&st=xl&ac=qr&src=dir

This is pretty much off-topic, but did you know that back in the 1980's or so, a group of investors came quite close to taking control of the world's supply of silver? They (the Bass family from TX, as I recall) ran out of money before they could pull it iff.
I recall reading (but I can't cite any references) that in the 1800's someone attempted to take over the matchstick industry; not by controlling the underlying ingrediants but by taking over all all of the manufacturers.
A variation, I guess on "Water, water everywhere but not a drop to drink."

Ni-He-Za.
Nick and Helga Zakutin.
When I lived in Riverdale, and the hamburgers came to town, we used to go to the St. Lawrence Market to get Ni-He-Za butter and eggs. Haven't done that in ages. Very good butter.

There's been a lot goin' on at CooksTalk lately about smoked salt. Not sure I can really get into that.

The price of the fiction story varies from $2.39 to $17.72. Does the cheapest one sell first?

so obviously sea salt comes from the sea,where does table salt originate from????
i remember going to austria on a school trip in 1986 and visiting a salt mine,it was dark freezing cold and.........salty