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Originally Posted by malloyd
$15 per ounce is ridiculous. That comes to something like $300 a year for enough salt just to keep a person *alive*.
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If nothing else in your diet has sodium in it, perhaps... humans die without salt, but salt doesn't just come from salt merchants. The most obvious source of salt is animal products (which include insects, modern western people keep forgetting that), but some kinds of (human edible) plants pick up salt from the soil too where present.
And where it's present in the soil, people
do eat soil - well, clay, usually; it's more pleasent and easier on the teeth. This is common behavior among the other great apes too.
Who manage to not die from sodium deprivation despite having no money to buy salt, I might add, along with all the other animals.
In some places you need to trade for salt (or salt-containing things) - particularly if animal protein isn't part of your diet. In all places and for all diets it's
nice to trade for salt because we're just as crazy about it as we are about sugar and fat.