Ummm, chips with salt, nuts with salt, everything with salt. What a wonderful natural resource. Salt was once used for money. If it still was how rich we would all be. According to the Salt Institute 240 Million metric tons of salt are produced worldwide each year. Much is used for human consumption, but salt is also used for animal nutrition, highway safety, water softening and other industrial uses.

It is hard to imagine how much salt makes up 240 metric tons, so I broke it down for you. It is 8,465,760,000,000 ounces. Okay I know! Well how about this? If you put 3 ounces of salt in a standard shaker 1 inch in diameter and placed them in a straight line it would be 44 million miles. Two years supply would almost reach from the Earth to the Sun.

I could be wrong so please do the math and prove me wrong.