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UK Food Police: “’By hitting people at home, rather than in supermarkets, we can get inside their lives”

Posted by Duane Lester on Jan 26th, 2009 • Clicks

The United Kingdom, the once great country, has decided to send people around during dinner prep to hassle its citizens about wasting food. They have been dubbed “the Food Police”:

In a trial in six local authorities across Herefordshire and Worcestershire, the officials have been recruited on full-time contracts to visit an estimated 24,500 homes dispensing dietary advice and tips on how best to reduce the estimated one-third of all food bought which is thrown away.

They will call at homes throughout the day, including lunchtimes and in the early evening, when many people will be busy preparing dinner.

If successful, the eight week trial could be rolled out to other authorities around the country.

Each official, dispatched to the streets after one day of training, will be paid between £7.43 and £8.49 per hour, with a bonus for working on a Saturday.

If all 25 million households in the UK were visited in the same way, 8,000 officials would be required at a cost of tens of millions of pounds.

It must be nice to live in a country where all the really big problems are solved and they can focus on stuff like this.

Of course, that country isn’t Great Britain. This has to be one of the most intrusive nanny state schemes I have ever heard of before. And Great Britain has some doozies, like not letting firemen climb ladders because it was “too dangerous.”

But the attitude displayed by this government drone is downright terrifying:

‘By hitting people at home, rather than in supermarkets, we can get inside their lives’, he said.

‘It’s only by knocking on doors you can find out what they are having for their tea and offer some healthy suggestions.’

This is one possible future for America, if we allow the nanny staters to continue to control what we do and where we do it. C.S. Lewis explained the tyranny of the state best when he wrote:

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

Don’t think it isn’t that bad here in America yet. It is getting worse every day. Look at what was banned in 2008: