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January 12, 2009
British Food Police Regulate Leftovers
Britain's headlong plunge into dadaist totalitarianism continues:
Householders are to be visited by officials offering advice on cooking with leftovers, in a Government initiative to reduce the amount of food that gets thrown away.
Home cooks will also be told what size portions to prepare, taught to understand "best before" dates and urged to make more use of their freezers. …
The officials will be called "food champions".
The cost to British taxpayers of this door to door campaign, if it is applied to the whole country, would be "tens of millions of pounds."
The State takes an interest in what people do with their leftovers because according to moonbat ideology, wasted food causes global warming. Officials will further demonstrate their solicitude for Gaia by cluttering every address they call at with fliers denouncing food waste.
If nagging isn't enough to make British subjects finish their vegetables, "food champions" will transition from advising to enforcing.
The reason the right to bear arms comes second only to freedom of expression and religion is that we need weapons to respond appropriately if government thugs barge into our homes to regulate our eating habits. As Leonardo Da Vinci showed his genius by observing:
It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.
If current Nanny State insanity is the beginning, it would be better to go down fighting than live to see the end.
Hat tip: The Belmont Club; on a tip from V the K.
Posted by Van Helsing at January 12, 2009 8:54 AM
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precisely why every home should have a dog or a pig - they'll eat just about any leftovers. we've even had a couple of dogs who like salad. well, if it was smothered in bleu cheese or ranch dressing!
we compost so not much goes to waste around here.
Posted by: nanc at January 12, 2009 9:15 AM
If the Brits are going to be mandating Big Brother stupidity on their citizens...they should forget the food thing and focus on dental care.
Posted by: Hillman at January 12, 2009 9:20 AM
If you don't eat your meat, you can't have any pudding. How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?
Posted by: Kristy at January 12, 2009 9:28 AM
"Food Champions"? Try Food Fascists!
Posted by: Henry at January 12, 2009 9:38 AM
I asked in the open thread when this was first introduced. Is there a line somewhere, when crossed, would cause the Britains to rise up and unshackle themselves from Nanny? I'm beginning to wonder.
It's everyone's PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY and SELF INTEREST to manage their food budget efficiently, such as having leftover dinners for lunch, and practicing FIFO. Do the nannies think I'm too stupid to manage such a task?
Posted by: Karin at January 12, 2009 10:00 AM
"It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end."
I think we're already near the end.
Posted by: Paul at January 12, 2009 10:01 AM
Orwell got a lot of things right except for the minor fact that this insanity comes from the left, not the right.
I've got a leftie friend who actually believes and tries to argue that conservative ideals are a greater threat to liberty and freedom than liberalism. When I go down the list of nannyisms imposed by enlightened progressive policies into our culture, all he can do is come back with the Patriot Act (with no actual examples of losses in the real world), Gitmo, and continuous, deranged Bush hatred.
It's 'the tyranny exercised for the the good of its victims' that C.S. Lewis talked about. This stuff never ends.
Posted by: lvb-rocks at January 12, 2009 10:05 AM
"We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times ... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK." Barack Obama
Conservatives better stand up now, while it's still allowed.
Posted by: matt at January 12, 2009 11:33 AM
Just be glad we won our independence from those british wuusietards otherwise we would be having those FOOD FREAKS comming into our homes and forcing us to abide by the rules rale down by a bunch of parlamenrary knuklehads
Posted by: Spurwing Plover at January 12, 2009 12:30 PM
And Spurwing, I wonder what our founding fathers would think about their old Britain now. Or their new world, too.
All of those revolutionary soldiers died to escape the Limey Loonies. In respect for them, we must fight too.
Posted by: Karin at January 12, 2009 12:59 PM
Sending people door-to-door? Couldn't this have been handled by booklets placed in mailboxes? Certainly it would have been less intimidating than a face-to-face encounter with a government hireling.
Posted by: KHarn at January 12, 2009 5:02 PM
Some green monbat nit wits have come up with some stupid thing they call THE EARTH HOUR in which they want us all to turn off our electricity for one hour over the go green poppycock PHOOIE ON THE ECO-FREAK MOONBATS AND SCREW THE EARTH HOUR
Posted by: Spurwing Plover at January 12, 2009 7:27 PM
It's times like these I'm glad I'm a firm believer in the 2nd amendment. Each day, I become surer and surer that I will have to use force to preserve my constitutional rights.
Posted by: Militiaman at January 12, 2009 9:03 PM
Please let me know when THE EARTH HOUR will be so I can turn on every goddamned light in the house.
Posted by: Jim - PRS at January 13, 2009 1:39 AM
