British Food Police Now Entering Homes

To fight global warming, the British government has launched a pilot project to reduce household waste, specifically leftover food, by dispatching food police officials known as "food champions" to individual homes.

The seven-week, £30,000 trial scheme is funded by the Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) to be carried out by a private firm called Waste Watch.

The project is part of WRAP's "Love Food Hate Waste" campaign, which has so far cost £4 million. The organisation says food waste has a significant environmental impact, in terms of the carbon generated to grow, transport and package items and the cost of having to dispose of them.

It has calculated that stopping food waste could reduce the annual emission of carbon dioxide by 18 million tonnes - the same effect as taking one in five cars off the roads.

The "food champions", who will be employed by a private contractor, will advise householders to plan their shopping carefully so that they do not over-cater. They will explain the difference between "best before", "use by" and "sell by" dates, and will give out tips for home composting.

According to one Waste Watch food police official, Tim Burns, "Food waste has such a high impact on climate change and it is something we can all do something about." Consequently, householders will have to sit down and listen to government representatives tell them how to run their kitchens. Thankfully, food policemen will receive a day's-worth of training which the government believes makes them experts.

Opponents have claimed the idea is simply a nanny-state waste of money and resources. I suggest that the food waste program is merely a first step toward legislating the behavior of private citizens in their own kitchens. The Brits can logically expect food police advisors to be followed by private kitchen laws and law enforcement penalties.

Ominously, it's also logical to expect that government nanny-staters are even now designing a human waste reduction scheme, empowering a wipe and flush police force to enter citizens' bathrooms to dispense guidance to limit the amount and nature of substances entering sanitary sewers.

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