China apparently facing food shortages, introduces bill to regulate overeating

American Thinker ^ | 24 Dec, 2020 | Thomas Lifson

[MtnClimber]

China’s high tech surveillance state will be watching how much people eat, according to provisions of a bill just introduced and sure to pass its rubber stamp National People’s Congress legislative body. Writing at Breitbart, Frances Martel is appropriately skeptical about the repeated official denials that food shortages have anything to do with the state’ss intusion into the most intimate details of life for its citizens.

China’s communist rubber-stamp legislature, the National People’s Congress (NPC), introduced a bill Tuesday that would mandate a government war against “food waste” that includes ordering guests at weddings and other public events to eat less.

The bill also demands regulation of online videos showing people, particularly young women, binge eating — an increasingly popular trend on Chinese social media.

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It may be hard for Americans to understand the role of food and public eating in the Chinese mind. Banquets are a major way to demonstrate conspicuous consumption and people think and talk about food a lot more than most Westerners. One common greeting when meeting someone on the street is, “Have you eaten?”

Martel presents a number of examples of official denials of a problem that convince me that there really is a problem.

China’s dictatorial system looks strong from the outside, and appeals to people like Tom Friedman as efficient and capable of achieving great things. But what Friedman and many American elites miss is the level of dissatisfaction among those not sharing in the benefits of industrialization, while paying its costs in crowding, pollution, and high-handed officialdom. China’s focus on surveillance and state control of personal behavior demonstrates the inherent weakness of a top-down, corrupt system of governance.

[Vision]

The CCP and their supporters are evil on Earth.

[usconservative]

I hope they starve.

[Cottonpatch]

I always look at news from a Bibical world view and everything on the news today points to an ending of Armageddon. It gives me great hope of the
return of Christ.

[PIF]

Reply: “Mam, I’m just helping you grow antibodies. So shut the F up and lose a few pounds so you can walk like a normal human”

[Salamander]

WTH is THAT??

[Cottonpatch]

I always look at news from a Bibical world view and everything on the news today points to an ending of Armageddon. It gives me great hope for the
soon return of Christ.

[redfreedom]

You have an interesting point. Enacting the full Green New Deal would certainly create a real food shortage.

But for now we as a nation have a surplus. I live in a major grain producing area and grain is literally piled on the ground for the mice and birds to feast on while it waits for storage elevator space.

Eliminate fossil fuels (as in the diesel that powers farm machinery) and we starve. Bring in communism, and we starve just like many other commie countries do.

[oldasrocks]

I cut down this morning already. I only had 5 eggs in my morning omelet wit hacon, green pepper, jalapeno and mushrooms.

[ChildOfThe60s]

Shortages are very often distribution problems more than actual shortage of the product. Whether or not that’s what we’re dealing with now will become clear at some point.

But one thing I can guarantee you is happening behind the scenes is that our supply lines in this country and around the world are getting very strained and there is an increasing the likelihood there will be major breakdowns. Then you’re going to see some serious shortages.

I do all the grocery shopping and I can tell you that there are supply line disruptions right now and holes and inventory that one does not ordinarily see. Things are not all well and good behind the curtain.

In my opinion anyone who doesn’t have three months of non-perishables at their house right now is in denial of reality

[BipolarBob]

Did everyone notice how thin and fit the Chinese leader Xi looks? Me neither.

[Tommy Revolts]

We need to regulate overeating in the U.S. so that we can fund gender programs in Pakistan.

[Tommy Revolts]

These people are everywhere:

This honestly happened to me at a CVS. I told the person that me not wearing a mask was the least of their health risks.

[MtnClimber]

Here is your gender studies instructor. "It" cannot find a job here. Send "it" to Pakistan to teach their children.

[meadsjn]

Just like our commies here.
When any process needs improvement, their first impulse is to manipulate human behavior around the faulty process, rather than fix the process.

[Chode]

damn, i remember getting told as a kid to eat my parsnips because people were starving in China.

let-em starve... i still hate rutabagas, turnips and parsnips

[GOPJ]

It may be hard for Americans to understand the role of food and public eating in the Chinese mind. Banquets are a major way to demonstrate conspicuous consumption and people think and talk about food a lot more than most Westerners. One common greeting when meeting someone on the street is, “Have you eaten?”

Commies use starvation as a control tool... Twenty years ago almost everyone in China personally knew someone who had starved to death... Commies create hellholes and their press whore create excuses for it. It would be the same here if we let the commies in...

[MtnClimber]

Those starving Chinese are to blame for torturing so many of our children!

[.44 Special]

O.K., Karen.

[Chode]

LOL!!! yup

[.44 Special]

The Chinese Century is going to be less than a decade.