China, apparently facing food shortages, introduces bill to regulate overeating

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> 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's intrusion 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. (snip)