It's bad enough they have surveillance cameras at every stoplight and it's even more scary that the feds are using cellphones and automobile GPS systems to track your every move. Now, Seattle has a new law: dump unused food into the trash and you can be fined; if you don't pay your fines, you presumably go to jail. Any household with more than 10 percent food in its garbage earns a bright red tag notifying it of the infraction, so the whole neighborhood will know you are flouting the law.
Obviously, they do not want anyone to ever clean out their refrigerators.
This means it is the responsibility of the garbage collector to go through your trash to see if you have tossed out a bad head of lettuce or if you've hidden that damned Christmas fruit cake in a Saks sack. You've just turned the garbageman into a cop AND a Judge; he has to determine what is food and what isn't. Supposing you discover and kill a rat, then toss it in the garbage can; is that to be considered food, as it would be in some cultures?
In one breath, they say the nation is too fat; in the next breath they tell you, "You'd better eat your food or you're going to jail."
In my opinion, were I a Seattle resident, I would take every scrap of food I intend to throw out, put it in a paper bag, let it ferment for a few days and then leave it in the back seat of the mayor's car... along with a dead fish, of course.
That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.
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