"I'm sure this was done in 'the name of healthy eating' or for 'safety'
reason or to 'avoid legal liability due to allergies, etc'".
Don't be fooled by the propaganda... This "Big Brother exists to protect you
and take care of you" is always the official explanation. But, it's not the
true reason why they do that (and other things). This is to "condition" the
new generations to the idea of being constantly surveilled and to know that,
if they ever get "out of line", there will be someone noticing it - and there
will be consequences to that.
This is just one of the first stages of a very elaborated project, which aims
to take away everyone's freedoms and rights. (Like you say, it starts off
with small things, and then evolves to an ever-more controlling environment
and society.) First, you create a totalitarian government, of which no one
can escape from. And next, you eliminate democracy itself, and substitute it
for a government where people are not even allowed to have a say. (This last
step being done with the excuse of an emergency, war, or whatever reason they
come up with, with any resistance to it becoming impossible - simply because
any kind of "guerrilla" will become impossible in a totally controlled
society.)
If you all want to know part of the final goal of the people behind all this,
read a novel that Richard Stallman repeatedly mentions, called "Nineteen
Eighty-Four". (And for those of you who already have: No, that novel was not
written out of a great foresight capability of its author and as a warning to
people of what society could evolve to. It's a novel written by someone who
worked for the same interests behind all this and, like many other novels and
films that exist nowadays, a description of what's planned for the future
(now, ever more, the present). And the reason why this people even put their
plans on "fictional" books and films is, not only to "condition" people to
accept such a society model, but also because they think (or know) people
will be incapable of stopping it from becoming a reality.)
(This is a loooong story, that I've been researching about, for 10 years now.
And that it would take me days to explain. But, for the sake of this small
exchange of messages, and because this is not the place to discuss it, I will
just leave here this tips that I have.)
