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School Children In Croydon To Be Denied A Hot Meal
August 27 2010
School children in Croydon London may have to go without a hot meal at lunchtime after the council announced it was ending its contract with a school catering company - Eden Foodservice.
Eden Foodservice supplies primary, secondary and special schools, and, in 2009, was awarded a Food for Life award for its outstanding catering. All this in spite of the fact that Tim Loughton, under-secretary for children and families, stated in the Commons that "school meals often represent the only nutritious meal in some children’s day".
I totally understand that we need to make financial cuts and get the countlry back to a degree of solvency, but denying children the basic right of nutritious food cannot and should never be included in these cutbacks as it is a nonsense in so many ways.
Children that eat a nutritious meal are calmer, happier, more able to concentrate, and healthier than those that dont. This is not just my opinion but a proven fact. Do we really want to have a nation of badly behaved unhealthy, possibly obese youngsters in the future? Hang on a minute - isnt that what we are seeing now, after years of doing just what they want to do even more of now, and that is cut the amount of money we spend on our school childrens meals at lunchtime.
If the government really wants us to take them seriously, and if they truly want what George Osborne said they wanted in his wonderful budget speech (that sounded like they were doing the 'right thing') then taking the food out of our childrens mouths is surely the most damaging thing they could do.
Anyone with the mereist hint of nutritional knowledge could see that it is a bad idea, and we even have proof with an ever increasing number of obese people in the U.K. to show the current government the results of an unauthorised horrific experiment by previous governments, interested only in saving money without any thoughts to the welfare of people, where we fed people badly with high sugar and fat and did not teach them about food.
The irony is that these planned short term gains result in a massive future cost to both the NHS and to society in general in terms of potential behavioural problems and lack of educational uptake due to an inability to concentrate. It doesnt take a genius to see that this is a ticking time bomb.
If you want this generation to get the start in life they need, the Soil Association have a petition to support school meals and you can sign up to it on the Soil Association website by clicking here
They will be handing it to education secretary Michael Gove ahead of the Spending Review on 20th October.
At least our children are not being asked to take their own toilet paper as some children are in the United States, according to this Today segment!! No George, don't even think about it!!!!!!
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