FelinePersuasion
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I was just in the cafeteria at the kindergarten to 5th grade school, their lunches are not healthy nor completely balanced, taco's tator tots and milk woohoo. Another insteance was tuna fish, much better than the taco though, and in my group home they served icecream on wednesday if you had the level privilage to be in the group that got icecream lol.quote:
ORIGINAL: LadyEllen Well, here's whats happening in the UK. We have one celebrity chef (Jamie Oliver) - a very popular young man who has done a lot of TV shows on cooking and diet and all that sort of thing. He spent some time in a school for one of his programmes and from what he saw the kids being served (100% fast food basically) he kicked up such a stink that the government issued guidelines to schools to review school dinners and ensure that they were healthy. Everyone agreed that this was a good thing, what with kids becoming obese and eating fast food at least once daily, and oftentimes more than once daily. The new menus were introduced, the pop/soda/chocolate vending machines were removed. Kids would now be given lot of fruit and veg, and all would be right with the world. What happened next? The kids wouldnt eat it. Some went out of school at lunchtime, to the nearest MacVomit or chip shop and bought fast food even worse than what they had in school before. And the best bit was the mums in one town who were filmed, taking orders from kids inside the school for which particular type of crap they'd prefer to have brought to them and passed over the fence. I seem to remember that advertising of tobacco products was banned for public health reasons. How is it that the advertising of fast food then continues? That this junk is harmful to health has been shown time and again, and even the companies responsible for shoving it down our gullets have acknowledged it - MacVomit now offer healthy foods - not because the market has changed, but so they can avoid lawsuits in the UK in future by saying, well it was the customer's choice, your honour, so we're not responsible. Dont get me wrong, I eat it occasionally, probably once a month or so. But I eat it on the same basis as that joked about in the film Crocodile Dundee - it tastes like shit and its awful, but its better than nothing if there's nothing else about. E
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