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In 1968, Harold Wilson’s Labour government ended free milk in secondary schools and three years later, Margaret Thatcher, then Conservative Education Secretary, stopped free milk for primary school children, earning her the taunt “Thatcher Thatcher, milk snatcher!” In 1980, she also abolished the minimum nutritional standards for school meals and the statutory duty of local education authorities to provide a meals service. The standard of school meals fell so dramatically that a 1999 survey found that, despite food rationing, children in the 1940s and 1950s had a better diet than children growing up in the 1990s.

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The current #FeedTheFuture campaign is calling on the government to expand free school meals to 900,000 children in England living in poverty who are not currently eligible. But Sustain, the alliance for better food and farming, go further, calling for universal free school meals across England, arguing that just like desks, books and bathrooms, we should give free school food to every child. The British government could do well to look at countries already providing universal free school meals, including Brazil, India, Sweden, Finland, Estonia and a number of states across the USA, with Kenya and Benin making firm commitments. Indeed, London Mayor, Sadiq Khan, made the news by introducing free school meals to all children in London’s state-funded primary schools. Today, 418 million children receive free school meals worldwide.

I had a lunchable very infrequently growing up; not sure I’d want it all the time, even if it was extra-nutritious. Kinda thought we’d be moving away from this kind of food in schools in 2023.

Richard Murphy, economic justice campaigner and professor of accounting at Sheffield University, said free school meals for all children in state schools was the only possible solution. “Within months we will be facing the worst economic crisis that anyone alive has witnessed,” he said. “The government must move rapidly and universally as the cost of not doing so is not just child poverty but child hunger, and that cannot be acceptable.”

Students eat the midday meal at a school in Lalitpur, Nepal on Friday 3 March. The Nepal Government provides 15 rupees per student per meal but at this school a China-based Foundation has topped that up by 57 rupees. Full story coming next week.

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I think seeing this is eye-opening, schools cannot afford to feed kids and it’s heartbreaking. Many kids aren’t on free school meals and with the rising fuel crisis, it is becoming unaffordable both for parents and schools.

Please sign this petition because no kid deserves to go hungry

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Reddit link: interviewed heartbroken Lancashire dinner lady says she spends “as much time taking food away from children” as she does serving it as some schoolchildren do not have the funds for the school lunches (which means their parents/caregivers haven't been able to afford to top up their "lunch account" when this should all be free in the first place

I don’t need to check to know Indiana is on the list.

School snacks and lunches for my little ones!

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The state of Broken Britain... we can't even feed our kids properly in schools.

Good that the head teacher has acted, but what's wrong with the people at every level of the operation, from quality control at the supplier, Chartwells, to the people who check the food before serving to the children?

Does nobody care any more?

And what will the Tory government do? Nothing. Probably because the company is a party donor or got the contract by being a crony of a Tory politician.

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Cruel to asylum seekers to the UK (welcome to Rwanda). Cruel to one million kids in the UK. At least they are consistent.

Convenience Meets Tradition: Unraveling the Phenomenon of Ready-Made Meals in China

The popularity of ready-made meals in China reflects changes in lifestyle dynamics favoring convenience and efficiency. This market has grown to a size of 419.6 billion yuan in 2022, a trend fueled by urbanization, dual-income families, and middle-class g

Hello dear readers! Today, I am excited to delve into a topic that has been cooking up a storm in China – the phenomenon of ready-made meals. As someone who has lived in the US and now residing in China, the contrasts and comparisons in food culture never cease to amaze me. And one aspect of this is the burgeoning market of ready-made meals. So, let’s slice and dice through this fascinating…

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St Michael, Barbados. MOE - School Meals. It’s after noon and no school meals in sight.

https://youtu.be/4BnuA0Jvevk

Why are Bajan children left to be hungry and waiting on food? Naked!!

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