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Alarm over rise in junk food options
School tuckshops are selling 14 per cent more junk food such as pies and sausage rolls than last year, sparking calls for the reinstatement of healthy eating guidelines. The Green Party released its annual school food survey yesterday. It showed a 14 per cent rise in pie, hot dog, sausage roll and hot-bite sales compared with the year before. More than half of the 50 schools surveyed sold donuts, cookies and cakes while 42 per cent sold chips. The Green Party says the survey results show an urgent need for the reinstatement of the School Food Guidelines ditched by Education Minister Anne Tolley this year. Tolley told The Press schools were still required to promote healthy food and drink options and she trusted school boards of trustees to make appropriate decisions. Green Party health spokeswoman Sue Kedgley said schools were now free to sell as much junk food as they pleased.
Of all the stupid things National have done since becoming Government, deciding to allow junk food back into schools BECAUSE it was – get this – “Political Correctness” to ban them in the first place was petty and blind stupidity at its worst? Ask anyone working with child obesity and the issues poverty play within obesity about the intelligence of this move, look at the concentration rates from children not popped up to the eyeballs on sugar and fat and how much better they perform, talk to nutritionists about how children learn healthy eating styles and everyone of them were critical of this jawdroppingly moronic move by Tolley. The only reason why Tolley would agree to letting junk food back into schools would be because of industry pressure from big sugar and schools complaining about a drop in revenue, letting junk food back into schools is not in the interests of the child health wise or educationally. National need to admit they got it wrong and had used the nanny state bogeyman for the usual political and cultural advantages and ban junk food from schools, it really is as simple as that - they’re wrong and they need to admit that.
posted by Bomber @ 5:36 am
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Does the right-wing willfully misunderstand the concept of political correctness or is it just plain stupidity?
It means languange, ideas, policies or behaviours that try to minimise offence to a certain ethnic group, gender, sexual orientation, disability, cultural, age or other such identity group.
Which group is being offended by the regulation of junk food in schools? Kids that like unhealthy food? Parents that want obese children?
Plus it is a bit of an intellectual dishonesty to try and use political correctness as a kind of cover-all perjorative.
But nobody ever accused the National Party of intellectual rigour.
I wonder if Anne, Ronald and Grimace get together?
Whatever happened to parental responsibility? Parents should be ensuring that their kids don't buy this stuff or at least have a balanced diet if they do want to have some junk food now and then.
The parents can say don't buy the junk food, but when the school has it in their faces....
So, your parents controlled what you bought at the tuck shop when you were at school, Gosman???
JonL, funnily enough they did pretty m,uch control what I bought at the tuck shop as they either filled out an order form or gave me a packed lunch when I was at primary school.
I am following this same approach with my own kids. If you don't want them to eat crap either make their luch or ensure they only buy what you want if you give them money.
It is called taking responsibility for your kids.
ensure they only buy what you want if you give them moneyHa ha ha!! Nice try!
Do you have kids Anon? I have four myself. Once they reach the teenage years you can't control what they buy but you can still get them to make their lunches at home and not give them money for food at the tuck shop.
If they want to spend their own money on crap food then hey will do so regardless of if it is not available at school or not (You have heard of places called takeaway shops?).
It doesn't matter as at the 'Good Schools' they sit down to a cooked lunch and all commerce goes through the burser. The good or should I use the common name, Private Schools don't allow for juck food at school.
It does come down to parental responsibility on being rich enough to send your kids private.
Seriously though is Anne Tollys only qualification for this position, that she has breed?
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