fat kids have it easy
Monday, November 06, 2006was watching jamie's return to school dinners, where jamie oliver goes
back to see how his quest to revolutionise school dinners is going.
in one school, he tried confiscating the junk food that kids bought on
the way to school as soon as they walked in the gates. by taking it
away from them, they had to spend their money on the healthier
alternative of school lunch. and it worked.
he took this proposal to tony blair, who was understandably hesitant
about rolling it out across the entire country. he was sceptical about
the school having the power to decide what children should and
shouldn't buy and eat on the way to school. free country, individual
choice and all that.
but if this confiscation affects individual liberties, how come
teachers do it with cigarettes? it works on exactly the same
principal; smoking is unhealthy and shortens your life, which is why
you get your fags taken. likewise, eating crap is unhealthy and
shortens your life too; yet they get to keep (and eat) what causes
this.
obesity from eating badly must be an equal (if not worse threat) to
today's generation as cancer from smoking is, yet for some reason,
it's treated very differently.
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