Let’s also not forget that this generation of UK schoolkids is not growing up on the same burger and chips and crisps that our generation grew up on….more corners cut during manufacture leading to much lower quality food, combined with a shift in after-school feeding (more ready meals, less scratch cooking etc.). Thus it’s not fair to say "I grew up eating burgers and chips, and so can they".
And quite frankly, I’d rather the government spent £220million on the possibility that healthier food for kids *might* make them grow up into normal decent adults, rather than spend it on ‘peacekeeping’ in foreign countries that don’t need our ‘peace’. Our kids running amok and becoming the next ‘chav’ generation is a much larger threat to our society than terrorism.
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