Re: Are we protected from Junk Food Corporations?

From: Lictor (ghostmlNOSPAM-REMOVE_at_online.fr)
Date: 08/31/04 

Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 09:43:48 +0200

"Jeff" <kidsdoc2000@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:cgv3l1$58t@library1.airnews.net...
> However, I think the legislation is good legislation. It would be much
> better to ban fat food from schools - no soda, chips, candy, etc., sold in
> schools. Make schools a healthier place to be.

Actually, the concept of having food vending machine in a school feels like
a completely weird concept to me. Back when I was a kid, 15 years ago, we
had no such thing in school. If you were hungry, you would just wait for
lunch, and most of the kids survived that. Or you would go to school with an
apple or yogourt in your bag and eat it. Very small kids did have a school
provided *small meal* at 10am and 4pm. If you really had to have something,
at the 4pm meal for instance, you would just take 5 minutes off school and
buy (ok, not buy, we had shoplifting contests back then :p) a croissant or
pain au chocolat from the nearby bakery. That would not even be a problem in
the USA, since I think your kids are not supposed to study until 6-7pm. The
point is, we had no food in school outside of the lunch, and noone ever died
from that diet. Food was available outside of school, but we had to make a
conscious move to go out and buy it, rather than grab something from the
machine each time we passed in front of it. The first time I saw such a
machine in a school context was at University level.
We almost passed a law to ban these machines from the school, but the food
corporation managed to make the politicians back off. I guess profit remains
more important than anything else...

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