Canteens more interested in healthy profits?
The closure of a School canteen in Wellington is hardly a surprise to me.
A quick poll of students I’m working with right now reveals an interesting list of favourites from the canteen:
My assessment: Students are spending their own money, therefore the choices that they are making are are TASTY choices, not necessarily healthy choices.
Perhaps the government needs to buy back the school canteen system in this country? (It’s bound to be worth a LITTLE less than the rail network) Should canteens not offer these other choices at all? Surely that would mean there is NO choice? So should there be no choice at all? Perhaps government should legislate that Pizza Hut and Burger King should stop serving their wares because the public can’t be trusted to make healthy choices?
Mc Donald’s are offering alternative choices for their Happy Meals, presumably so parents can make those choices for their kids and educate them at the same time.
