Why I am dreaming of free lunches - The Observer 28th October 2007

Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Parents are to be sent letters telling them that their children are obese, as if they were blind to their offspring ballooning before their eyes. Children aren't obese just for the heck of it, but because many low-income families survive on a diet that went out of fashion in the late Seventies. Today, for many adults and children, food is something mysterious that comes ready made in clingfilm, not a collection of ingredients. Cheap food nowadays is invariably bad food.

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