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Boyd Swinburn: Free lunch could be food-system game-changer
14 Feb, 2021 04:12 AM
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Food in schools is an issue at the moment. Photo / 123rf
NZ Herald
OPINION: School is back and, this year, kids attending the 25 per cent highest-need schools will get free lunches through the Government s Ka Ora Ka Ako (Live Well Learn Well) programme. This is an oasis of action in a desert of neglect of children s nutrition. A decade ago, Tony Ryall set a new low for a Health Minister by pulling the plug on the healthy school-food guidelines and the national Healthy Eating Healthy Action initiative. Subsequent Health Ministers have fiddled with mirages since.