Scotlands kids to get free breakfast and lunch under new plans

[Blues Man]

..it just promotes people to not have any financial or familial responsibility = the kids grow up the same = cycle continues

Growing children with developing brains need good nutrition. Just hoping all parents will provide it doesn't work as a policy. I hear your objection, but the problem isn't the kids and they shouldn't have to suffer for it.

putting the government in charge of nutrition is what led to one third of Americans being morbidly obese

What do you mean, the government is in charge of nutrition? They don't do my menu planning.

The government puts out its food pyramid and subsidizes meat egg and dairy farmers all in a bid to get people to eat that stuff. The Standard American Diet is a direct result of not only the government but of the big money from the meat and dairy industries who own the politicians who then give them subsidies

and who do you think chooses the "free" meals handed out by government institutions like schools?

Protein is necessary. The food pyramid doesn't make people fat. Over processed convenience foods and fast foods on every corner do. People are too busy to cook, or they're doing the easy thing. People tend to do the easier thing when it's available. You want to get rid of frozen meals and Hamburger Helper, seasoned rice in a microwaveable pouch, beef stew in a can? They're even selling mashed potatoes in the dairy aisle, crappy meals in the deli counter.

There you go repeating the government line.

You don't have to eat animals to get protein. Where do you think grazing animals get all the protein to make the muscle tissue you eat?

Dairy products are shielded from market forces by subsidies keeping them cheap and keeping the dairy industry rich. But you don't see those subsidies for fresh veg and fruits do you?

That is the government manipulating the public to buy what they want them to buy so as to keep the people who own them rich.

 

[OldLady]

..it just promotes people to not have any financial or familial responsibility = the kids grow up the same = cycle continues

Growing children with developing brains need good nutrition. Just hoping all parents will provide it doesn't work as a policy. I hear your objection, but the problem isn't the kids and they shouldn't have to suffer for it.

Yeah, well why do we have so many dumbshits in the western world after having spent trillions on feeding fat kids? You can only attribute so much to their idiot teachers and parents, so now you default to they're not fat enough?

Are we talking about school lunches or something else? The government has no say what else a kid eats when kid is not in school.

That's because you can buy Snickers bars with food stamps.

That's a problem. WIC only allows certain cereals, no overly sugary ones, no HiC fruit punch. The program insists you buy real nutritious foods. I don't understand why the SNAP program doesn't, except that the snack industry is huge and has lots of lobbying money to throw around.

 

[OldLady]

..it just promotes people to not have any financial or familial responsibility = the kids grow up the same = cycle continues

Growing children with developing brains need good nutrition. Just hoping all parents will provide it doesn't work as a policy. I hear your objection, but the problem isn't the kids and they shouldn't have to suffer for it.

putting the government in charge of nutrition is what led to one third of Americans being morbidly obese

What do you mean, the government is in charge of nutrition? They don't do my menu planning.

The government puts out its food pyramid and subsidizes meat egg and dairy farmers all in a bid to get people to eat that stuff. The Standard American Diet is a direct result of not only the government but of the big money from the meat and dairy industries who own the politicians who then give them subsidies

and who do you think chooses the "free" meals handed out by government institutions like schools?

Protein is necessary. The food pyramid doesn't make people fat. Over processed convenience foods and fast foods on every corner do. People are too busy to cook, or they're doing the easy thing. People tend to do the easier thing when it's available. You want to get rid of frozen meals and Hamburger Helper, seasoned rice in a microwaveable pouch, beef stew in a can? They're even selling mashed potatoes in the dairy aisle, crappy meals in the deli counter.

There you go repeating the government line.

You don't have to eat animals to get protein. Where do you think grazing animals get all the protein to make the muscle tissue you eat?

Dairy products are shielded from market forces by subsidies keeping them cheap and keeping the dairy industry rich. But you don't see those subsidies for fresh veg and fruits do you?

That is the government manipulating the public to buy what they want them to buy so as to keep the people who own them rich.

If you want to be a vegan that's your choice, but humans are designed as omnivores. Deal with it.

 

[Tommy Tainant]

Scotland could become the first UK nation to provide free breakfasts and lunches to every primary school child all year round, after the SNP pledged to do so if re-elected next May.

Speaking at the party’s conference, the Scottish education secretary, John Swinney, made the policy commitment as he claimed that the UK chancellor Rishi Sunak’s “second wave of austerity” would unleash a “tsunami of child poverty” in Scotland.

Sensible socialism in action. Nobody gets left behind.

Why not? Why should parents have to be responsible and actually parent their children?

Life is tough and it is getting tougher. A lot of people will be out of work through the covid, it isnt their fault and the kids shouldnt suffer.

 

[Meathead]

What awful comments ... some people really hate children ... of course we give things to them for free ... we change their diapers, we cut their food up into small piece ... we pay to educate them ... money used to feed children is money well spent ... if you want to bitch about costs, then bitch about politicians stealing your tax dollars ... what kind of awful person would take food out of a child's mouth and have it spent on operating a VC-22? ...

If I feed my kids, clothe them, change their diapers and cut their food into small pieces, I have to do it for your kids too?

Fuck off!

 

[Tommy Tainant]

SNP pledges free breakfast and lunch for primary pupils all year round

Scotland’s education secretary, John Swinney, vows to dramatically extend free school meals policy

www.theguardian.com

Scotland could become the first UK nation to provide free breakfasts and lunches to every primary school child all year round, after the SNP pledged to do so if re-elected next May.

Speaking at the party’s conference, the Scottish education secretary, John Swinney, made the policy commitment as he claimed that the UK chancellor Rishi Sunak’s “second wave of austerity” would unleash a “tsunami of child poverty” in Scotland.

Sensible socialism in action. Nobody gets left behind.

As much as I understand and appreciate these offers for kids, as someone who was given such benefits as a kid. Not food, but certainly winter clothing and other payments to my mother. It's a bittersweet memory for me actually. At some point, the same looking clothes for three years at Christmas told me it wasn't from Santa. It's one thing to be poor, another thing to know it. You don't know it until you meet others who aren't like you.

I imagine it would be tough to be a kid getting that food as it would stigmatize them. Though in such larger numbers maybe it is a more palatable situation. You can't have kids go without food, so, this is a better solution than not eating but I'd consider food bank deliveries to allow some dignity of the parents and allow kids to eat at home if it were feasible.

Regardless. Poverty is spreading across the West, starting with the loss of the Middle Class and leaders are looking for fake explanations. They might say "racism" or "drug use" etc, or some other reason. They won't ever suggest a misuse of government resources, or, outsourcing of jobs to China for the pleasure of being spied on, kidnapped and assaulted. It couldn't possibly be this, because we have been told global socialism is good for us (it is NOT globalism as it's been sold and it's been good for only a few).

It's also a damnation of the welfare system to have such programs. The biggest culprit is probably the cost of housing. Rent eats up so much of ones resources on a fixed income that places like London and Toronto are unlivable places for the poor.

They will all get it so no stigma. When I was an infant we used to get a pint of milk given to us every day in school. A labour government introduced it after the war to help kids grow, It was stopped in the 70s by that bitch thatcher.

 

[Blues Man]

..it just promotes people to not have any financial or familial responsibility = the kids grow up the same = cycle continues

Growing children with developing brains need good nutrition. Just hoping all parents will provide it doesn't work as a policy. I hear your objection, but the problem isn't the kids and they shouldn't have to suffer for it.

putting the government in charge of nutrition is what led to one third of Americans being morbidly obese

What do you mean, the government is in charge of nutrition? They don't do my menu planning.

The government puts out its food pyramid and subsidizes meat egg and dairy farmers all in a bid to get people to eat that stuff. The Standard American Diet is a direct result of not only the government but of the big money from the meat and dairy industries who own the politicians who then give them subsidies

and who do you think chooses the "free" meals handed out by government institutions like schools?

Protein is necessary. The food pyramid doesn't make people fat. Over processed convenience foods and fast foods on every corner do. People are too busy to cook, or they're doing the easy thing. People tend to do the easier thing when it's available. You want to get rid of frozen meals and Hamburger Helper, seasoned rice in a microwaveable pouch, beef stew in a can? They're even selling mashed potatoes in the dairy aisle, crappy meals in the deli counter.

There you go repeating the government line.

You don't have to eat animals to get protein. Where do you think grazing animals get all the protein to make the muscle tissue you eat?

Dairy products are shielded from market forces by subsidies keeping them cheap and keeping the dairy industry rich. But you don't see those subsidies for fresh veg and fruits do you?

That is the government manipulating the public to buy what they want them to buy so as to keep the people who own them rich.

If you want to be a vegan that's your choice, but humans are designed as omnivores. Deal with it.

. We are not designed as anything since there are people who are healthy and thriving without eating meat or any animal products at all your assertion that we have to be omnivores and eat meat is wrong.

people do not have to eat meat to get adequate protein.

but hey why not eat a product that is basically rotting flesh pumped full of hormones and antibiotics and preservatives because the government tells you that you have to eat meat to be healthy.

 

[Blues Man]

SNP pledges free breakfast and lunch for primary pupils all year round

Scotland’s education secretary, John Swinney, vows to dramatically extend free school meals policy

www.theguardian.com

Scotland could become the first UK nation to provide free breakfasts and lunches to every primary school child all year round, after the SNP pledged to do so if re-elected next May.

Speaking at the party’s conference, the Scottish education secretary, John Swinney, made the policy commitment as he claimed that the UK chancellor Rishi Sunak’s “second wave of austerity” would unleash a “tsunami of child poverty” in Scotland.

Sensible socialism in action. Nobody gets left behind.

As much as I understand and appreciate these offers for kids, as someone who was given such benefits as a kid. Not food, but certainly winter clothing and other payments to my mother. It's a bittersweet memory for me actually. At some point, the same looking clothes for three years at Christmas told me it wasn't from Santa. It's one thing to be poor, another thing to know it. You don't know it until you meet others who aren't like you.

I imagine it would be tough to be a kid getting that food as it would stigmatize them. Though in such larger numbers maybe it is a more palatable situation. You can't have kids go without food, so, this is a better solution than not eating but I'd consider food bank deliveries to allow some dignity of the parents and allow kids to eat at home if it were feasible.

Regardless. Poverty is spreading across the West, starting with the loss of the Middle Class and leaders are looking for fake explanations. They might say "racism" or "drug use" etc, or some other reason. They won't ever suggest a misuse of government resources, or, outsourcing of jobs to China for the pleasure of being spied on, kidnapped and assaulted. It couldn't possibly be this, because we have been told global socialism is good for us (it is NOT globalism as it's been sold and it's been good for only a few).

It's also a damnation of the welfare system to have such programs. The biggest culprit is probably the cost of housing. Rent eats up so much of ones resources on a fixed income that places like London and Toronto are unlivable places for the poor.

They will all get it so no stigma. When I was an infant we used to get a pint of milk given to us every day in school. A labour government introduced it after the war to help kids grow, It was stopped in the 70s by that bitch thatcher.

Cows milk doesn't help kids grow

 

[shockedcanadian]

SNP pledges free breakfast and lunch for primary pupils all year round

Scotland’s education secretary, John Swinney, vows to dramatically extend free school meals policy

www.theguardian.com

Scotland could become the first UK nation to provide free breakfasts and lunches to every primary school child all year round, after the SNP pledged to do so if re-elected next May.

Speaking at the party’s conference, the Scottish education secretary, John Swinney, made the policy commitment as he claimed that the UK chancellor Rishi Sunak’s “second wave of austerity” would unleash a “tsunami of child poverty” in Scotland.

Sensible socialism in action. Nobody gets left behind.

As much as I understand and appreciate these offers for kids, as someone who was given such benefits as a kid. Not food, but certainly winter clothing and other payments to my mother. It's a bittersweet memory for me actually. At some point, the same looking clothes for three years at Christmas told me it wasn't from Santa. It's one thing to be poor, another thing to know it. You don't know it until you meet others who aren't like you.

I imagine it would be tough to be a kid getting that food as it would stigmatize them. Though in such larger numbers maybe it is a more palatable situation. You can't have kids go without food, so, this is a better solution than not eating but I'd consider food bank deliveries to allow some dignity of the parents and allow kids to eat at home if it were feasible.

Regardless. Poverty is spreading across the West, starting with the loss of the Middle Class and leaders are looking for fake explanations. They might say "racism" or "drug use" etc, or some other reason. They won't ever suggest a misuse of government resources, or, outsourcing of jobs to China for the pleasure of being spied on, kidnapped and assaulted. It couldn't possibly be this, because we have been told global socialism is good for us (it is NOT globalism as it's been sold and it's been good for only a few).

It's also a damnation of the welfare system to have such programs. The biggest culprit is probably the cost of housing. Rent eats up so much of ones resources on a fixed income that places like London and Toronto are unlivable places for the poor.

They will all get it so no stigma. When I was an infant we used to get a pint of milk given to us every day in school. A labour government introduced it after the war to help kids grow, It was stopped in the 70s by that bitch thatcher.

Please, don't ever call Thatcher a bitch again. She had a pair of balls bigger than most men and she at least had the principle to know that the evil empire was Communism, not, the Western worker and our civilization (though some unions may disagree).

 

[progressive hunter]

SNP pledges free breakfast and lunch for primary pupils all year round

Scotland’s education secretary, John Swinney, vows to dramatically extend free school meals policy

www.theguardian.com

Scotland could become the first UK nation to provide free breakfasts and lunches to every primary school child all year round, after the SNP pledged to do so if re-elected next May.

Speaking at the party’s conference, the Scottish education secretary, John Swinney, made the policy commitment as he claimed that the UK chancellor Rishi Sunak’s “second wave of austerity” would unleash a “tsunami of child poverty” in Scotland.

Sensible socialism in action. Nobody gets left behind.

sounds like you got of worthless parents that refuse to take care of their own kids,,,

 

[Muhammed]

SNP pledges free breakfast and lunch for primary pupils all year round

Scotland’s education secretary, John Swinney, vows to dramatically extend free school meals policy

www.theguardian.com

Scotland could become the first UK nation to provide free breakfasts and lunches to every primary school child all year round, after the SNP pledged to do so if re-elected next May.

Speaking at the party’s conference, the Scottish education secretary, John Swinney, made the policy commitment as he claimed that the UK chancellor Rishi Sunak’s “second wave of austerity” would unleash a “tsunami of child poverty” in Scotland.

Sensible socialism in action. Nobody gets left behind.

Ah yes, the free shit again. And who is picking up the bill for all that free stuff? Gays, who dont want kids? Elderly who can barely feed themselves? Buck tooth morons who willingly bend over and take it up the ass, because their Royal Families eat caviar and steak, while this guy eats grubs....

In that part of the world it's leprechauns that give out free shit. You see, they've got all this gold they find at ends of rainbows and ...

Kinda like we do. It just that we call it the Federal Reserve, not Leprechauns.

And Biden says he's going to bring back Janet Yellen if he wins, so expect massive rounds of quantitative easing to start again. Free money for the super rich and inflation for the poor.

 

[ReinyDays]

If I feed my kids, clothe them, change their diapers and cut their food into small pieces, I have to do it for your kids too?
Fuck off!

"IF" ??? ... you actually said `if I feed my kids` ... I'm guessing the worthless impoverished third world nation you live in let children starve to death ... how European ...

... or at least you think it's funny to watch children waste away and die ...

We've Made America Great Again ... maybe Scotland wants to be great too ... don't want to hear your lame excuse ...

 

[Mikeoxenormous]

..it just promotes people to not have any financial or familial responsibility = the kids grow up the same = cycle continues

Growing children with developing brains need good nutrition. Just hoping all parents will provide it doesn't work as a policy. I hear your objection, but the problem isn't the kids and they shouldn't have to suffer for it.

Yeah, well why do we have so many dumbshits in the western world after having spent trillions on feeding fat kids? You can only attribute so much to their idiot teachers and parents, so now you default to they're not fat enough?

Are we talking about school lunches or something else? The government has no say what else a kid eats when kid is not in school.

Do you ever admit that you are a stupid person who doesnt know shit what is going on in the world today, just take your slave marching orders and parrot what ever your masters tell you to say?

Find Meals for Kids When Schools are Closed | USDA-FNS

 

[Mikeoxenormous]

SNP pledges free breakfast and lunch for primary pupils all year round

Scotland’s education secretary, John Swinney, vows to dramatically extend free school meals policy

www.theguardian.com

Scotland could become the first UK nation to provide free breakfasts and lunches to every primary school child all year round, after the SNP pledged to do so if re-elected next May.

Speaking at the party’s conference, the Scottish education secretary, John Swinney, made the policy commitment as he claimed that the UK chancellor Rishi Sunak’s “second wave of austerity” would unleash a “tsunami of child poverty” in Scotland.

Sensible socialism in action. Nobody gets left behind.

Ah yes, the free shit again. And who is picking up the bill for all that free stuff? Gays, who dont want kids? Elderly who can barely feed themselves? Buck tooth morons who willingly bend over and take it up the ass, because their Royal Families eat caviar and steak, while this guy eats grubs....

In that part of the world it's leprechauns that give out free shit. You see, they've got all this gold they find at ends of rainbows and ...

Kinda like we do. It just that we call it the Federal Reserve, not Leprechauns.

And Biden says he's going to bring back Janet Yellen if he wins, so expect massive rounds of quantitative easing to start again. Free money for the super rich and inflation for the poor.

Well, Janet Yellow isnt in charge of the Federal Reserve Bank, the leadership of all banks, she might be appointed to the money printing presses of the government. Yeah, put the fox in the hen house, and watch mysteriously how trillions of dollars end up disappearing right into the prog masters bank accounts...

 

[progressive hunter]

If I feed my kids, clothe them, change their diapers and cut their food into small pieces, I have to do it for your kids too?
Fuck off!

"IF" ??? ... you actually said `if I feed my kids` ... I'm guessing the worthless impoverished third world nation you live in let children starve to death ... how European ...

... or at least you think it's funny to watch children waste away and die ...

We've Made America Great Again ... maybe Scotland wants to be great too ... don't want to hear your lame excuse ...

scotland isnt a3rd world country and america made itself great without help and so should scotland,,,
cause the fact is you aint great if you needed help to get there

 

[Mikeoxenormous]

If I feed my kids, clothe them, change their diapers and cut their food into small pieces, I have to do it for your kids too?
Fuck off!

"IF" ??? ... you actually said `if I feed my kids` ... I'm guessing the worthless impoverished third world nation you live in let children starve to death ... how European ...

... or at least you think it's funny to watch children waste away and die ...

We've Made America Great Again ... maybe Scotland wants to be great too ... don't want to hear your lame excuse ...

scotland isnt a3rd world country and america made itself great without help and so should scotland,,,
cause the fact is you aint great if you needed help to get there

Have you been there recently? I was there last year, there was vomit and piss on the sidewalks, a lot of poverty, a shithole, just like Chicago, just not as dark...if you know what i mean...

 

[pknopp]

SNP pledges free breakfast and lunch for primary pupils all year round

Scotland’s education secretary, John Swinney, vows to dramatically extend free school meals policy

www.theguardian.com

Scotland could become the first UK nation to provide free breakfasts and lunches to every primary school child all year round, after the SNP pledged to do so if re-elected next May.

Speaking at the party’s conference, the Scottish education secretary, John Swinney, made the policy commitment as he claimed that the UK chancellor Rishi Sunak’s “second wave of austerity” would unleash a “tsunami of child poverty” in Scotland.

Sensible socialism in action. Nobody gets left behind.

Ah yes, the free shit again. And who is picking up the bill for all that free stuff? Gays, who dont want kids? Elderly who can barely feed themselves? Buck tooth morons who willingly bend over and take it up the ass, because their Royal Families eat caviar and steak, while this guy eats grubs....

In that part of the world it's leprechauns that give out free shit. You see, they've got all this gold they find at ends of rainbows and ...

Kinda like we do. It just that we call it the Federal Reserve, not Leprechauns.

And Biden says he's going to bring back Janet Yellen if he wins, so expect massive rounds of quantitative easing to start again. Free money for the super rich and inflation for the poor.

I imagine so and figured as much which is why I didn't vote for him.

 

[EvilEyeFleegle]

..it just promotes people to not have any financial or familial responsibility = the kids grow up the same = cycle continues

Growing children with developing brains need good nutrition. Just hoping all parents will provide it doesn't work as a policy. I hear your objection, but the problem isn't the kids and they shouldn't have to suffer for it.

Yeah, well why do we have so many dumbshits in the western world after having spent trillions on feeding fat kids? You can only attribute so much to their idiot teachers and parents, so now you default to they're not fat enough?

Are we talking about school lunches or something else? The government has no say what else a kid eats when kid is not in school.

That's because you can buy Snickers bars with food stamps.

That's a problem. WIC only allows certain cereals, no overly sugary ones, no HiC fruit punch. The program insists you buy real nutritious foods. I don't understand why the SNAP program doesn't, except that the snack industry is huge and has lots of lobbying money to throw around.

To a large degree..SNAP is a huge portion of sales for the Grocery industry. Like..if they stopped the program..mass bankruptcies would shortly ensue.

 

[rightwinger]

If you want to be a vegan that's your choice, but humans are designed as omnivores. Deal with it.

If God didn’t want you to eat meat, he wouldn’t have made it taste so good.

 

[EvilEyeFleegle]

SNP pledges free breakfast and lunch for primary pupils all year round

Scotland’s education secretary, John Swinney, vows to dramatically extend free school meals policy

www.theguardian.com

Scotland could become the first UK nation to provide free breakfasts and lunches to every primary school child all year round, after the SNP pledged to do so if re-elected next May.

Speaking at the party’s conference, the Scottish education secretary, John Swinney, made the policy commitment as he claimed that the UK chancellor Rishi Sunak’s “second wave of austerity” would unleash a “tsunami of child poverty” in Scotland.

Sensible socialism in action. Nobody gets left behind.

As much as I understand and appreciate these offers for kids, as someone who was given such benefits as a kid. Not food, but certainly winter clothing and other payments to my mother. It's a bittersweet memory for me actually. At some point, the same looking clothes for three years at Christmas told me it wasn't from Santa. It's one thing to be poor, another thing to know it. You don't know it until you meet others who aren't like you.

I imagine it would be tough to be a kid getting that food as it would stigmatize them. Though in such larger numbers maybe it is a more palatable situation. You can't have kids go without food, so, this is a better solution than not eating but I'd consider food bank deliveries to allow some dignity of the parents and allow kids to eat at home if it were feasible.

Regardless. Poverty is spreading across the West, starting with the loss of the Middle Class and leaders are looking for fake explanations. They might say "racism" or "drug use" etc, or some other reason. They won't ever suggest a misuse of government resources, or, outsourcing of jobs to China for the pleasure of being spied on, kidnapped and assaulted. It couldn't possibly be this, because we have been told global socialism is good for us (it is NOT globalism as it's been sold and it's been good for only a few).

It's also a damnation of the welfare system to have such programs. The biggest culprit is probably the cost of housing. Rent eats up so much of ones resources on a fixed income that places like London and Toronto are unlivable places for the poor.

They will all get it so no stigma. When I was an infant we used to get a pint of milk given to us every day in school. A labour government introduced it after the war to help kids grow, It was stopped in the 70s by that bitch thatcher.

Cows milk doesn't help kids grow

Depends on the hormone levels...LOL!