During a recent flight I had the good fortune of watching a documentary called 'Food Matters' which quite simply blew me away with the range of facts, warnings and information it contained. It is far and away the best thing I have seen on a tv screen and I would urge anyone to watch it.Needless to say, Scotland has a health problem and watching this documentary rammed home to me just how far back we are in terms of nutrition and diet from where we need to be. I don't know what it will take for Scots to ditch the pizzas, ready meals and chips in favour of the blueberries, muesli and spirulina but I am as confident as ever that free healthy school meals should be one of the top priorities for our politicians, regardless of cost.
This then got me thinking about a current hypocrisy in Scottish Politics at the moment.
The free school meals campaign has been somewhat scuppered by certain councils, many of which are Labour-run, due to their claims that there is not enough money in the budgets to factor in this policy, despite agreements that had already been signed off that these meals would be paid for by every council.
Alex Salmond's current claims that Scotland is being hit by a £500m shortfall in its own budget is very similar to that of the Labour councils claims regarding free school meals and yet Labour's counter-argument that the SNP should just tighten their belts and get on with it is in stark contrast to their own conduct with regard to the education budgets and free school meals.
I fear all sides are becoming increasingly guilty of this duplicitous behaviour and it's frustrating that it's getting in the way of good policies being implemented.
Food matters, it really does, and with LIT off the table, with no independence referendum on the horizon and precious little else on the Parliament's to do list, I really hope that Free School Meals finds its way back onto the agenda and we can give our kids the superfoods and nutritional education that could make a huge difference to this country, the sick man of Europe.
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You're right Jeff it doesn't seem to have slipped down the agenda but I did think it was compulsory that each council undertook this. I'm perhaps out of date.
It was a good programme. Pity we don't get more fruit here but the old root vegetables aren't bad and a few cups of green tea day.
I share your concerns, Jeff. With the parliamentary decks essentially cleared, the parties now have an opportunity to generate some real consensus - and moreover action - on vital issues such as this.
I watched the trailer, and have to say I don't know how seriously i could take the whole documentary. Come on when they say "genetically modified food" there's a clip of someone sticking a dirty syringe into a tomato.. really now!
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