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You’re a good man Bryan! Your research and evidenced based truths are like breaths of fresh air wafting through the smoke filled corridors of our current slash and burn coalition. The simple truth that $1 invested in good food programs equals $4 saved in medical intervention down the road requires a special kind of wilful gymnastics in ignorance by David Seymour. He won’t listen of course because he has no understanding of the needs of disadvantaged children.

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Thanks Mike - well he may not listen but Luxoin and Peters might if enough of us make enough noise on behalk of our children that they begin to fear they may lose the next election over this issue.

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Free school lunches could have changed my life in an incredible way. I’ve done ok now at nearly 50, but my childhood was needlessly hard & I 1000% agree that this program must be saved (and improved, where possible).

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Well done Bryan. Your documentary is exemplary. I haven’t got to finishing the transcribing yet as I felt it was worth sharing.

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May 8Edited

Love your dedication to these needs Bryan. Hope you can get more airtime on these subjects in the future. The added benefit of the students taking care of each other via mealtime sounds fantastic, a great foundation builder.

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Thanks Tony

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Your documentary is excellent, thanks Bryan.

The short term thinking of our current leaders just has to be willful ignorance because even they can't that stupid.

This was an interesting read today, too.

https://www.1news.co.nz/2024/05/07/when-it-comes-to-free-school-lunches-how-much-waste-can-we-live-with/

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Agree Glenys

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Sadly, Seymour is getting rid of the hot meals, which the article states always gets eaten, and replacing them with sandwiches.

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Magnificent! Thank you Brian - good work!!

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Thanks for your positive comment Judith

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Even as a grown adult I get "hangry". I can't imagine what it would be like having to sit down still in class, learning fractions or Shakespeare while having an empty stomach...on top of that some will be facing impending exams/assessments, & navigating puberty.

I think people have forgotten what it was like as a kid in school.

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I love the Plant to Plate initiatives in many schools where kids learn to grow their food, prepare & cook it, and eat it. Such great learning there.

Reading between the lines of Seymour’s words he mentions foods ‘like’ fruit and sandwiches, but then mentions bulk buying, long shelf-life and other things which imply it will be full of preservatives and plastic packaged, and. It fresh fruit and sandwiches at all. More money for corporate providers perhaps. Horrors. What many schools have now is so good!

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Yes Sue I think you have the measure of hime - painting himself as the saviour of the school lunch scheme is such a piece of political spin .

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*not fresh fruit & sandwiches

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