Should North East School Dinners go Full Veggie for Health reasons?

According to new research, kids are eating too much processed meat in schools, should schools go full veggie to stop this?

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00:00School meals should always be focused around the idea that the children will not have another

00:07meal except through their school.

00:10It should always be a veggie option, just care for all those different dietary types.

00:17Not sure there's a need to go all veggie though, what do you think?

00:20I'm vegetarian myself so maybe they could work hard on making the vegetarian options

00:27more appealing so that meat eaters would be tempted by them more perhaps.

00:32But yeah I wouldn't say go full veggie either to be honest even as a vegetarian.

00:35Have veggie day?

00:36Yeah or yeah something like that, just make them more appealing.

00:39I think you should go for healthy reasons yeah, yeah, so many children are going to get out of control I think.

00:48Going vegetarian would be good but you have to remember that any austerity that comes from that

00:55from taking protein away from kids is only going to affect the poorest kids.