Junk food conundrum

3:08pm Thursday 28th February 2013 in Letters

CAERPHILLY, Monmouthshire and Blaenau Gwent councils have withdrawn the sale of beef burgers in all schools. Are these the very same local authorities who tried to ban burger vans from parking outside schools in order to protect students from the temptation of consuming junk food? What were these councils up to then, I wonder? Was the ban on burger vans put in place to care for the health of schoolchildren or was it in place to covet their own little profitable business in the sale of junk food?

Alan Whiting Dockwell Terrace, Llanwern

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Mervyn James says...
7:31pm Thu 28 Feb 13

Moot point, we ban burger vans feed out kids horse meat instead.

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Floppy backed says...
10:49pm Thu 28 Feb 13

At my son's primary school they only have burgers & chips once a week but he's not bothered he would rather a curry or roast any day.

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Mervyn James says...
8:59am Fri 1 Mar 13

Do we know what meat is in the curry... or the roast ?

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Floppy backed says...
9:13am Fri 1 Mar 13

No, its usually chicken curry and the roast - well we have to guess??? Luckily he has packed lunch as I always have wondered the quality.

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On the inside says...
1:01pm Fri 1 Mar 13

"their own little profitable business" In school catering!! You conspiracy theory nutters really do need to get out more.

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Mervyn James says...
7:05pm Fri 1 Mar 13

What conspiracy ? this is the food regulation people telling us what we eat isn't what they say it is. That is fraud. There's damned horse meat in near everything people are eating, it's a sandal. I am in recall of a certain curry house in Newport years ago that served rat meat in Curry, fast food eaters would not have a clue what meat was being used..... it is all smothered in spices.

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