Canadian school’s policy banned all junk food from the cafeteria. In response to this decision students have decided to protest via video running on YouTube. Students from the St.Thomas Aquinas School, Samuel Battista and Brian Bahh produced a video including students’ interview and speeches of various famous personalities. They voiced a protest against extremely restrictive policy in the school.
According to The Healthy Food for Healthy Schools Act, cafeterias and vending machines in Ontario schools are prohibited to sell foods with a great amount of calories, apart from snacks and nutritious meals.
Battista claimed that it is not a way to promote healthy eating. He added that schools should introduce lessons on nutrition and enrich lessons in physical education instead. Such policies are not teaching students to eat healthy food in the cafeteria and they still prefer to go out and eat pizza wherever.
The classmates of Baah and Battista have been supported by a wide audience. Over the weekend, the video has already gained a total hit of 7,000. Tim Hudak being a prominent Progressive Conservative Leader in the province also gave his sentiment via a tweet. The topic has become widely discussed on different social media channels, for example Facebook and Twitter.
At any rate, there are a great number of people who support ‘The Healthy Act’ to be sure that it is urgent to fight against child obesity epidemic. That is why they agree with the schools policy banning of all junk food.
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Nothing stops these lazy kids from bringing their own food.
you penetrated to the heart of the story with your usual lack of insight. It’s a boarding school.
Furthermore, schools will start monitoring what is coming to school. Thanks.
Leave it to a politician to insult a cheeseburger, I didn’t think that was possible.
Why do these kids think they have a right to buy food at school? Buy what they offer or bring your own lunch. It’s that easy. If the school starts losing money because customers don’t buy what they offer, they will change the menu quickly.
Yeah great health choice there…aspartame poisoned drinks. Why do people still believe that these so-called “diet” drinks somehow equate to a more healthy lifestyle?
Ok, let’s make a deal. You get to put whatever you like in your body regardless of proved toxicity, we’ll supply it and let the agribusiness corporations promote it BUT… You opt out of publicly supported healthcare. Fair enough? Because it’s all about our right to choose.
Ok, let’s make a deal. You get to put whatever you like in your body regardless of proved toxicity, we’ll supply it and let the agribusiness corporations promote it BUT… You opt out of publicly supported healthcare. Fair enough? Because it’s all about our right to choose.
- than whether you can purchase sugary junk food on school property or not, guys. Reality check; only a very few people (mostly PR & marketing hacks for junk food corporations) are going to boarding this particular train.
Good to see these kids are not brainwashed and are willing to speak out. I am also glad school days are long behind me. I would not have the patience to put up with high school in such a socialist hell!!
Anyone using public funds to live should be given food vouchers and they should not be honoured on ANY food that is not nutritional. Wow watch how fast everyone starts calling the government repressive.
their priorities are completely messed.
I really love that these kids are passionate enough to make a video to support their viewpoint. I just wish they were passionate about something that mattered more than coke VS diet coke.
It’s always been a right of people to make poor choices, but the crusade to push for their availability never ceases to amaze me.
These poor darlings, being forced to eat food that actually has nutritive value! How can life be so unspeakably cruel? Welcome to the world, kids… now get over yourselves!
People, are idiots. I’ve come to that conclusion. We have this snot nosed kid whining he can’t have access to junk food, and then 20 years later when he’s 450lbs and dieing of heart disease he’ll turn around and sue the government saying they should have done more to keep him from eating unhealthy food. Again…people are idiots.
Oh, grow up. There are so many things going on in this world that are truly important, and youth waste time and energy fretting about Twinkies.
Sorry kids, you are wasting your time. Liberals are running the province, ONLY their views matter
They want to be able to make the choice. Is no middle ground to be had?
If these kids are our future we are in big trouble.
Stop selling any kind of food in all schools. You’re there to learn, not eat.
I was in a high school for a meeting recently – the only thing you could buy are was juice or milk for $2.50 – outrageous. Let the kids by a drink for a dollar – stop the gouging!
Finally someone who understands the concept behind revenue for the school and the choice of food we as humans want!
How about banning all the junk the do gooders insist on shoving down our throat…
I have an idea. For the kids still in the early grades why don’t they put in a playground with play equipment in the yard so kids, like, can have something to do, you know be active, other than standing around and waiting for the recess to end. Oh wait, I forgot that would be too dangerous.
it is stupid- they just go to a corner store
A teenager is a human. A human will always pick whats bad for them.