Make junk food expensive, and children will go hungry | Phil McDuff

Jamie Oliver and Nicola Sturgeon’s plan to tackle child obesity will punish poor people. The answer is to make healthy food cheaper

“To people like Jamie Oliver, my dad would look lazy or like a bad parent, because we had days where all there was on offer was toast and crisps.”

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Her father wasn’t in information deficit, unaware that fresh fish and broccoli were better than frozen pizza

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