We went out into Manchester to ask people if they’d be in favour of schools only serving vegetarian food in order to reduce the amount of processed meat that children were being fed.
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00:00Hello and welcome to Manchester World. My name is Theo Houstonbets and today I'm out on the streets of Manchester
00:04asking people about school meals and in particular processed meat.
00:08We want to know if people think that schools should be going vegetarian
00:11or whether they think there are little changes that they can make to balance this out.
00:15It was that real moment when food in schools became very healthy
00:19and I work in schools very often and now it seems to have gone back quite a lot.
00:24Why are children being served so much processed meat?
00:28Is it that the schools are chronically underfunded and can't afford proper ones?
00:32Yes, probably. I'm sure that if the schools had proper funding they would provide less processed meals, right?
00:38School's that one place where they can pick up good eating habits that are going to last them for their whole lives.
00:45So I think processed meats in schools we know is a carcinogenic, right?
00:51So you just know, you just can't do it.
00:54I appreciate then there's cost implications and who's paying for that and how are we paying for that and all the rest of it.
00:59All the rest of it.