How a 9-Year-Old Girl's Food Blog Forced Healthier Lunch Options

[geardaddy]

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Martha Payne is a 9-year-old Scottish girl with a taste for good, healthy food. Unfortunately, like so many other children, Payne attends a school that was far less interested than she in what it was feeding her and her classmates each day. Education is a difficult industry, and when it comes to deciding how to spend time and money, food is often low on the list of priorities for administrators. Payne was fed up with meals that at best, weren't nutritious and, at worst, were peppered with stray hairs that weren't hers. That's when she started her blog.

While it's derided by some as a safe haven for bitter layabouts raging in their parents' basement, blogging can actually be a very effective form of protest, and Payne is a perfect example. At the beginning of May, she started NeverSeconds, a food blog dedicated to rating the health and value of her school lunches every weekday. Though it hasn't even been around for a full month, NeverSeconds has already garnered a global readership—kids from as far as Taiwan and the United States are now sending in photos and descriptions of their lunches—and forced the hands of school officials in the process.

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[KurtNYC]

1. Why am I thinking this girl would have gotten suspended for this in the US?

or handcuffed and tazered?

[geardaddy]

2. You're probably right.

And it would be because she stepped on some no bid contractor's toes.

[Gold Metal Flake]

3. Yup.

[malthaussen]

4. Worse, probably. Treason.

Aren't school lunches held to federally-mandated standards? Isn't criticism of those lunches, then, ipso-facto criticism of the federal government? Isn't criticism of the federal government treason?

-- Mal

[virgogal]

5. Wouldn't unlimited servings of bread be carbo overload? Just

an honest question,not a criticism.

I also find it hard to believe a 9 year old did this without some adult input.

[richmwill]

6. Typical fat Americans, always eating unhealthy foods forced upon them...

... Oh wait, nevermind.