[England]
4-7 year-old children who go to public elementary school can eat school lunches for free due to government subsidies. Starting at age 8, school lunches will be paid for, but low-income families will continue to be able to eat for free. Some students bring their own lunch and others buy them in the cafeteria.
They have a minimum standard.
ex) They must eat at least one or more kind of vegetables and fruit every day.
In addition to the vegetarian menu, they can also choose halal food that follows Islamic rules. And they also put effort into nut free, and local production for local consumption.
Jamie Oliver
- He tried to change children’s food habits .
- ・Devising inexpensive and healthy recipe
- ・Training cook
- ・Food education activities for children
- ・To explain the actual situation to the prime minister to increase school lunch budget.
[France]
Due to religious and other reasons, vegetarian menu is mandated once a week in some areas. The 25% of all food in school lunches is local and most of them are made by farming ! It has also announced that 50% of its ingredients will be organic by 2022 by law.
[Finland]
They can choose meat dishes, vegetarian food or vegan. They are also working to reduce the amount of meat dishes in consideration of environmental issues. Some days, Some day Espoo City require the day to have only vegetarian food once a week.
『The difference between vegetarian and vegan』
Vegan is a kind of vegetarianism and they never eat animal products such as meat, fish, egg, daily products including honey.
Advantages and disadvantages of introducing vegetarian and vegan menus in Japan
We thought that implementing a vegetarian and vegan menu in our school lunches would be an important way to educate students about multicultural understanding. What are the advantages and disadvantages of this?
[merit] It’s about gaining a better understanding of vegetarian and veganism and being proactive about using local produce.
[demerit] Non-vegetarian children might feel inadequate or hungry, and children who don’t like vegetables will have a negative perception of school lunches. They might feel the nutritional balance and unbalances.
Hamamatsu City is making efforts to promote multiculturalism. It is not unlikely that the menu of school lunches be changed accordingly in the future.
