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Who will safeguard the "basic human rights" of school children? The rise of Japanese and Korean grassroots to support nutritious lunches on campus

Published: 2024-11-22 Author: mysheen
Last Updated: 2024/11/22, Who will safeguard the "basic human rights" of school children? The rise of Japanese and Korean grassroots to support nutritious lunches on campus

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It is also known as "school lunch", but it presents a completely different world on the tables of Taiwan, Japan and South Korea. It is not only the tug-of-war between "meal expenses" and "quality" that school lunches in various counties and cities in Taiwan always fall, but even the problem of "breaking meals" in rural primary schools has come to the surface again and again. Even in Japan, which formulated the "School feeding Act" as early as 1954, it is reported that local governments have made different enforcement efforts, so that the situation of feeding varies greatly.

Kazuo Takagi, a representative of the Hefei Food Assistance Group in Western Japan, said bluntly, "although it is a school lunch for children, it is decided by the political wrangling of adults."

Group photo of all participants (Photo / Lai Yuwei)

Series of reports on nutritious lunches in Japan

Does the Ministry of Education promise to actively participate in nutritious lunch reform? will parents pay the bill?

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