The Great Food and Education Association: to build a special law for school lunch that respects the profession, properly manages and inherits the culture.

Share + 1 Tweet Email Note: this article is the full text of the speech by the Great Food and Education Association at the public hearing on the legalization of nutritious lunch on March 4, 2019.

There are all kinds of chaos in school lunches in Taiwan, except for the wide differences in lunch fees offered by county and city agents, the number of dishes served from five to three dishes, different charging standards, and various sources of ingredients.

What is even more surprising is that the central level regulations that serve 1.8 million school lunches a day are only articles 22 and 23 of the School Health Law, compared with Japan and South Korea, which have similar dietary patterns, education systems, and cultural customs. their respective "School feeding laws" have been in force for many years, and Taiwan's school lunches do have the dilemma of congenital deficiencies and acquired disorders.

Although there are many issues to be discussed, in this speech, we first put forward superficial opinions and suggestions on the three points of "respect for the profession, source management of food materials, and inheritance of food culture". Please correct them.

First, respect for professionalism

In Taiwan, the professionalism and importance of school dietitians and cooks are underestimated.

The School feeding Act promulgated by Japan in 1954 has been amended 13 times to include dietitians engaged in school lunches in accordance with the law. South Korea has developed from the concept of social welfare and cold relief in the 1950s to schools providing meals on their own throughout the country. the School feeding Act was also passed in 1981.

We believe that finding out the characteristics of Taiwan, making school lunches safe, nutritious and delicious, and supporting the sustainable life of society has become the basis for the health and happiness of the next generation, which is an important issue that can no longer be avoided. From now on, only by planning from a long-term perspective and abandoning political calculation can we have the opportunity to thoroughly improve Taiwan's campus catering system from the root.

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