Folks – our kids are now eating burnt plastic – this is what right wing privatization looks like
Children eat melted plastic in ‘appalling’ school lunch
Children tucking into their school lunches discovered they were eating plastic, in an incident their principal described as “appalling“.
Murchison Area School principal Andy Ashworth said the 200 or so meals supplied to his rural Tasman school from provider Libelle “seemed to be getting worse”. However, on Friday they reached a new low.
“The containers were so hot that they had melted both the plastic films on the top into the food, and the bottom had also melted into the food,” Ashworth said. “This is absolutely disgusting and dangerous.”
The children did not notice they were eating plastic until they got to the bottom of the container, Ashworth said.
We are now feeding our children melted plastic.
Comrades, you have allowed yourselves to be manipulated by the Hard Right into implementing spite as social policy.
ACT never wanted to fund the free foods in school policy, the malicious right scream, ‘why should I pay for your child’ and they mean it!
We forget how cruel the Right are.
Providing nutritious food in schools free to all our kids is a mark of civilisation, what we have is corporate slop for a Transnational at the cost of 2000 local jobs.
I honestly think for ACT and the hard right, when shit food gets exposed daily by the media, they all secretly cheer and laugh because they genuinely get excited by the idea of the child suffering in some inane hope that puts the responsibility back on the parent.
That’s how bent and twisted the Hard Right in NZ have become.
We should all hang our heads in collective shame that this cheap corporate slop is being fed to our kids but it’s also a very clear message to the rest of you Kiwis, ACT and the Head Right will do to you what they are doing to our kids, force feed us a privatisation model that empowers corporations while providing you with a bitter service usable to no one.
This is who we are now, this is what we is, this is who we have become.
Malice, spite and a grasping revenge fantasy that embitters them as much as it hurts us.
Ugly, ugly politics for ugly, ugly people.
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I do wonder that alongside its $9.50 each oysters would this sort of food be served at Bellamys for the consumption of MPs like Stanford, Seymour and Seymour’s Lap Dog Luxon????
Seymour did not turn up to his explain meeting on school lunches with Nicky Willis, arrogant chap-let him eat Marmite sandwiches.
Luxon’s school lunch fixit: the good old Jim Bolger let them eat marmite solution…https://donfranksnz.bandcamp.com/track/marmite-sandwiches-and-weetbix
CoC government finds millions to prop up foreign owned private businesses (salmon farms) but some school kids have to eat plastic contaminated foods.
Marmite from a non tax paying company called a church
If we are letting parents off providing for their own children, we should at least spend the money wisely. Seymour seems to be wasting money on a low quality option. Having said that, Luxon is right. A marmite sandwich is an inexpensive option for parents. Are parents really unable to stretch to that? Seems unlikely.
The last time a country poisoned kids with plastic was the Fonterra/Sanlu scandal in China where they put melamine in infant formula.
The result, 2 executions, 3 life imprisonments, 2 15 year sentences, and 7 government officials sacked.
Why aren’t the right calling for such accountability and responsibility here.
The marmite sandwich will come to haunt him just as did Walter Nash’s acid drops.
Our dopey PM told parents to make a marmite sandwich and give their kids an apple, is he going to say that to the businesses and farmers when they put their begging bowl out, I doubt it.
If they have no Marmite let them eat cake.
“I’m entitled , have my marmite sandwich an apple”
If they have no marmite, let them eat plastic?
But I don’t like Marmite. Will I be punished or refused other food if I don’t eat it?
It grieves me to say it but I have to agree with all those that condemn his comment as out of touch with the reality of the situation for many parents. In a perfect world all children should be feed and clothed by their parents but the world is not perfect.
Winston needs to pull the plug on this abomination
He’s probably the only politician with the balls to do it as well.
Whatever people think of Winston, he’s a smart politician and can see which way the political winds are blowing.
Seymour should be despised and ridiculed into a gated community behind a big fence… preferably in Rangipo or Rimutaka… or failing that… Arizona or Alabama
It was actually quite clever of Luxon to make Seymour the Minister of School Lunches. Luxon recently stated that there might be some teething issues but it was up to David to sort them out. Unable to resist another title to his name, our soon to be deputy PM, now has to fix a programme he is politically opposed to. Or does he
Yes, Peter and it was a cunning move from Nicola no boats to pass the buck to Winstone to fix her fucked up ferry debacle. Clever is not a word I would use for any of the national leaders, sly cunning, evasive, useless seems more appropriate.
Luxon should grow some balls and tell David this stops right facken now .You are wasting more money than Jacinda could have dreamed of wasting .The lunch program goes back to how it was and the treaty bill is stopped right now today .David your voter support only just passes the number of unemployed so you are in fact down with the bottom feeder lot when it comes to who you really are .
David did you not read Sir Ian Taylors open letter on stuff yesterday where he summed you up as the arsehole you really are ?
Now theres a good boy run along and play in your sand pit I will send Jones to play on the toy digger ..
It’s a national disgrace that the school lunch programmers is needed at all.
just like in the rest of the world… so a global disgrace according to one rightard.
Henare Kerakera, you mean “National disgrace” of course.
David Seymour and Chris Luxon, you mean
“National disgrace” of course.