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And this is in Scotland. Can you imagine what it is like in the poorest countries in the world? This is why we need a permanent, open Internet on all nations, because as soon as the truth comes out, someone does something about it.

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In the US we have corporate industrial processed food lobbyists influencing what ends up in the school cafeteria's. We're used to having quick, processed junk food and most people probably wouldn't want it any other way out of ignorance of what 'real' food costs and can taste like. 'Poorer' countries eat much less processed foods and more of the local 'real' foods.

That food looked pretty bad so pretty sure it's actually better in some of the "poorer" countries.

There was some old post about school lunches over the world. Google finds me this: http://todayilearned.co.uk/2011/04/20/what-kids-of-the-world...

No, not really. Each day we see atrocities from poorer countries, richer countries. The light of truth shines on it and very rarely is anything done about it on a scale like this.

In this case I think the celebrity involvement helped, but really it was the father engaging the local government.

A few weeks back, All Things Considered had a really interesting piece on a school lunch program in Bangalore:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/04/06/149867092/indian...

Obviously, that's just one program, and in just one city in just one country, but I thought it was pretty neat.

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