In the past few years, we have been bombarded with a debate about the nutritional quality of school meals, especially after Jamie Oliver took his campaign to Downing Street and staked a claim for transforming standards, replacing chips and burgers with a healthier menu.
Many of us were probably in two minds when we heard of the mothers pushing bags of chips through the railings of their children's school in protest against the healthy school dinners that were being forced upon them.
Our ambivalence almost certainly stemmed from a philosophical commitment to choice, yet a simultaneous recognition that unhealthy eating is producing a generation of overweight young people and storing up not just personal morbidity but also a massive economic challenge for health care in the future if we do not do something drastic about it now.
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