About Table Scraps

Table Scraps is a blog maintained by Bailey Norwood, one of the editors of Food & Resource Dialogues. It's purpose is to explore what is happening in the world of agriculture, food and resources; to discover topics that would make interesting FRD articles; to help readers understand different perspectives on controversial topicsincluding why intelligent people form different opinions; and to experiment with different ways of applying economics to contemporary topics.

The entries in Table Scraps are not peer-reviewed items of research, nor do they represent the views of anyone in particular (not even the blog's author!).

Monday, June 18, 2012

A missed opportunity to improve school lunches

A nine-year-old in the UK was recently told by her school to cease her popular blog, NeverSeconds, where she took pictures of her school lunches and posted them online as a protest over the food's quality (link).  Although it helped her raise $3,000 for a food charity and received the attention of celebrity chef Jamie Oliver, her school could not take the criticism.

Perhaps the school could have exploited the child's blog to help it raise money for better foods?  This makes one wonder whether good food was the school's main concern.