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TUC backs right to food and universal free school meals
Pupils eating school dinners

THE TUC backed calls for a statutory right to food today, and demanded provision of free school meals to all children at both primary and secondary schools.

Moving a composite motion demanding a national food strategy, the British Dietetic Association’s Annette Mansell-Green pointed to the role of corporate profiteering in driving price inflation for basic groceries.

“Food is transformed from a necessity to a commodity. Any detrimental health results [from rising malnutrition and poverty-related poor diets] are collateral damage in favour of corporate greed.”

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