Letter: Let pupils choose

Pupils voting against school lunches with their feet strike a blow for individual liberty in the face of a determined politically correct attack on their right to eat elsewhere (your report, 18 May).

Some self-righteous campaigners want to imprison them in school at lunchtime, denying them the right either to buy from shops or eat at home.

Others want to bribe them with free meals, seemingly unable to grasp the obvious fact that it's the meals they don't want. The next stage will surely be either to ban packed lunches or issue a list of approved contents for them – inspection duties for prefects?

Authorities are not entitled to interfere in individuals' free choice of food even if it is supposedly for their own good.

This is punishment without wrongdoing, and if the reason is to prevent obesity, why should it apply to those showing no sign of this?

Why don't they just serve their own burgers with reduced fat and salt along with oven chips?

ROBERT DOW

Ormiston Road

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