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  This is not about being a nanny state at all, it is about educating young people about healthy eating. Removing junk food, with little or no nutritional value, is an attempt to aid their learning as well as equip them to be healthy adults. Having a "What right do they have to tell us what our kids are eating" is just as mad as saying "what right do they have teaching our kids algebra" or "what right do they have telling us we have to send our kids to school"
  
  Schools working in loco parentis have every right to inform young people what to eat as given the choice many children would just eat burgers everyday, in just the same way they would only do the subjects they liked given the choice. Pedagogy extends to the overall well being of children and for many kids this is the only proper meal of the day and so should be nutritious.
  
  The main problem with school meals is that many schools have very little control over the menus because once again someone thought that it would be a good idea to hand this important task over to private contractors profiting from something that should be as public as the institute in which it is set. To really have a chance of changing the junk food culture these companies, making money from a captive customer, need to be removed to give the schools flexibility to feed children with good food.
  
  As for Morrisons, as with all the supermarkets, they are not worried about the consumer; they are just worried about their profit. What you get for £4, that worries me too!

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