Children and young people's food practices are nowadays more visible, surveyed
and contested than ever before. There are unprecedented levels of
public and media discussion concerning young people's practices, their
exposure to marketing and advertisements, concerns around their health
education, leisure activities, internet safety, and eating. Regarding the latter:
food issues have gained increasing attention from the media and conquered
central stage in the policy agendas of several countries. For example, in the
UK, the growing interest in children and food consumption is visible in
several policy initiatives that commenced in the present century (see Graham
et aI., this volume). Some of these attempted to tackle the perceived unbalanced
nutritional quality of school meals, to encourage children to eat
better (e.g. reduced intake of sugary, fatty foods and fizzy drinks). Other
than the UK, more countries are putting considerable efforts to reform
school meaIs towards healthier and nutritionally balanced meaIs including
sourcing organic and local produce, thus combining an agenda of health with
one of sustainability (Morgan and Sonnino, 2008).info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio