Reader’s opinion|Vegetarian food is often also very good at school. Second and fourth place among the most popular school meals in Helsinki are spinach pancakes and tortillas with vegetable sauce.
Schoolchild Saku Hulttinen presented in his writing There should be more meat on the school menu (HS Opinion 7.10.) that vegetarians could get alternative food from the kitchen or alternatively take their own snacks. The proposal would of course lead to a significant reduction in the consumption of vegetarian food and put vegetarians in an unequal position.
Finns already eat more meat than health recommendations, and the Nordic nutritional recommendations as well recommend a plant-based diet for its healthiness. In addition, vegetarian food is more environmentally friendly than meat. Vegetarian food is often very good, also at school. In second and fourth place Among the most popular school meals in Helsinki are spinach pancakes and tortillas with vegetable sauce, which are both vegetarian dishes.
It is true that it is problematic if students do not eat school food every day, but the solution is not to add meat, let alone remove vegetarian food from the menu, but to invest in tasty vegetarian food. Everyone can eat vegetarian food, and meat is also offered four times a week.
Kura Venesmäki
khigh school student who eats oulu food daily, Helsinki
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