Thai school-meals programme served up as global malnutrition-beater

By The Nation

 

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Thailand will propose its school meals programme to the World Food Programme (WFP) as an example of success in combating child malnourishment that can be shared internationally.
 

Thanawat Tiensin, Thailand’s permanent representative to the Food and Agriculture Organisation, the World Food Programme and the International Fund for Agricultural Development, has urged governments to partner with business in forging solutions to the problem of child malnutrition, in line with United Nations Sustainable Development Goals to tackle global food insecurity.

 

Thanawat recently got together with Chareon Pokphand Foods (CP Foods) and CP Foundation for Rural Life to discuss their ideas on nourishing young students.

 

“Successful schemes such as CP Foods and CP Foundation for Rural Life’s ‘Raising Layer for Student's Lunch’ and CP Livestock Myanmar’s ‘Milk for Kids’ are key to achieving food self-sufficiency in a sustainable manner,” he said. “These projects can be guidelines to end hunger across the world as well as bolster Thailand’s reputation as a model for food security.”

 

Supree Baosingsauy, general manager of CP Foundation for Rural Life, said it has been working together with CP Foods on the “Raising Layer for Student's Lunch” project since 1989 to reduce malnutrition among students in remote areas.

 

The company has provided facilities, food and knowledge on layer poultry farming to 700 schools nationwide, helping over 155,000 students receive sufficient protein in their diets.

 

Beyond food security, the project has cultivated social enterprise practices, encouraging students to further develop their farm management skills. The students are able to produce other food supplies such as fish and vegetables by themselves, while surplus products are sold to nearby communities for extra income.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/business/30367059

 

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5 minutes ago, webfact said:

Thanawat recently got together with Chareon Pokphand Foods (CP Foods) and CP Foundation for Rural Life to discuss their ideas on nourishing young students.

yes we have very healthy chocolate raisin bread and cream filled buns for the main meal, like we serve in our 7/11's. 

Big words just because no kids were poisoned with rotten school meals for a week.

2 hours ago, NCC1701A said:

yes we have very healthy chocolate raisin bread and cream filled buns for the main meal, like we serve in our 7/11's. 

Probably more healthy than glyphosate and paraquat contaminated veggies....

seriously? my daughter goes to a private (not international) school, they served school meals till age 12, than they said, for the next years, go buy your food at a food stall they leased to some food seller..... fried chicken or friend egg or boiling hot noodles in PLASTIC cups ...

 

In this country nobody checks the quality of oils...it might as well be used 100 days straight and being black before changing

 

I was the only parents complaining, the rest of thai parents saw it as FREEDOM for their children to chose ... 

 

so this is why I start to cook myself, the lunch in a GLASS lunch box

 

health and thailand in the same sentence = fraud

3 hours ago, webfact said:

as well as bolster Thailand’s reputation as a model for food security.

... currently on a par with their reputation for road safety

 

i was chatting to a friend's daughter the other day, she goes to a top 5 bangkok school and was telling me the food was good, but apparently the toilets are always filthy.

3 hours ago, NCC1701A said:

yes we have very healthy chocolate raisin bread and cream filled buns for the main meal, like we serve in our 7/11's. 

"Ja rup sarapow perm mai Ka ?"   they don't say that very often any more.

Now its "Sai toong mai Ka ?"    always use a bag !! ????

3 hours ago, webfact said:

These projects can be guidelines to end hunger across the world

LoL ...we had school meals in the UK for decades it did nothing to end world hunger..

here is the only thing that can end world hunger............

stop the rampant uncontrolled production of human beings.

I ???? Pla Ra

Is this the Thai school meal programme that served children with boiled noodles and fish sauce week after week?

 

http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/national/30347315

 

From the article, "the Education Ministry no longer conducts random checks on lunch quality".

 

2 hours ago, samsensam said:

 

i was chatting to a friend's daughter the other day, she goes to a top 5 bangkok school and was telling me the food was good, but apparently the toilets are always filthy.

I have yet to see any consistent bathrooms with soap and paper towels, or proper working hand dryers here, not that anyone uses them anyway, which makes you wonder how your food is prepared by workers. 

4 hours ago, justin case said:

seriously? my daughter goes to a private (not international) school, they served school meals till age 12, than they said, for the next years, go buy your food at a food stall they leased to some food seller..... fried chicken or friend egg or boiling hot noodles in PLASTIC cups ...

 

In this country nobody checks the quality of oils...it might as well be used 100 days straight and being black before changing

 

I was the only parents complaining, the rest of thai parents saw it as FREEDOM for their children to chose ... 

 

so this is why I start to cook myself, the lunch in a GLASS lunch box

 

health and thailand in the same sentence = fraud

Your bitterness is manifesting in every post you make. Hope you can work through it and come out the other side relatively intact.

3 hours ago, Pravda said:

I ???? Pla Ra

My missus dropped some of that on the drain cover outside last night

Nasty business. 

 

My missus dropped some of that on the drain cover outside last night
Nasty business. 
 

Scary !

Hot MSG loaded meals fresh from the microwave served up in plastic bowls for the kiddies. Delicious and so nutritional provided by CP chicken group. The company that cares about you health. 

Thanawat recently got together with CP, should have read he recently received a large brown bag from them.

The last company anywhere to be concerned about child nutrition, only concerned about making money and control.

Need to get Jamie Oliver in...

2 hours ago, fullcave said:

Hot MSG loaded meals

 

What's wrong with MSG? It's a perfectly natural ingredient that helps food taste delicious.  It also allows you to use less salt, so lowering sodium intake, and makes nasty tasting green vegetables much more palatable (so children are more likely to eat them).  MSG actually helps promote healthy eating.

Sound like another money-making opportunity for CP to me.

15 hours ago, ocddave said:

I have yet to see any consistent bathrooms with soap and paper towels, or proper working hand dryers here, not that anyone uses them anyway, which makes you wonder how your food is prepared by workers. 

Not to mention how regularly locals dig for gold in their noses. Better not to think about it - and be like many Thais, ignorantly bliss

21 hours ago, Oxx said:

 

What's wrong with MSG? It's a perfectly natural ingredient that helps food taste delicious.  It also allows you to use less salt, so lowering sodium intake, and makes nasty tasting green vegetables much more palatable (so children are more likely to eat them).  MSG actually helps promote healthy eating.

Gulp. Google "excitotoxin" and get back to us after you've done your research.