As UNESCO calls for attention to better-quality school meals, experts in Aotearoa, New Zealand, have pointed out that local government-funded school lunches are falling short on nutrition and quality standards. They emphasize that the School Lunch Collective’s (SLC) meals, which are delivered to 51% of students in the Ka Ora, Ka Ako Healthy School Lunches Programme, are of “low quality, mislabeled, inappropriate for special diets, missed deliveries, and overheated.”
