A nine-year-old Scottish girl who attracted two million readers to a blog documenting her school lunches, consisting of unappealing and unhealthy dishes served up to pupils, has been forced to end the project after the council banned her from taking pictures of the food in school.
Martha Payne, from Argyll, started the blog at the end of April, initially as a writing project with her father. With the permission of teachers she photographed lunches as they arrived on their white plastic trays and gave the contents – generally meagre, often fried – marks out of 10 on a "Food-o-meter" scale for how healthy they were and whether or not she found any stray hairs.
In little over a week the blog, NeverSeconds, was being posted on social networking sites and had received 100,000 visitors. Martha got a tweet of congratulation from the chef-turned-campaigner Jamie Oliver.
Soon afterwards, pupils at the school were informed they could have as much salad and fruit as they wanted with their lunch. Martha began encouraging readers to donate to a charity, Mary's Meals, assisting with school food in east Africa, and they contributed £2,000. The worldwide readership meant she was sent photos from schools around the world, which she published alongside her own. It was apparent that overseas pupils were being offered far healthier dishes. Full story...
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Martha Payne, from Argyll, started the blog at the end of April, initially as a writing project with her father. With the permission of teachers she photographed lunches as they arrived on their white plastic trays and gave the contents – generally meagre, often fried – marks out of 10 on a "Food-o-meter" scale for how healthy they were and whether or not she found any stray hairs.
In little over a week the blog, NeverSeconds, was being posted on social networking sites and had received 100,000 visitors. Martha got a tweet of congratulation from the chef-turned-campaigner Jamie Oliver.
Soon afterwards, pupils at the school were informed they could have as much salad and fruit as they wanted with their lunch. Martha began encouraging readers to donate to a charity, Mary's Meals, assisting with school food in east Africa, and they contributed £2,000. The worldwide readership meant she was sent photos from schools around the world, which she published alongside her own. It was apparent that overseas pupils were being offered far healthier dishes. Full story...
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