Schoolchildren in the UK are sacrificing proper meals to buy junk food to share with friends who cannot afford to eat, openDemocracy can reveal.
When youth worker Stephen Stark asks kids at the Community Court Yard in Northampton what they’ve had for lunch at school, they report having to choose “sharing foods”, such as chips or pizza, to ensure their friends can eat something.
“It’s a conscious decision – you can’t share a bowl of pasta, but you can share a bit of pizza, you can share a bowl of chips,” Stark told openDemocracy. “They’re not describing nutritious meals… it’s children helping children.
