Yes, absolutely. School food programs have been shown to support children's preferences for healthy eating. They would support the government's healthy eating strategy, moving towards more fruits and vegetables in a diet. Now, that is very dependent on income, in many situations, but at the same time, we've seen less bullying. We've heard of students being less involved in gangs, because gangs can often attract kids through food. We have heard very interesting statistics about teachers noticing behaviour in the classrooms really settling when they provide a snack. I've heard of providing students with food before standardized testing so that they can boost the scores.
There's a wide range of different impacts on, as I said, preferences for food. As well, schools can integrate food literacy, and those schools can engage their children in developing the school meals, being part of those cooking processes, growing food and building those skills that they will have with them for life.
