Papa Mike McRoberts

I just can't understand what we are doing with the future of our country in this way.

A buck fifteen a meal.

A lentil.

And, you know, yeah, I had those people too.

It's like, well, I've climbed up here and now I'm going to take away the ladder.

You know, like, get off the grass.

You know, like, no way.

It's pretty strong for me.

Well, yeah, I mean, there's a couple of hundred thousand kids that don't have school lunches at the moment that are on this program.

There's been reports suggesting that maybe another 25% aren't at the schools where the programs are, so they're just not getting anything.

I think the simplest answer, and you've got to look around the rest of the world to see what they've been doing,

in places like Japan and America and Britain, in Brazil.

So there's an Auckland professor, her name is Dr. Kelly Garten, she went to Brazil and she's done a study on this, where they provide lunches for everyone.

And so it's a universal lunch providing system.

And that means there's no discrimination.

Every kid gets the same.

When my kids were growing up, I would love my kids to have got...

Nothing worse than trying to make lunches.

At least I had the resources to do it right.

And so she's done some studies on this.