It was during a municipal board meeting that Vetlanda municipality decided that they will stop serving vegan food in their schools and preschools, which Vetlanda Posten was the first to report on. This despite the fact that the trade association Kost & Näring has national recommendations that state that all municipalities must offer vegan food.
The reason behind the decision is that it does not feel good to offer vegan food, as guardians need to sign that they take responsibility for the child getting the necessary nutrients through other meals. This is because the school does not consider itself able to offer a fully nutritious vegan meal.
– It doesn’t feel good, we have to decide how we want it in our writings and what we want to offer, says Robin Wallen Nilsson during the meeting, according to Vetlanda Posten.
The vegan diet has consisted of bread and water
When the question comes up about what children who have special vegan diets have been allowed to eat in the past, the municipality’s head of nutrition, Lena Ottosson, answers as follows:
– They have eaten what they could. For breakfast, they have been given a sandwich that has no protein in it or on it, and then they have been allowed to drink water. And sitting as a child in a preschool and eating a roll and drinking water is not a high point.