And All Was Right With the World
9-Year-Old Food Blogger Banned From Taking Photos Of School Lunch, Internet Outrage Saves The Day
by Kellie Foxx-Gonzalez | 11:47 am, June 15th, 2012
Remember Martha Payne, the nine-year-old food activist? This April she began documenting her school lunches on her blog Never Seconds. The reviews consisted of a photo of her lunch, a “food-o-meter” rating, a health rating, how much the meal cost, how many mouthfuls it took for her to eat it, and how many pieces of hair had slipped into her meal that day (yuck!). It didn’t take long for her blog to gain a following — especially after celebrity chef Jaime Oliver directed his fans to her blog — and she soon received hefty press coverage praising her shedding light on the deplorable nutritional value of the school lunches she documented. Anticipating a press storm brewing in the future, one of our readers predicted “that her school will somehow find a way to (attempt to) shut her blog down for not allowing photographs from inside the school or some other trumped up charge.” Well, it turns out they were right.
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