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Italy's packed lunch politics

Food is a serious matter in Italy - so much so that packed lunches are banned in many schools. So when rebel parents in Milan sent their 10-year-old daughter into school with a homemade tuna sandwich, the school made her eat it alone. It made front page news in Italy, but what's so bad about a packed lunch? Anna Scavuzzo is deputy mayor of Milan and is in charge of the city's education policy.

(Photo: Italian children eat during lunch break at an elementary school in Rome. Credit: Alberto Pizzoli/Getty Images)

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