Five green apples lined up on a wooden tray with a white die beside it against a pale green background.

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Jamie Oliver

The public health of five million children should not be left to luck or chance.

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What it means

Our interpretation.

This is an argument that the wellbeing of millions of children is too important to depend on fortune. Luck and chance are set against deliberate planning, so the speaker is pressing for organised, dependable action rather than hoping things turn out fine for the five million.

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