I'm for both cookery lessons and parental responsibility for children's health.
The first line should be the home and early healthy eating for all the family.
All members of the family should be educated into healthy eating and basic cookery as soon as possible.
By the time some children reach secondary school, a lot of damage has already been done to them through inadequate diet and unhealthy foods.
The foundations should be laid in the home, primary and then secondary school. This way subsequent generations of parents will be able to understand the principles of a good diet.
Domestic Science as it was called was once on the curriculum and should never have been taken away in place of other less useful subjects.
The family and government have a duty to make sure children can cook and eat healthy food.