Have you caught Jamie Oliver’s new show Food Revolution? I happened upon it a few weeks ago while home on a Friday evening. It was mesmerizing and sad all at the same time. I was riveted as I hit the rewind button to show the episode to my husband and youngest son.
Jamie was with a classroom of kids who could not name certain vegetables when he held them up…..and I’m talking a POTATO…..but they knew what a French fry was. Most shocking was a concoction of grossness that they watched him make in a food processor. Raw chicken skin, and what he called nasty bits of carcass mixed with salt, oil, fillers etc. You see, he thought he was totally grossing these kids out but when he went to fry up the nasty in the pan, the children were like “ooohhh, chicken nuggets, yum!” I think Jamie started crying he was so shocked and saddened.
What ensued for the rest of the episode was Jamie totally taking over a school lunch program in Virginia and trying to educate the kids and their parents as well as the school board on what changes need to be made in America
One family that they interviewed had children that were close to being diabetic as they were all obese and the show was seeking treatment for the kids and education for the parents. What are we feeding our children? What has our society become?
Check out Jamie Oliver’s FOOD REVOLUTION on Friday night at 9PM on ABC. You can also go to ABC.com and watch past episodes.
DON’T FORGET TO SIGN JAMIE’S PETITION which he will present to President OBAMA!
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