Anybody seen "Food Revolution"? Chef Jamie Oliver?

[trof]

My daughter told me about it.
You can watch episodes Here:
http://abc.go.com/shows/jamie-olivers-food-revolution

The guy's trying to bring REAL food to our schools and fight obesity, childhood diabetes, hypertension.
Brought tears to my eyes.
Worth a look.

[trof]

1. Damn. Nobody? Y'all need to see this.

:-(

[Blue-Jay]

2. Why? Is he missing?

[A HERETIC I AM]

3. Yup. Watched every episode. Jamie is a good dude..

He really seemed to turn around the attitudes of the people of that West Virginia town. The question is, will it hold in the coming months. The last episode showed him returning there earlier this month only to find a lot had sort of backslid.

I think he has a great idea and it needs to expand.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

4. Saw the first episode.

It was pathetic.

[grasswire]

5. yes -- watched it all

Jamie is an idealist, and his sort of sweet nature made him a target. But if the series was a bit too much personal drama, that only means that Jamie didn't hire a sophisticated script writer.

All in all, I don't care if Huntington was ultimately successful, because Jamie raised awareness in many other places.

[foxfeet]

6. He took part of his fight to the wrong people.

Instead of ragging on individual school personnel, he needs to address the people who create the mandatory guidelines for menu items and meal composition. The school folks did not come up with the "French fries are a vegetable" standard: some bureaucrat far removed from the school decided that. The schools risk losing funds if they don't comply with the mandated standards. It doesn't make for good drama to address the USDA, which provides the schools with bulk commodities.

Can't argue with his focus on home-cooked meals, though. I grew up in the area and frying was the cooking method of choice for many people before McDonald's and Burger King had even established their presence.

[stray cat]

7. Kids watch commercial chicken strips made from bones and cartilege and still wanted to eat it

over the healthy food

[femmocrat]

8. I watched some of it, but it was too depressing.

I have cafeteria duty every day and see what junk the kids are eating. We used to make fun of cafeteria food back in the day, but at least it was FOOD. All they get now is processed fat, salt and sugar on a tray.

[WolverineDG]

9. Yup, seen all the episodes

and even have a few scars from battles on DU about it. Believe it or not, there are people who prefer their kids eat the processed crap over real food.

and, omg, the mom who sent her kid to school with nothing but potato chips & jelly beans for lunch. :wtf: was she thinking?

dg