Support for Jamie-O
Posted: April 24th, 2010 | Filed under: Food, Uncategorized | Tags: Food Revolution | 2 Comments »
Apologies to my Facebook and Twitter followers, since I’ve hawked this over there already.
Why do I support Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution? Here’s why:
My kids have always taken their own lunch, but this year, both of them asked if they could go through the lunch line. I said OK, and volunteered to help the younger kids in the first weeks of school get the hang of it. There was a breaded chicken sandwich, tater tots, peas and carrots and fresh fruit OR fruit juice.
I naturally started serving up both peas and carrots and tater tots on each plate until I was told that they have a CHOICE of ONE vegetable. Me: “Are you telling me that tater tots are considered a vegetable?!” and the lunch director sighed in an exasperated way and said “I know, it’s not right, but yes.” NO WAY. I gave the kids both ANYWAY and she didn’t rat me out.
I won’t go on about how fresh fruit and fruit juice are NOT EVEN CLOSE to equal choices.
Our family has been watching the show together, and the statistics on our health as a nation are staggering.
If you don’t have kids, you can support it for the sake of our nation’s health care system, and our life span. We have the first generation expected to have shorter life spans than their parents. Who will support the aged if the youth die prematurely from poor health?
He needs one million supporters to take it to Washington DC, and as of this posting, we are not even halfway there. Please consider? Click the badge below to sign the petition…and thanks for reading my rant.
Ugh, I totally agree with you. I signed.
I totally signed the petition early on, and I don’t have kids. It is not just about kids, it is about USA society.
You may or may not know that I strive to eat whole foods in my house, not this highly processed foods. Not only do I make butter, I make yogurt from whole milk from JD Dairy. I strive for local whole food component in everything I cook. I did not own a microwave until August 21, 2009 (it came with the house we bought) because I was afraid I would fall into the trap of Indsutrial processed food, 5 min in a microwave and eat. Yeah, it is possible to live 40+years without owning microwave. I ate just fine without it.
Also, I am not perfect and eat junk too, and I love the chemical flavors created in NJ that are added to processed foods to make then addictive, ex rice-@-roni brand, ding ding flavor enhancer addictive!
Premade processed edible product “chicken fingers” are the grossest food on Earth, yet it has become a ubiquitous food of the USA. People eat this stuff mindlessly. There is a general nationwide amnesia of what real food is supposed to be like. The USA population is being treated like animals at a feed lot before slaughter. Industrial food makers are feeding the nation the cheapest made processed edible products out of freezer bags to keep us mindlessly chewing.
So, I may be rambling, but I am passionate about getting back to basics when it come to feeding ourselves.