Jaime+Oliver+Food+Revolution+Essay

What kind of food are schools giving your children? Statistics have shown that United States is the most obese country in the world. The schools are starting the children to be on a path that will lead them to become obese in the future. That’s were Jamie Oliver comes in. He is here in the States to show the schools that what they are serving to the children is bad for their health, but Jamie has a plan. His plan is to show the schools and families that you can make fresh healthy food that will still be in your budget. The schools that your child is attending, most likely feeds your children processed food and carbohydrates. Why are they serving your children this kind of food? Well because most likely because it easy. There not even cooks, they’re lunch ladies, but don’t let them hear you say that. Jamie Oliver goes to the school to show that you can start a healthy meal from scratch that won’t take forever and is in the school budget has well. But, Jamie has difficulty doing that because the district and “lunch ladies’” give him hell about it. For instants, the school district in Los Angeles won’t let Jamie Oliver come to the schools because they care more about their image then they care about the future health of their students. Jamie Oliver once said in an interview about Los Angeles banning him was “If the school district was worried about conflict and drama, then they should have thought twice about their actions. To be honest, 90 percent of what was created by them, written by them, produced by them.” Do they really care? Who knows, but what they are doing to these kids are horrible. They are setting them up for failure. Especially if they don’t show them want is good for their health and what isn’t. For example, Jamie Oliver gave a high school class a food quiz and there was a question that asked where honey comes from? No one got the right answer. When Jamie Oliver got that result he said “if a child isn’t taught what real food is, where it comes from and how to make it into a tasty affordable meal, how can we accept these kids - our future- to know what it’s doing to their bodies.” This is a constant problem in the U.S now with the help of Jamie Oliver what are we going to do about it this issue? In what ways can we solve this problem? Well good thing Jamie Oliver is here. He opens a temporary kitchen to give cooking lesson to anybody who wants to cook healthy meals and wish not to spend a lot of money at the same time. When he goes to these schools he shows the students and staff that it doesn’t take much. One of his students, Celeb Villanueva said, “Jamie taught us that not only rich people can eat healthy and in reality anybody can eat healthy with just some thought. Also when Jamie cooked with us he really proved his point- you don’t need to spend a lot of time and money on food in order to make it healthy. You just need to be creative.” What is the whole point of this? The point is for our future to be healthy not one dying after another. We should buy them their grave stones if we keeping feeding them nothing, but garbage. Another thing is that the schools are depriving your children of this information and reality people who have cases of diabetes in their family or who are overweight are crying for help. Jamie Oliver said “those students were begging for information and they soaked it up. And told me how it shifted their perspective- in only one hour. It doesn’t take much. But it takes more than nothing.” There lots we can do. We need to get off our behinds and voice this and show the school districts how we feel right alongside Jamie Oliver that the children deserve better. You would think that kids would want to eat healthy when they are taught what really goes into their food when made, but the answer is no. In the article, “L.A Schools’ healthful lunch menu planned by students,” by Teresa Watanabe is about how schools in the L.A School District when replaced the bad food with healthy food many students did not eat their food and a lot of it went to waste. Why do they not eat the healthy food? A student Andre Jahchan said “at the L.A Unified’s central kitchen the food tasted good, but when served the food on campus the food tasted gross.” The students wouldn’t eat lunch at all or would just eat Hot Cheetos for lunch. Some of the students were even selling candy, chips, and soda to the other kids for lunch and now L.A School District is ringing back their old menu**.** I believe that this is the school fault and also the parents fault at the same time. The parents should be teaching their children what is healthy to eat. So when they start school they use the skills they were taught to pick the healthy food the school serves instead of the other junk the school serves with it, but the children shouldn’t have to choose between healthy and unhealthy. There should just be one choice, healthy. Over all the parents need to provide the information and the schools need to fallow though with serving healthy food. All in all, Jamie Oliver proved to us you can cook a healthy meal with staying in your budget. He taught us the skills to do this. If United Sates doesn’t want to be known as the most obese country then we will take those skills and use them. But it is up to us to decide if we are going to use those skills or not.