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Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution update, 14/05/10


00:00:03following people is the American food

00:00:06revolution update this week has been a

00:00:08really busy week Michelle Obama has

00:00:11released her kind of attack plan for the

00:00:13obesity strategy and it kind of runs in

00:00:17tandem with a whole bunch of other stuff

00:00:18that’s happening but basically what good

00:00:20is from a government level we’ve got the

00:00:23nutritional standards being looked at

00:00:24the food pyramid being look fat

00:00:26certainly more focus on activity and

00:00:29physical education you don’t have to be

00:00:31a chef but basic cooking is still as

00:00:33important this week as it was a month

00:00:35ago and in the food revolution so for

00:00:37that we need you we’ve got to do our bit

00:00:39to support Michelle let me tell you some

00:00:41of the really exciting things going on

00:00:43in America some of them are sweet and

00:00:45profound some of them are just down call

00:00:47let’s start off with the kids in santa

00:00:50cruz at these are young kids they’re

00:00:52cooking their own lunch look at the

00:00:54story below we’ve got a little video in

00:00:56it it’s brilliant and epic and if every

00:01:00school could do this it would it really

00:01:02would change the world Chicago kids

00:01:04teenagers have stood up filmed by the

00:01:07local news to basically say how bad the

00:01:10school food was how they want to get the

00:01:12junk out fresh food in Rick from

00:01:14Illinois we love him he’s created this

00:01:15game called taste buds he filled it up

00:01:18with vegetables and fruits goes and has

00:01:20a short bit of fun with the kids that

00:01:23gets him to learn what their basic

00:01:25fruits and veggies and stuff like that

00:01:26is huntington west virginia in my

00:01:28hometown in America where we did the

00:01:32food revolution a little update well

00:01:34with nearly finished out the rollout

00:01:35fresh food in all of the schools this is

00:01:37very very exciting thank you to all the

00:01:40lunch cooks you’re doing an amazing job

00:01:41the Huntington’s kitchen that we built

00:01:43for them is still running it’s going

00:01:45from strength to strength it’s so busy

00:01:47that they’re doing more or less ins and

00:01:49open down more classes which is great

00:01:51and also the local community have come

00:01:52together and put a fresh food market

00:01:54once a week outside the kitchen recipe

00:01:57of the week this week is one cup

00:01:59pancakes send your pictures in for your

00:02:01pancakes to the facebook site because

00:02:03the facebook site is gone suckers got so

00:02:06busy and everyone sending pictures in we

00:02:07love it and please please keep the

00:02:09support up for the food revolution we

00:02:11need more signatures on the petition you

00:02:13have already get your friends to do it

00:02:16because we want to get to a million but

00:02:18it is working and I’m very proud to say

00:02:20that it’s starting to make a difference

00:02:21already if you look at the stories below

00:02:23and just read some of them this is what

00:02:26it’s all about it’s about creating new

00:02:28awareness the one thing time time again

00:02:30that makes tangible real difference is

00:02:33food education and knowing how it will

00:02:36change your life cheers over an hour