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Jamie Oliver: Teach every child about food
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Sharing powerful stories from his anti-obesity project in Huntington, West Virginia -- and a shocking image of the sugar we eat -- TED Prize winner Jamie Oliver makes the case for an all-out assault on our ignorance of food.
Jamie Oliver - Chef, activist
Jamie Oliver is transforming the way we feed ourselves, and our children. The winner of the 2010 TED Prize, he's on a mission to teach every family about eating better and living healthier lives. Full bio
Jamie Oliver is transforming the way we feed ourselves, and our children. The winner of the 2010 TED Prize, he's on a mission to teach every family about eating better and living healthier lives. Full bio
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Sadly,
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in the next 18 minutes when I do our chat,
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four Americans that are alive
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will be dead
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from the food that they eat.
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My name's Jamie Oliver. I'm 34 years old.
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I'm from Essex in England
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and for the last seven years
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I've worked fairly tirelessly
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to save lives in my own way.
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I'm not a doctor;
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I'm a chef,
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I don't have expensive equipment
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or medicine.
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I use information, education.
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I profoundly believe that the power of food
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has a primal place in our homes
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that binds us to the best bits of life.
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We have an awful,
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awful reality right now.
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America, you're at the top of your game.
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This is one of the most unhealthy countries in the world.
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Can I please just see a raise of hands
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for how many of you have children in this room today?
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Please put your hands up.
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Aunties, uncles, you can continue to
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put your hands up, aunties and uncles as well.
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Most of you. OK.
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We, the adults of the last four generations,
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have blessed our children with the destiny
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of a shorter lifespan
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than their own parents.
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Your child will live a life ten years younger
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than you
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because of the landscape of food that we've built around them.
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Two-thirds of this room,
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today, in America, are statistically overweight or obese.
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You lot, you're all right, but we'll get you eventually, don't worry.
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(Laughter)
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Right?
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The statistics of bad health are clear,
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very clear.
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We spend our lives being paranoid about death, murder, homicide,
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you name it; it's on the front page of every paper, CNN.
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Look at homicide at the bottom, for God's sake.
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Right?
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(Laughter)
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(Applause)
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Every single one of those in the red
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is a diet-related disease.
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Any doctor, any specialist will tell you that.
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Fact: Diet-related disease is the biggest killer
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in the United States, right now, here today.
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This is a global problem.
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It's a catastrophe.
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It's sweeping the world.
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England is right behind you, as usual.
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(Laughter)
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I know they were close, but not that close.
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We need a revolution.
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Mexico, Australia, Germany, India, China,
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all have massive problems of obesity and bad health.
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Think about smoking.
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It costs way less than obesity now.
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Obesity costs you Americans
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10 percent of your healthcare bills,
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150 billion dollars a year.
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In 10 years, it's set to double:
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300 billion dollars a year.
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And let's be honest, guys, you ain't got that cash.
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(Laughter)
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I came here to start a food revolution
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that I so profoundly believe in.
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We need it. The time is now.
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We're in a tipping-point moment.
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I've been doing this for seven years.
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I've been trying in America for seven years.
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Now is the time when it's ripe -- ripe for the picking.
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I went to the eye of the storm.
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I went to West Virginia, the most unhealthy state in America.
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Or it was last year.
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We've got a new one this year, but we'll work on that next season.
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(Laughter)
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Huntington, West Virginia.
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Beautiful town.
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I wanted to put heart and soul and people,
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your public,
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around the statistics that we've become
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so used to.
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I want to introduce you to some of the people that I care about:
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your public, your children.
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I want to show a picture of my friend Brittany.
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She's 16 years old.
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She's got six years to live
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because of the food that she's eaten.
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She's the third generation of Americans
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that hasn't grown up within a food environment
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where they've been taught to cook at home or in school,
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or her mom, or her mom's mom.
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She has six years to live.
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She's eating her liver to death.
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Stacy, the Edwards family.
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This is a normal family, guys.
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Stacy does her best, but she's third-generation as well;
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she was never taught to cook at home or in school.
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The family's obese.
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Justin here, 12 years old,
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he's 350 pounds.
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He gets bullied, for God's sake.
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The daughter there, Katie, she's four years old.
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She's obese before she even gets to primary school.
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Marissa, she's all right, she's one of your lot.
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But you know what? Her father, who was obese,
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died in her arms,
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And then the second most important man in her life,
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her uncle, died of obesity,
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and now her step-dad is obese.
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You see, the thing is
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obesity and diet-related disease
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doesn't just hurt the people that have it;
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it's all of their friends, families,
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brothers, sisters.
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Pastor Steve:
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an inspirational man, one of my early allies in Huntington, West Virginia.
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He's at the sharp knife-edge of this problem.
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He has to bury the people, OK?
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And he's fed up with it. He's fed up with burying his friends,
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his family, his community.
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Come winter, three times as many people die.
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He's sick of it.
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This is preventable disease. Waste of life.
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By the way, this is what they get buried in.
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We're not geared up to do this.
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Can't even get them out the door -- and I'm being serious --
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can't even get them there. Forklift.
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OK, I see it as a triangle, OK?
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This is our landscape of food.
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I need you to understand it.
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You've probably heard all this before,
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but let's just go back over it.
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Over the last 30 years,
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what's happened that's ripped the heart out of this country?
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Let's be frank and honest:
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Well, modern-day life.
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Let's start with the Main Street.
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Fast food has taken over the whole country; we know that.
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The big brands are some of the most important powers,
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powerful powers, in this country.
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Supermarkets as well.
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Big companies. Big companies.
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Thirty years ago, most of the food
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was largely local and largely fresh.
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Now it's largely processed and full of all sorts of additives,
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extra ingredients, and you know the rest of the story.
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Portion size is obviously a massive, massive problem.
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Labeling is a massive problem.
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The labeling in this country is a disgrace.
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They want to be self -- they want to self-police themselves.
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The industry wants to self-police themselves.
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What, in this kind of climate? They don't deserve it.
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How can you say something is low-fat when it's full of so much sugar?
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Home.
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The biggest problem with the home
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is that used to be the heart
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of passing on food, food culture,
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what made our society.
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That ain't happening anymore.
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And you know, as we go to work and as life changes,
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and as life always evolves,
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we kind of have to look at it holistically --
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step back for a moment, and re-address the balance.
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It ain't happening, hasn't happened for 30 years, OK?
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I want to show you a situation
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that is very normal
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right now; the Edwards family.
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(Video) Jamie Oliver: Let's have a talk.
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This stuff goes through you and your family's body
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every week.
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And I need you to know that this is going to kill your children early.
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How are you feeling?
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Stacy: Just feeling really sad and depressed right now.
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But, you know, I want my kids to succeed in life
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and this isn't going to get them there.
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But I'm killing them.
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JO: Yes you are. You are.
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But we can stop that.
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Normal. Let's get on schools,
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something that I'm fairly much a specialist in.
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OK, school.
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What is school? Who invented it? What's the purpose of school?
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School was always invented to arm us with the tools
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to make us creative, do wonderful things,
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make us earn a living, etc., etc., etc.
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You know, it's been kind of in this sort of tight box for a long, long time.
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OK?
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But we haven't really evolved it
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to deal with the health catastrophes of America, OK?
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School food is something
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that most kids -- 31 million a day, actually --
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have twice a day, more than often,
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breakfast and lunch, 180 days of the year.
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So you could say that school food is quite important, really,
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judging the circumstances.
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(Laughter)
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Before I crack into my rant,
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which I'm sure you're waiting for ...
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(Laughter)
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I need to say one thing, and it's so important
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in hopefully the magic that happens and unfolds
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in the next three months.
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The lunch ladies, the lunch cooks of America --
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I offer myself as their ambassador.
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I'm not slagging them off.
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They're doing the best they can do.
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They're doing their best.
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But they're doing what they're told,
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and what they're being told to do is wrong.
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The system is highly run by accountants;
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there's not enough, or any,
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food-knowledgeable people in the business.
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There's a problem:
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If you're not a food expert, and you've got tight budgets
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and it's getting tighter, then you can't be creative,
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you can't duck and dive and write different things around things.
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If you're an accountant, and a box-ticker,
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the only thing you can do in these circumstances
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is buy cheaper shit.
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Now, the reality is,
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the food that your kids get every day is fast food,
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it's highly processed,
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there's not enough fresh food in there at all.
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You know, the amount of additives, E numbers, ingredients you wouldn't believe --
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there's not enough veggies at all. French fries are considered a vegetable.
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Pizza for breakfast. They don't even get given crockery.
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Knives and forks? No, they're too dangerous.
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They have scissors in the classroom,
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but knives and forks? No.
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And the way I look at it is: If you don't have knives and forks in your school,
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you're purely endorsing,
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from a state level, fast food, because it's handheld.
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And yes, by the way, it is fast food: It's sloppy joes,
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it's burgers, it's wieners,
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it's pizzas, it's all of that stuff.
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Ten percent of what we spend on healthcare, as I said earlier,
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is on obesity, and it's going to double.
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We're not teaching our kids.
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There's no statutory right to teach kids about food,
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elementary or secondary school. OK?
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We don't teach kids about food. Right?
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And this is a little clip from an elementary school,
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which is very common in England.
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Video: Who knows what this is?
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Child: Potatoes. Jamie Oliver: Potato? So, you think these are potatoes?
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Do you know what that is?
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Do you know what that is? Child: Broccoli?
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JO: What about this? Our good old friend.
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Do you know what this is, honey? Child: Celery.
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JO: No. What do you think this is? Child: Onion. JO: Onion? No.
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Jamie Oliver: Immediately you get a really clear sense
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of: Do the kids know anything about where food comes from?
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Video: JO: Who knows what that is? Child: Uh, pear?
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JO: What do you think this is? Child: I don't know.
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JO: If the kids don't know what stuff is,
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then they will never eat it.
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(Laughter)
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JO: Normal. England and America,
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England and America.
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Guess what fixed that. Guess what fixed that:
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Two one-hour sessions.
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We've got to start teaching our kids
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about food in schools, period.
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(Applause)
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I want to tell you about something,
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I want to tell you about something that kind of
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epitomizes the trouble that we're in, guys. OK?
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I want to talk about something so basic as milk.
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Every kid has the right to milk at school.
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Your kids will be having milk at school, breakfast and lunch. Right?
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They'll be having two bottles. OK?
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And most kids do.
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But milk ain't good enough anymore.
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Because someone at the milk board, right -- and don't get me wrong,
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I support milk -- but someone at the milk board
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probably paid a lot of money for some geezer
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to work out that if you put loads of flavorings and colorings
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and sugar in milk, right,
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more kids will drink it. Yeah.
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(Claps)
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And obviously now that's going to catch on.
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The apple board is going to work out
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that if they make toffee apples they'll eat more apples as well.
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Do you know what I mean?
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For me, there ain't no need to flavor the milk.
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Okay? There's sugar in everything.
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I know the ins and outs of those ingredients.
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It's in everything. Even the milk hasn't escaped
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the kind of modern-day problems.
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There's our milk. There's our carton.
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In that is nearly as much sugar
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as one of your favorite cans of fizzy pop,
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and they are having two a day.
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So, let me just show you.
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We've got one kid, here,
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having, you know, eight tablespoons of sugar a day.
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You know, there's your week.
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There's your month.
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And I've taken the liberty of putting in
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just the five years of elementary school sugar,
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just from milk.
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Now, I don't know about you guys,
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but judging the circumstances, right,
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any judge in the whole world,
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would look at the statistics and the evidence,
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and they would find any government of old
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guilty of child abuse. That's my belief.
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Now, if I came up here, and I wish I could come up here today
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and hang a cure for AIDS or cancer,
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you'd be fighting and scrambling to get to me.
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This, all this bad news, is preventable.
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That's the good news.
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It's very, very preventable.
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So, let's just think about, we got a problem here,
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we need to reboot.
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Okay so, in my world, what do we need to do?
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Here is the thing, right,
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it cannot just come from one source.
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To reboot and make real tangible change,
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real change, so that I could look you in the white of the eyes
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and say, "In 10 years time,
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the history of your children's lives,
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happiness -- and let's not forget, you're clever if you eat well,
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you know you're going to live longer --
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all of that stuff, it will look different. OK?"
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So, supermarkets.
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Where else do you shop so religiously?
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Week in, week out.
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How much money do you spend, in your life, in a supermarket?
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Love them. They just sell us what we want. All right.
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They owe us, to put a food ambassador
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in every major supermarket.
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They need to help us shop. They need to show us how to cook
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quick, tasty, seasonal meals
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for people that are busy.
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This is not expensive.
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It is done in some, and it needs to be done across the board
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in America soon, and quick.
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The big brands, you know, the food brands,
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need to put food education
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at the heart of their businesses.
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I know, easier said than done.
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It's the future. It's the only way.
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Fast food. With the fast-food industry
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you know, it's very competitive.
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I've had loads of secret papers and dealings
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with fast food restaurants.
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I know how they do it.
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I mean basically they've weaned us on
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to these hits of sugar, salt and fat, and x, y, and z,
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and everyone loves them. Right?
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So, these guys are going to be part of the solution.
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But we need to get the government to work
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with all of the fast food purveyors and the restaurant industry,
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and over a five, six, seven year period
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wean of us off the extreme amounts
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of fat, sugar, fat and all the other non-food ingredients.
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Now, also, back to the sort of big brands: Labeling,
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I said earlier, is an absolute farce
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and has got to be sorted.
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OK, school.
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Obviously in schools we owe it to them
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to make sure those 180 days of the year,
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from that little precious age of four,
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til 18, 20, 24, whatever,
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they need to be cooked
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proper, fresh food
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from local growers on site. OK?
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There needs to be a new standard of fresh, proper food
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for your children. Yeah?
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(Applause)
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Under the circumstances, it's profoundly important
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that every single American child leaves school
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knowing how to cook 10 recipes
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that will save their life.
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Life skills.
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(Applause)
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That means that they can be students, young parents,
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and be able to sort of duck and dive
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around the basics of cooking,
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no matter what recession hits them next time. If you can cook,
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recession money doesn't matter.
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If you can cook, time doesn't matter.
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The workplace, we haven't really talked about it.
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You know, it's now time for corporate responsibility
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to really look at what they feed
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or make available to their staff.
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The staff are the moms and dads of America's children.
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Marissa, her father died in her hand,
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I think she'd be quite happy
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if corporate America could start feeding their staff properly.
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Definitely they shouldn't be left out.
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Let's go back to the home.
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Now, look, if we do all this stuff, and we can,
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it's so achievable. You can care and be commercial.
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Absolutely.
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But the home needs to start passing on
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cooking again, for sure.
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For sure, pass it on as a philosophy.
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And for me it's quite romantic,
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but it's about if one person teaches three people
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how to cook something,
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and they teach three of their mates,
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that only has to repeat itself 25 times,
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and that's the whole population of America.
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Romantic, yes, but
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most importantly,
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it's about trying to get people to realize
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that every one of your individual efforts
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makes a difference.
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We've got to put back what's been lost.
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Huntington's Kitchen. Huntington, where I made this program,
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you know, we've got this prime-time program that hopefully
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will inspire people to really get on this change.
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I truly believe that change will happen.
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Huntington's Kitchen. I work with a community.
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I worked in the schools. I found local sustainable funding
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to get every single school in the area,
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from the junk, onto the fresh food:
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six-and-a-half grand per school.
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(Applause)
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That's all it takes, six-and-a-half grand per school.
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The Kitchen is 25 grand a month. Okay?
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This can do 5,000 people a year,
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which is 10 percent of their population,
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and it's people on people.
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You know, it's local cooks teaching local people.
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It's free cooking lessons, guys, free cooking lessons in the Main Street.
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This is real, tangible change, real, tangible change.
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Around America, if we just look back now,
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there is plenty of wonderful things going on.
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There is plenty of beautiful things going on. There are angels
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around America doing great things
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in schools -- farm-to-school set-ups,
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garden set-ups, education --
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there are amazing people doing this already.
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The problem is they all want to roll out what they're doing
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to the next school, and the next,
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but there's no cash.
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We need to recognize the experts and the angels quickly,
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identify them, and allow them to easily find the resource
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to keep rolling out what they're already doing,
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and doing well.
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Businesses of America need to support
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Mrs. Obama to do the things that she wants to do.
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(Applause)
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And look, I know it's weird
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having an English person standing here before you
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talking about all this.
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All I can say is: I care. I'm a father,
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and I love this country,
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and I believe truly, actually,
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that if change can be made in this country,
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beautiful things will happen around the world. If America does it,
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I believe other people will follow.
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It's incredibly important.
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(Applause)
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When I was in Huntington, trying to get a few things to work
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when they weren't, I thought "If I had a magic wand,
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what would I do?" And I thought, "You know what?
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I'd just love to be put in front of some of the most amazing
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movers and shakers in America."
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And a month later, TED phoned me up and gave me this award.
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I'm here.
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So, my wish.
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Dyslexic, so I'm a bit slow.
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My wish
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is for you to help a strong,
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sustainable movement
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to educate every child
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about food,
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to inspire families to cook again,
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and to empower people everywhere
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to fight obesity.
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(Applause)
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Thank you.
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(Applause)
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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Jamie Oliver - Chef, activistJamie Oliver is transforming the way we feed ourselves, and our children. The winner of the 2010 TED Prize, he's on a mission to teach every family about eating better and living healthier lives.
Why you should listen
Jamie Oliver has been drawn to the kitchen since he was a child working in his father's pub. He showed not only a precocious culinary talent but also a passion for inspiring people to eat fresh, honest, delicious food. While serving as sous chef at the River Cafe in London, the BBC took note of him. His series, The Naked Chef, debuted in 1999. In the years since, he has built a worldwide media empire of TV shows, books, cookware and magazines, all based on a formula of simple, unpretentious food that invites everyone to get busy in the kitchen.
As much as Oliver's cooking is generous, so is his business model. The Jamie Oliver Food Foundation trains young chefs from disadvantaged backgrounds to work in his restaurants and runs an extensive gardening program that teaches children where food comes from. Series like Jamie's School Dinner, Jamie's Ministry of Food and Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution combine his work in the kitchen with serious activism and community organizing -- to create change on both the individual and governmental level.
Oliver uses his fame and charm to highlight the changes people need to make in their diet and lifestyles. With the 2010 TED Prize, he set the vision for Jamie's Food Revolution, a global campaign to educate kids about food and inspire families to cook again. More than 750,000 people have signed up to be a part of it. At the same time, Oliver continues to advocate for policy changes, like sugar reduction and clearer food labeling.
Jamie Oliver | Speaker | TED.com