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12:41 pm - 04/15/2010

How TV Superchef Jamie Oliver's 'Food Revolution' Flunked Out:After two months, kids hated the new meals, milk consumption plummeted, and many students dropped out of the school lunch program altogether.











There's a whole lot of fatshaming going on too, which is absolutely disgusting and not in the least helpful.

And apparently he pulled off the same thing in Britain three years ago?

Also : Article about Huntington, Jamie Oliver show angers locals
Fawn Boyer of West Virginia believes that targeting a town where the average income is below the poverty line is hitting under the belt. She is the creator of the Facebook group I Bet This Fizzy Drink Can Get More Fans Than Jamie Oliver. Boyer admits that there is a problem with fast food places in Huntington. Also, she says, poverty burdens many residents of the town. What she disagrees with is the article in the Daily Mail portraying her town as a bunch of hicks who don't care about their children. "The article in the Daily Mail was very unrealistic. It feels like an attack on Huntington. If you research the CDC you find that the state of Mississippi has a higher obesity rating," Boyer said during a phone interview.

In a town where many of the state employees are making so little income that they qualify for welfare, it's unrealistic to expect people to be able to shop at the higher line supermarkets that offer organic foods, she says. "The truth is for many fast food and a big can of Spagettios is the only way a family can afford to feed their family."

Boyer thinks Oliver's ideals are wonderful; after all he is for promoting better health and diet for children. She mused that it would be great if the schools could serve organic lunches to students but knows that with the funding that is in place for West Virginia's schools, that is a pipe dream. Boyer also said that the city's YMCA is too expensive for most of the residents. "The city should create gyms so that everyone would have a place to go to exercise." In West Virgina there is talk in the government about a fat tax allowing insurance premiums to be higher for those who are overweight instead of funding for helping its citizens become healthier.

Boyer has not been to Huntington's Kitchen. She fears that Oliver's show will portray the town's people in a negative manner. "It seems like the show is exploiting the town." Still Boyer's beef isn't with Oliver, whose ideas she supports, but with creating a program that just may not be sustainable for the town. The overall message she agrees with is basic common sense but it shouldn't come at the cost of shaming one group of people. MORE
syzygy_lj 15th-Apr-2010 09:08 pm (UTC)
Maybe in case a kid managed to slice themselves open with a butter knife?
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