Thank you for taking the time! I work at a small private school, the food the children choose (we do not have a lunch program) is whatever mom can get a Costco. Popular lunches are cup-o-noodles (we provide hot water) and an oversized apple that gets tossed. The school sells Costco muffins, chips soda etc. The kids fill up on that and end up sleeping most of the day.
Most children who qualify for school lunch are on welfare, which means they have government health insurance, which means if the government wants to save money on future costs, they should spend more money upfront on healthy foods. I mean, can you imagine teenagers getting insulin shots, a normal prescription of insulin costs over $200 per month per patient? This is ridiculous. Please listen to this lady and giver her an award!
Let's make the kids grow their own food. It's sustainable. They learn gardening. They gain a trade. Then they can cook it. That's another skill. Then they can eat it. That's an adventure!
I remember when this was implemented into the school I was attending. It was 2011 and I was a Junior in highschool. Being an "Athelete" at the time, this food did not do me any justice. Geniunly terrible tasting food, I ended up bringing my own lunch from then on.
+HONNE genuinly terrible because it doesnt contain all the chemicals that makes you addicted to the fast food. i mean USA is genuinly FAT for a reason.
coffeebuzzz When you're burning more calories than you're taking in, any nutrition is decent nutrition. And yea actually this food is a BAD ALTERNATIVE for atheletes. Pizza, Pasta etc isn't good for you no matter how many natural ingredients you put in it. I opted out of this shitty lunch program and started bring my own Chicken breast, brown rice etc for lunch. The most I would ever grab is a salad and that was if I was still hungry.
I may be against the way the government wants to enforce what we choose to eat as adults, but when it comes to kids, who don't have much of a choice, or lack the capacity to make the healthy choice, I agree with Ann Cooper 100%. Healthier food in schools equals healthier kids, and makes it more likely they'll make healthier choices later in like, and their kids will be healthier, not only at school, but at home too. Now we just need to get today's parents to care a little more.
My school food got only slightly better during this year... The LAUSD lunches are terrible and pretty much consist of burgers every single day. Anything that isn't a burger tends to taste pretty bad anyways, or it's cold. Now I work for the office in my school and I have seen the kitchen in my school while making deliveries... It is a full blown professional kitchen, yet my school just reheats food... that's it... I wish this could change.. Best leave that to the new students. (I'm graduating)
It's funny how people look at food. I'm from a Japanese background and live my entire middle school life in Brazil, by that the food the serve in high schools here in U.S. is stuff to be given for a kid to tell them that people don't really care about them, like a inside joke. However in U.S. I notice that the same food now is considered the basis of a "healthy" meal, the potato and white flour been the only source of fiber.
@takadi I think its normally because you have a group of individuals who are put in charge of things they don't care about, and know little more about the subject other than a list of cliff notes they probably browse. I mean that's just a theory.
I'm very worried about kids today. All they seem to want to eat is chicken fingers, pizza, sweet juices and sodas. I can't think of one kid I know that will drink water. It's a damned shame.
Thank God for this woman. I wish my school district's lunch system was like this. Unfortunately, my choice of lunch everyday is the same: a slice of greasy pizza, a little processed PB&J "sandwich", or a "chicken" sandwich. Of course, all three taste like shit.
Every kid should be involved in making real food, at least once; kids need to know what food is, how its made and where it comes from. To give people an opportunity to be involved in the creation of the food that is served gives them a feeling of personal investment and pride in food created by, and for "US". This is really common sense, but completely contradictory to students as consumers, which THEY ARE NOT- they're kids who need education.
honestly I'd spend my school lunch money if we had these kinds of variety of foods, Im not gonna pay for greasy ass pizza every fucking day. Now I just eat the fruits or snacks.
That part where she was talking about bringing in better foods and the kids rejecting it cracked me up. She seems like a very interesting person. Not that I agree with every little thing she said..
I feed my Daughter Real and Home made foods. We don't support Industrial foods. Good cooking isn't more expensive! Pay folks to chop veggies at schools instead of monitoring machines at factories! Eat and Work Local! Get gov and industry lobbyists OUT of the equation!
+diagoumistis A large portion of American children face food insecurity. The risk that they won't have meals at home. So often times this is the only place they are able to get regular, consistent nutrition.
stevo9er and the solution is the taxpayer is on the hook? Why are these people not feeding their children? Shouldn't that be addressed? All that is being accomplished is training a generation to be dependent on the govt. What happens when that dries up? Its wont be a happy time. Look at Venezuela.
+diagoumistis Haha, this is the most fucked up logic. Firstly, a country can't be strong if it's children aren't strong. Poor people in America can't feed their kids properly because they're broke as fuck, or the entire deck is stacked in favour of unhealthy, bad foods. Someone wants to address that and you accuse them of creating dependency? Malnourished children will in fact grow up to be more dependent on government aid, not less, because they'll be less productive, they'll need more medication for their chronic diseases and they won't have as much income to spend on things like education and entrepreneurship. America's allowing the food industry to make people sick, and they're hiding behind free market fundamentalism to get away with it.
Eh that pizza looks nasty as shit, you can't make a good pizza that cuts corners. I rather eat soylent for a week and then have pizza once a week then just eat shit tasting food slightly better then soylent forever.
Thank you for taking the time! I work at a small private school, the food the children choose (we do not have a lunch program) is whatever mom can get a Costco. Popular lunches are cup-o-noodles (we provide hot water) and an oversized apple that gets tossed. The school sells Costco muffins, chips soda etc. The kids fill up on that and end up sleeping most of the day.
Most children who qualify for school lunch are on welfare, which means they have government health insurance, which means if the government wants to save money on future costs, they should spend more money upfront on healthy foods. I mean, can you imagine teenagers getting insulin shots, a normal prescription of insulin costs over $200 per month per patient? This is ridiculous.
Please listen to this lady and giver her an award!
Bless you woman. You have no idea how important this is. We're talking about our future children here people.
Love this woman.
7:14 Best Part, and Best Expression EVER!
its touching the kids over and over and over...
If my school had served (real) tamales at lunch, I'm pretty sure I would have gotten a perfect attendance award.
She is a genius
Fantastic! Thank you Ann!
I love this woman. Shes so great in Food Inc and Killer At Large
I praise this woman!!!
i like her...shes awesome for what she is doing
This woman is amazing!
I love her enthusiast
Great work Ann! Your work is a blessing on this world :)
She is amazing. Great video. Keep up the good work.
This is why I love Australia. We have epic school lunches. We pay but we get epic food.
I always wondered what the android from Alien(s) did after those movies. I never thought he'd turn out to be a school chef though!
Holy awesome this is mindblowingly mouthwatering
I love this video it truely is inspiring
very good speech
I love that woman she's so smart and cute about it. I wish she was my lunch lady.
Great vid!!! This women is awesome!
Oh my god.. why can't we have this food in my high school. We get slob on a plate. Lucky kids.
Let's make the kids grow their own food. It's sustainable. They learn gardening. They gain a trade. Then they can cook it. That's another skill. Then they can eat it. That's an adventure!
wow this video is soo good.....even as a kid I saw this problem....
"Its touching the kids over and over then after a while it makes a difference" XD
So true!
"it's touching the kids, over and over and over"
i wish my school was like that.........
I remember when this was implemented into the school I was attending. It was 2011 and I was a Junior in highschool. Being an "Athelete" at the time, this food did not do me any justice. Geniunly terrible tasting food, I ended up bringing my own lunch from then on.
+HONNE genuinly terrible because it doesnt contain all the chemicals that makes you addicted to the fast food. i mean USA is genuinly FAT for a reason.
+HONNE
Yeah, i heard that fresh and nutritious food is bad for athletes.
coffeebuzzz
When you're burning more calories than you're taking in, any nutrition is decent nutrition. And yea actually this food is a BAD ALTERNATIVE for atheletes. Pizza, Pasta etc isn't good for you no matter how many natural ingredients you put in it. I opted out of this shitty lunch program and started bring my own Chicken breast, brown rice etc for lunch. The most I would ever grab is a salad and that was if I was still hungry.
Yeah, I remember my school lunch on Wednesday was: frozen pizza, milk, French fries, and ice cream. Yes, I said ice cream.
U worked so hard and i give u a thumb up for that ... :)
"It's touching the kids, over and over and over."
your doing great work!!!!
Real Food, FTW!!!
this makes me want to sue every single school i've been to in my life. these kids got a salad bar? almost looks like a buffet.
wow good on you, amazing.
I may be against the way the government wants to enforce what we choose to eat as adults, but when it comes to kids, who don't have much of a choice, or lack the capacity to make the healthy choice, I agree with Ann Cooper 100%. Healthier food in schools equals healthier kids, and makes it more likely they'll make healthier choices later in like, and their kids will be healthier, not only at school, but at home too. Now we just need to get today's parents to care a little more.
Great video. Reminds me of Jamie Oliver's Food revolution.
good stuff
wow. i wish my high school had a salad bar
My school food got only slightly better during this year... The LAUSD lunches are terrible and pretty much consist of burgers every single day. Anything that isn't a burger tends to taste pretty bad anyways, or it's cold. Now I work for the office in my school and I have seen the kitchen in my school while making deliveries... It is a full blown professional kitchen, yet my school just reheats food... that's it...
I wish this could change.. Best leave that to the new students. (I'm graduating)
she's not obsessed. she's a paragon.
That's my school!!! Go COBRAS!!!!!
Too bad school lunches weren't like this when I was younger.
It's funny how people look at food. I'm from a Japanese background and live my entire middle school life in Brazil, by that the food the serve in high schools here in U.S. is stuff to be given for a kid to tell them that people don't really care about them, like a inside joke. However in U.S. I notice that the same food now is considered the basis of a "healthy" meal, the potato and white flour been the only source of fiber.
@CarolineTurpentine
yup. love poutine.
@takadi I think its normally because you have a group of individuals who are put in charge of things they don't care about, and know little more about the subject other than a list of cliff notes they probably browse.
I mean that's just a theory.
I'm very worried about kids today. All they seem to want to eat is chicken fingers, pizza, sweet juices and sodas. I can't think of one kid I know that will drink water. It's a damned shame.
Nuff said...
Dang it should be a standard
The food I ate in elementary and high school made me want to throw up all over the entire lunch room.
Cream Fraiche Cafeteria Food!!!
She is right the food at my schoo is crap
COME TO MY SCHOOOOOOL
I'm guessing the Principal is Cobra Commander.
Thank God for this woman. I wish my school district's lunch system was like this. Unfortunately, my choice of lunch everyday is the same: a slice of greasy pizza, a little processed PB&J "sandwich", or a "chicken" sandwich. Of course, all three taste like shit.
1:12 AMERICAAAA
Every kid should be involved in making real food, at least once; kids need to know what food is, how its made and where it comes from. To give people an opportunity to be involved in the creation of the food that is served gives them a feeling of personal investment and pride in food created by, and for "US". This is really common sense, but completely contradictory to students as consumers, which THEY ARE NOT- they're kids who need education.
@GraniteTail If you actually watched the season of the show, it had nothing to do with the fact that he is not American.
honestly I'd spend my school lunch money if we had these kinds of variety of foods, Im not gonna pay for greasy ass pizza every fucking day. Now I just eat the fruits or snacks.
seemed like more of a rant than obsessives
well my school with metal forks would be deady..... maybe nvm.
That part where she was talking about bringing in better foods and the kids rejecting it cracked me up.
She seems like a very interesting person. Not that I agree with every little thing she said..
WTF. I never had foods like that in my school.... we did however have poutine.
"Celebrity" chef. lol yeah okay lady.
They missed it!
@operacat21 some pay half price, some pay full price, and some get it free. it depends on how much your parents earn.
fast talker >.>
She is right about a lot of what she said, but her voice and emotional filled rant drove me crazy.
Its fucking sad what we feed our children
I feed my Daughter Real and Home made foods. We don't support Industrial foods. Good cooking isn't more expensive! Pay folks to chop veggies at schools instead of monitoring machines at factories! Eat and Work Local! Get gov and industry lobbyists OUT of the equation!
In America, do kids get lunch for free? Do they not pay?
The program is funded by taxes? I wonder how Detroit's school lunch programs are doing...oh..wait...
argh... chicken nuggets do not sound healthy at all... what is the government thinking?..
;___; :S I hope I dont get diabetes. I drink a 2Li of coke (RC) everyday
Feed your own kids. Problem solved.
+diagoumistis A large portion of American children face food insecurity. The risk that they won't have meals at home. So often times this is the only place they are able to get regular, consistent nutrition.
stevo9er and the solution is the taxpayer is on the hook? Why are these people not feeding their children? Shouldn't that be addressed? All that is being accomplished is training a generation to be dependent on the govt. What happens when that dries up? Its wont be a happy time. Look at Venezuela.
+diagoumistis Haha, this is the most fucked up logic.
Firstly, a country can't be strong if it's children aren't strong. Poor people in America can't feed their kids properly because they're broke as fuck, or the entire deck is stacked in favour of unhealthy, bad foods.
Someone wants to address that and you accuse them of creating dependency? Malnourished children will in fact grow up to be more dependent on government aid, not less, because they'll be less productive, they'll need more medication for their chronic diseases and they won't have as much income to spend on things like education and entrepreneurship.
America's allowing the food industry to make people sick, and they're hiding behind free market fundamentalism to get away with it.
ManicParroT talk about fucked up. You're a fucking puppet and spouts all the same bullshit fed to him. Perhaps you need better nourishment, dumb fuck.
Eh that pizza looks nasty as shit, you can't make a good pizza that cuts corners. I rather eat soylent for a week and then have pizza once a week then just eat shit tasting food slightly better then soylent forever.
Asians are safe! phew
first?