Re:Jamie Oliver's TED Prize wish: Teach every child about food
by felixmar on Friday February 12, 2010 @07:45PM
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Besides, the problem isn't educating the kids but the parents.
In one episode of Jamie's School Dinners some parents were giving junk food through the schoolyard gate to their children when Jamie had convinced the school to start serving healthy and delicious meals. His Don Quixote like crusade to improve the food culture of the English is worthy of praise and makes him much more remarkable than most TV chefs.
Re:Jamie Oliver's TED Prize wish: Teach every child about food
by henrikschroder on Friday February 12, 2010 @08:51PM
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That parents do that to their kids is sad on so many levels. :-(
I think Oliver clearly identifies a problem (and quite passionately believes in what he says), but the solution seems squishy - "fighting obesity" and "education" are great ideas but when you empower people with bad ideas that's probably worse than useless. Besides, the problem isn't educating the kids but the parents.