Food+Revolution+Essay

Obesity is a growing epidemic in these states that are united which make up America, known as the United States of America. It is a combination of eating unhealthy food and not exercising, but for the school to help this it is easier and less expensive to make the food they serve healthier. A lot of the bad tendencies of consuming glucose for the use of your cells to make adenine triphosphate are coming from school cafeterias. Schools serve mainly processed and reheated foods. People have been trying to change the menu and preparation of food at schools, such as celebrity chef Jamie Oliver. He had already sparked a food revolution in the school systems in England and he attempts to do the same in America.

Jamie Oliver went to Huntington, West Virginia to improve the school food program. Most of the food they were serving was processed with little fresh food even available. The kids don’t care what the food is made of; they only care if it satisfies their taste buds. If they don’t know what good food is, then the thing that tastes the best is the good food. And a lot of the time, it is the kind that is worse for you. A lot of kids don’t even have regular access to fresh or healthy food, or even know what it is. “These 17-year-olds leaving school do not have nearly enough basic food facts, such as where honey comes from or how many calories to consume in a day.” (-Jamie) It is shocking that people that have seventeen revolutions around the sun of experience and knowledge gathering, will still think that honey comes from bears. “The next civil rights issue in this country should be proper access to food- and it should be a requirement that every child in America receives food education.”(-Jamie Oliver) A lot of kids don’t even know what certain vegetables are until they are fried and flavored. This problem needs to be fixed.

We can’t blame the kids for not knowing what an eggplant is, but we can blame the schools and parents. They were the ones who were supposed to teach them the simple facts, but they failed to do so. “If a child isn’t taught what real food is, where it comes from and how to make it into a tasty yet affordable meal, how can we expect these kids to know what it’s doing to their bodies?”(-Jamie Oliver) Now it should be a high priority to educate the students and feed them good food. “We need to address the food situation at schools. If we don’t we are failing our kids.” It is up to schools and parents to teach the children because the kids will most likely not teach themselves. And if they don’t know these important health facts, our future is obese. So the only way to stop our wrongdoings is to make good, healthy food and educate the consumers. Although it may take a while, it is a vital necessity. But what we need to do most of all is be a little patient. “The campaign to get people to stop smoking didn’t happen overnight.”

People may think that if the healthy food is better in school than what is there now, then why is it not there right now? Well, it is because kids do not like salads, they want pizza. “We, the students of Roosevelt High School, would like to be served the food that we can enjoy eating, rather than the ‘healthier’ food that we just throw way.”(-Various Roosevelt High Students) Another reason why it is hard to make fresh, healthy food, is that it is often more expensive, and they also take longer to make. “It is easy to sell cheap food.”(-Jamie Oliver) With all of these problems, it seems impossible, but it will benefit the future in every way. My solution to the problem is to make kids eat their food, they will eventually begin enjoying it. Another way is to put everything in a fat free, sugar free chocolate glaze. Who wouldn’t want to eat chocolate lasagna?

Personally, I don’t really care if the food is changed because I do not participate in the purchasing of the chow. When I do, I am satisfies with the food in which I receive. It is acceptable if the food does not kill me. So if it changes it won’t directly affect me, but it would be best if they did change. What matters to me the most is to improve the health of this fine country. So I would prefer the change so we can be back on top!

The school cafeteria system is currently imperfect. Society would greatly benefit if there were a change in the health of the food. The change would not be that difficult, but some people might be sad. With a little help and a lot of brainwashing, we can improve the physical health of our future. We can do it, but we need everyone to step up and try.