This past Friday night I watched Jamie Oliver (formerly the Naked Chef) in the two-hour premier of his new prime-time TV show, called Food Revolution. It was a shocking show to watch -- and a good look into the problems we face as a country, or better yet, as humanity.
The show is based around the fattest town in the world, Henderson, West Virginia, and Jamie's attempt to help the townspeople learn how to eat right, one school at a time. What's shocking isn't just the awfulness of the food that people eat, and serve to children, but their smugness that they don't need to change (and that there's nothing wrong with what they are doing), as well as the crazy USDA bureaucracy that makes it hard for people to change their diets.
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