Jamie Oliver is oliver the place!
Thursday’s Working for Change: Is it just me, or are we all seeing Jamie Oliver all over these days? And I haven’t even seen Jamie’s Food Revolution USA show on ABC (we don’t have a television that gets channels since we opted to not get a converter when it went digital, so now we just watch DVDs and skip all the network/cable stuff). From everything I’ve read, Oliver, while not at all vegan or vegetarian, is doing a good thing by at least bringing the issue of the sad state of the Standard American Diet to prime time. Especially with kids and school lunches, it appears that Oliver is willing to stick his neck out and say how truly atrocious the food is that America’s school system gives to its children. Oliver has a better food in schools petition posted on his website that he plans to give to the government that, as of today, more than 150,000 people (including me) have signed. I hope you consider signing it, too.
Do I wish Oliver was promoting veganism as the way to solve America’s food ills? Yes. Would I prefer that he was petitioning to get vegan (or even just more vegetarian) school lunch options in schools? Sure. But I’m just thankful to Oliver that he’s making the better food for America conversation more mainstream so that all food and health opinions — including the vegan voices — will be taken more seriously as part of a larger and extremely important conversation.
