Isn’t this what Michelle Obama tried to do? What would you (or anyone else wanting to pitch in) suggest for policies?
Jamie Oliver as well in the UK. People STILL hate him for trying to feed their kids better than they could. The strength of the desire in people to make life worse for themselves and everyone else makes me hate this fucking country.
I remember having an argument with a friend about algebra in schools. Her kid was struggling, so she said why does he need to learn it, he can just get a job like hers where it’s not needed. Every other post of hers on Facebook was complaining about her crappy job.
There’s a strange mentality here that we’re all struggling, but nobody should be doing better. If someone does try, they get called out for it and shamed.
The problem with wealthy influencers like him is they always promote expensive food items with meaningless qualifiers. Local, organic, free range, natural etc don’t mean shit when you are broke. Teach people how to make healthy dishes with conventionallly grown foods you can buy at Walmart or whatever because that’s where the people who need help the most shop. Familiar foods, Vegetables. Beans. Rice. Lentils. Chicken. Nuts. Etc. not EVO, spaghetti squash, and “organic” chanterelles.
The upper middle class people who shop at Whole Foods don’t need a Jamie Oliver. And that’s what his target audience was/is.
Make healthy food cheaper and tax junk food heavily. My dad recently moved to Ecuador and he’s eating like a king - fruit is like a 5th of the price there than it is where I am in the US.
Now I’m not expecting fruit at a 5th of the price lol, but making it reasonably priced at all would be a welcome change.
Healthy school meals, making healthy food cheaper, taxing junk food, but I think the most helpful would be to heavily limit advertising of junk food, especially advertising to children.
I really feel like heavy restrictions on advertising would genuinely help with a range of different issues in the modern world.
I love the advertising idea, the tax idea idk. Havent they tried taxing junk food and it’s never worked out? Either through general outrage or people circumventing it
Yeah, the taxing one is quite controversial and I don’t know if I necessarily agree with it.
But, the sugar tax in the UK seems to have had a positive impact so far, from what I’ve seen it’s reduced childhood obesity and dental issues.
Start by reversing some of the bullshit decisions Congress made. Like how they decided pizza was a vegetable.
https://www.thejournal.ie/us-congress-rules-that-pizza-is-a-vegetable-282033-Nov2011/
It’s a wonder Americans can actually get any good health advice when everything is a marketing gimmick or flat out lie. But when our own government is just rolling over while businesses legally poison the majority of the population is just insane to me. We don’t have to stop individuals making their own choices to fight back against some of this insanity. And proper information is a good starting point. No more deceptive advertising. No more saying your cheese when you’re not. No more “Wyngs” or other bullshit naming only designed to deceive.
I think the FTC should crack down on deceptive advertising too.
No more saying your cheese when you’re not. No more “Wyngs” or other bullshit naming only designed to deceive.
But these are not the most pressing issues. Call your product whatever name you want, I just want to know exactly what’s in it.
I agree that calling something “cheese” when it’s “dehydrated oil shreds” or something is deceptive. Saw that today at Whole Foods. No, it’s not healthier; it just doesn’t have dairy.
Lack of dairy or gluten doesn’t make things healthier. Those ingredients aren’t replaced with air. They’re usually replaced with something that sounds disgusting. But food companies don’t want to put that on the package so they list what it doesn’t have.
Adam Ruins Everything: ever wonder why cheese is everywhere? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYI9uUl1Ey4
Did what? What the hell are we debating here, rotating your plate of vegetables? I don’t get this meme.
