<p>Maybe chef Jaime Oliver should rename his TV show ‘Food Fight,’ rather than ‘Food Revolution’ because the Los Angeles United School District is giving him fits.</p>
<p>If you watched last night’s episode you saw the stone wall he ran into when he proposed his idea to introduce healthy menus into the Los Angeles school lunch. The coming attractions preview at the end of the show dipicted the LAPD being called to prevent him from setting foot in a school cafeteria. Wow!</p>
<p>What a contrast between last season’s experience in Huntington, WV and the reception he’s received so far in sunny California. I thought all you Californians were health nuts. No offense.</p>
<p>I watched it last night also. Apparently, many of the parents are behind Jamie Oliver - it’s the school board that opposes this. He looked so exasperated throughout the episode.</p>
<p>LAUSD asked that Jamie Oliver follow the same budget constraints that they are under. He could not(or would not) do it. As much as I dislike LAUSD, they do have a point.</p>
<p>Musicamusica, budgets must be adhered to, but as a nation we’d better look in the mirror and face the cold and hard fact that the preponderance of processed food and high-calorie food in children’s (and adults, for that matter) diet is costing us big money in health care expenditures. I’m all for choice…if someone wants to eat his or her way into oblivion, that’s their exercise of free will. I’d prefer some options in the school lunch menu. There must be some lower cost alternatives. Not every fish or cut of beef or pork is expensive. And the cost of fresh chicken in this country has been cheap for decades.</p>
<p>well of course. But he should be first arguing that the budget must be increased. You cannot feed kids properly at .70 per head. That’s my point.
Sadly enough, lunches are the least of that school districts problem</p>