Ann Cooper: Reinventing the school lunch

http://www.ted.com Speaking at the 2007 EG conference, "renegade lunch lady" Ann Cooper talks about the coming revolution in the way kids eat at school -- local, sustainable, seasonal and even educational food.

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[atarijen]

Of course it is about choice! And we DON'T HAVE ONE!!!! I have to pack every day because there is nothing suitable for my kids to eat at school. A choice would offer healthy and a smaller selection of snacks.

[Tom White]

Well, what about the antibiotics? If we eat those, we make anti-biotic resistant bacteria much faster.

[magicalflowers]

Awesome! Never thought about the recess before lunch...Genious!

[LenoraForest]

I hear your passion Ms. Cooper. I do not agree with your food wheel that shows dairy. I'm amazed that people who are educated still believe dairy is a healthy food.

School food is nasty so send a lunch. If nobody buys it they will change the menu.

[crudhousefull]

I thought she was going to lose steam, but she keeps going! Wow

[crudhousefull]

She's really well spoken. Real impressive that she gets up at 4am to do all this. How did we never hear about the diabetes statistics till now? That is incredible!

[stinabeib]

Damn, there are under 43.000 people that have watched this since 2008 and then there are around 200 million that have watched some Lady Gaga video in a year. That's just sad.

[CherylAngelclb]

the tech can make foods better, however, we currently are not using it to do so. if you can make it last longer then you can certainly make it more nutritious.

[Alex Melamed]

We have more prisoners than farmers and we spend more on the inmates than the kids in school...dang.

[Silenus6]

7,500$ a year to teach a child. Compare that to the 1.2 MILLION to keep a soldier in Iraq or Afghanistan. Yup.

[whiterchocolate]

well here is the secret . the schools dont want healthy kids!!!! they whant dumb placid sickly children. dumb so that they cant figure out school is b.s. . placid so they are easly controled and dont ask too many questions. sickly because then big pharma gets all the money selling them their diabeties medicine but i guess most people watching this already know this. anyways good luck everyone. dont forget about the mercury in the high fructose cornsyrup