11 February 2010

Teach every child about food: Jamie Oliver's TED Prize wish, now on TED.com

Sharing powerful stories from his anti-obesity project in Huntington, W. Va., 2010 TED Prize winner Jamie Oliver makes the case for an all-out assault on our ignorance of food. (Recorded at TED2010, February 2010 in Long Beach, CA. Duration: 21:53)

Watch Jamie Oliver’s TED Prize talk on TED.com, where you can download this TEDTalk, rate it, comment on it and find other talks and performances from our archive of 600+ TEDTalks.

Discuss this Blog Post

Animesh G
Feb 11 2010
Hi, is there a higher def version of this?

Thanks and keep up the great work.
- Liz McLellan
  Feb 12 2010
  Grow your own. Don’t have space? Join a yardsharing group! Every school, every church or mosque or synagogue can plant a garden. We can get your neighborhood going tomorrow. Anyone anywhere can start a yard or garden sharing group – share seeds, tools, time, skills, physical strength, wisdom and yard space.
  We can help!
  Food is cheaper, we all get exercise, we all learn about biology… it’s not expensive!
  Gather your resources and grow together.
Liz McLellan
Feb 12 2010
also – terrorism? It doesn’t even make his list. Our perception of actual risk is so distorted.

Why have we lost our perspective? I lived in nyc at the time, and spent two years 17 floors above ground zero watching the hole get dug out from above. You would think that it would be the top of my list but it’s not on my list either.

We are being told to focus somewhere else – terrorism is not our biggest problem.
Ganeshvel Thangavelu
Mar 12 2010
Jamie you are the man. Food the largest Killer in the world..

I hope lot of people have watched this video..
David Nichols
Mar 14 2010
Amazing. We truly are what we eat.

David
http://simplegoodandtasty.com
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