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[bongo music]

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- I\'m Safiyah.

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- And I\'m Sadie.

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- I live on 4th Street.

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- I live on Grand Street.

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- We live in New York City.

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- In the United States.

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- In North America.

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- In the world.

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- We both go to public school.

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- And we both have big families.

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- With little brothers.

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- And this is our neighborhood.

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- Welcome.

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[both giggling]

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- So last summer,

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Safiyah went with my family
to Ohio for vacation.

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- When we weren\'t
playing around, swimming...

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- Or eating ice cream.

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- Or eating ice cream.

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- We did a little cooking.

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Mmm.

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- One night,
we were in charge of the salad.

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- And while we were making it,
I tasted a cherry tomato.

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This is the best cherry tomato
I\'ve ever had.

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- It didn\'t taste like

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a cherry tomato
from the supermarket.

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- And it was better
than the tomatoes at school.

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- Why was it so good?

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- So I asked my mom,

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\"Where did you get
these cherry tomatoes?\"

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- Turns out, the farm
was only a few miles away.

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- Then my mom said,
\"You want to meet the farmers?\"

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both:
And before you knew it,

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we were making a little movie.

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- Well, we grow probably
25 different types of tomatoes.

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I try to find the best tomato,
you know,

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like the best yellow
or the best orange one.

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- Did you always want
to have an organic farm?

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- I don\'t want to eat things

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that are sprayed with all kinds
of different chemicals.

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You know,
if I\'m going to grow something,

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I\'m not going
to grow it that way.

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- Mmm.

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- When we got back home
to New York City,

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we had a lot more questions.

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- What\'s the difference between
the food we saw on the farm

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and the food around here?

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- And where does
the food around here come from?

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- And what is it made of?

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- And what is a Funyun?

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- Our questions
just led to more questions.

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- What\'s good for you to eat?

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- What\'s not good
for you to eat?

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- Why is there food
that\'s not good for you?

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- What makes people decide
to eat what they eat?

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- I don\'t know.

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- Me either.

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Both: Hmm.

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- Well, that\'s okay,
\'cause we\'re on the case.

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- And we\'re going to do
everything we can to find out...

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both: What\'s on your plate?

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- And where\'d it come from?

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- Yeah.

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- Okay, here.

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- This one\'s the mini mic.

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- Hello, hello, hello.

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What\'s on your plate?

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- How can our movie
answer that big...

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- But simple.

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- But simple question?

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Where do we start?

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- We can interview people.

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We could go places
and look at packaging.

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Israel.

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- We could go to more farms

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and read magazines and books.

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- We could ask people...

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- What do they like to eat

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and do they know
where it comes from?

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And we can go online.

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- New York state vegetables.

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- Brussels sprouts, cabbage,
carrots, cauliflower.

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- Peas, peppers,
potatoes, pumpkins.

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- All of these things
grow in New York.

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We should put them on our list
for the map.

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- We\'re going to show
how boats ship food

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across the world.

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- So this is a huge map
right here.

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And we are going to show you

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what we import to New York City
and the U.S.

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- We grow apples
all around the world,

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so we have them in New Zealand,
over here.

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- In New York State.

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- New York State,

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but we figured out that

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we actually get them
from Washington State...

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- Which is...

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- Which is over here.

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[both giggling]

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- I knew that.

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- We also get it from Turkey.

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- And from France.

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- Look at all this smog
that this causes.

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People don\'t realize
how much food

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has to do with global warming.

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If you\'re just shipping,
like, an apple...

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- Across the world.

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It\'s farther than China.

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I think.

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Even across the country.

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- Yeah.

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- Why?

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It doesn\'t make any sense.

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Once, our class
went apple picking

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in upstate New York.

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It took
about a two-hour bus ride,

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but that was it.

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It was a really nice day.

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We just got to, like,
pick apples,

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take them home, and eat them,

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which was really good.

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- Smog.

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- And imagine getting
these apples from New York.

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- Yeah,
it\'s like half of a smog.

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- Take away all of these smogs.

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- Now we have to put
all the rest of them on.

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Peaches.

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- Bananas.

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- Central America
and some Africa.

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- China.

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- Avocados.

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- Indonesia.

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Russia.

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- And these are clementines?

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- They do not grow mangoes
in New York.

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- Where\'s Tanzania?

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- I think it\'s around here?

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This will help on our geography.

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- Georgia.

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Arkansas,
where I don\'t know where it is.

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- I\'m going to add
some beets right there.

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- We use corn a lot
in this country.

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- Now a lot of farms
in the Midwest,

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they\'ve changed
to just growing corn

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from carrots and beets
and asparagus and spinach

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and all this other good stuff

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that people could actually eat.

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- We heard
they\'re growing all this corn

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to make gas for our cars.

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- And to make
high-fructose corn syrup.

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New York\'s getting
a little bit crowded.

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We import, like, all of this

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when we still grow it
in New York.

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And this is what happens

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when we ship food
from all over the world.

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- Smog!

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- Smog!

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- Squeaky.

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[lively guitar music]

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We\'ve got some problems here.

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- Yeah, I agree with Sadie.

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- Mama, Ma, Mama, Ma, Mama.

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- Since I was a baby,

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I have eaten
just like my family.

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- There she is,
seven, soon to be eight.

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- See the carrot?

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See the carrot?

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New York food,

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food from all different cultures

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from all over the world.

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Oh, my gosh.

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When I was eight,

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I had my blood taken
at the doctor,

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and I found out that
I had really high cholesterol.

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Hello.

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- How are you?

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- Good.

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It\'s the genetic kind.

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It runs in my family.

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May I film you?

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- Yes, you may.

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How about if mom films you

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getting your blood drawn?

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Starting now.

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- Which arm is it gonna be on?

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It\'s gonna be...

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- Your choice.

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- Which one?

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Hey, did I say
you could film me?

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Now I have to have
my blood drawn every year.

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I hate that.

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And I have to watch what I eat.

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- And we are done.

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- Ow.
- Push on there.

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- Could I see my blood again?

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- You may.

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- Hi, Daddy.

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- Hi, Daddy.

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I was born into
a family of vegetarians.

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- You have broccoli?
Show me.

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- [gasps]

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Sadie and I
got to be good friends

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in the fourth grade.

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- And we got to know
each other\'s families.

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- What a lovely family.

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- I know.
I\'m so hungry.

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- Can I have
a vegetarian burrito, please?

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- What\'d you get?
Like, a large guacamole...

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- A lonely burrito.

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- What kind of food
do you eat at home?

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- We make
a lot of the same stuff

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that meat eaters eat,

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except for we just make
the vegetarian version,

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like lasagna,
but put vegetables in it

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and cheese instead of meat.

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- And we eat chili.

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- Chili, we make chili, like,
with different kinds of beans.

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- So, Kofa, where do you think

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your food right there
comes from?

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- I think they get
the beans from fields

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and the lettuce
from a different field.

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And then I don\'t know
where the rice comes from.

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- So where do you think
the lettuce and the beans grow?

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- Um, in a farm
or something like that.

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- So where do you think
the farm is?

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- I think it\'s in a suburb
or something.

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[electric guitar music]

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- Good morning, 610.

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Guys, come on in, please.

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Okay, I woke up this morning,

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got ready for work.

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I\'m thirsty.

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So I decided to buy

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Tropicana 100% juice apple juice

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from concentrate.

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Hmm, what\'s this concentrate?

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It contains concentrates
from Germany, Austria, Italy,

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Hungary, Argentina,
Chile, Turkey,

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Brazil, China,
and the United States.

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And I said, \"Wait a minute.

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\"Why would I have to have
ingredients

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from nine
different countries?\"

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I\'ve had this before.
It tastes good.

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And I know one thing;
it\'s very, very sweet,

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which is kind of bringing me
into calories,

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what calories are.

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- Calories are for energy,

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to, like,
make you work them off.

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- How much
you\'re going to get out of it.

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- Yeah.

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- Has anybody ever heard of
empty calories?

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An empty calorie

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has no nutritional value
whatsoever.

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Let\'s say I have
a tablespoon full of sugar.

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There are no minerals.

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There are no vitamins.

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Today you\'re gonna burn
some marshmallows, some walnuts,

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and some...
They call these things Funyuns.

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I want you to find out
which one burns longer,

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which one of these foods
has more energy.

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Now you\'re going
to get a beaker,

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20 milliliters of water,

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and you\'re going
to use a stopwatch.

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The wick holder takes the wick
and lights the food.

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Make sure your stopwatches
are on zero.

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Start, stop, here.

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- It\'s getting bigger.

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- Oh, it\'s, like, dripping.

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It\'s, like, dripping!

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- Hey, Sam,
the stopwatch is going, right?

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- Yeah, it\'s going.

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- Almost a minute.

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- Whoa,
it\'s still burning strong.

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We\'re raising the temperature,
like, so much.

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- 13 seconds and 70...

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- Oh, that\'s...
What degrees is it?

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- 88.

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- Whoa.
This is lasting a long time.

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- Isn\'t it?

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- Oh, the walnut\'s going
to overdo the Funyun.

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- The Funyun is, like,
full of oil and energy.

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- It\'s, like,
deep-fried five times.

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- I\'ll try it.

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Oh.

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- Almost two minutes.
- Oh, my God.

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- What\'s the temperature?

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- There\'s stuff
oozing out of the bottom.

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We\'re still going, I tell you.

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- This is crazy.

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That\'s one hell of a walnut.

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- 61 degrees Celsius.

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- The walnut temperature change
was 36 degrees.

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- It shows that
if you eat a walnut,

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then you\'re going
to have more energy,

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because it takes longer
for your body

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to burn off all that energy
that the walnut gave to you.

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- Awesome.

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And the choice is yours.

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You can eat unhealthy foods.

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They\'ll make you feel full,

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but you\'re not getting anything
nutritional from them.

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So speaking of energy,
speaking of food,

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it\'s time for lunch.

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And I\'m starving right now.

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Mesa numero cinco.

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- My mom says to me,

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\"You were born
your perfect self.\"

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- And food is best
when it\'s fresh from the ground.

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- So why do they feel
they have to improve it?

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- Cut it open.

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- Smush it.

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- Spray it.

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- Add additives.

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- And preservatives.

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- Slice it up.

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- Add coloring.

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- Fry it.

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- Package it?

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- They make it so

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you\'re pretty hard
to recognize after a while.

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- I mean, you were born perfect.

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- [whistling]

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[gasps]

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- Remember?

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[cash register beeping]

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- I don\'t get it.

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- I really don\'t get it.

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- Seven, eight...

00:13:01.333 --> 00:13:03.833
- We need to dig deeper.

00:13:03.867 --> 00:13:06.600
- Maybe it\'s time
to talk to an expert.

00:13:06.633 --> 00:13:08.300
- Yeah.

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- Let\'s talk to the writer
and activist Anna Lappé.

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- She could help us
figure this out.

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- Why do they package stuff?

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- You mean, why don\'t we just,
like, eat the whole food and...

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- Yeah.
- Yeah.

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It\'s been a way
for food companies

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to make more money,

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make more profit
off of what they make,

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because you look at
just a carrot.

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You can only sell it
for so much,

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but if you transform that carrot

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into some kind
of special carrot soup

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with your brand name on it,
you can charge a lot more

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than if you\'re
just selling a carrot.

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But I think it
also has to do with

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the food companies realizing
that so many of us

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are so stretched for time,

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have kind of capitalized on that
and sold us the,

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\"Hey, we\'ll give you this pizza,

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\"and you can stick it
in that machine,

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\"and 30 seconds later,

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you\'ll have dinner
for your families.\"

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- When we read ingredients
on stuff,

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we see high-fructose corn syrup
a lot,

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and we were wondering,
what is it?

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- Well, from its name, right,

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you know it comes from corn.

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And it\'s a way
of processing the corn

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to get the sugars out of it.

00:14:02.867 --> 00:14:05.100
It was invented in the 1970s,

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and now it\'s found
in so many different food items,

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places you
wouldn\'t even suspect.

00:14:10.567 --> 00:14:12.533
The egg salad sandwich
at Starbucks

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had high-fructose corn syrup.

00:14:13.800 --> 00:14:15.800
We don\'t need to be
consuming it.

00:14:15.833 --> 00:14:19.367
And it is one
of the most highly consumed

00:14:19.400 --> 00:14:21.233
form of empty calories.

00:14:21.267 --> 00:14:24.400
We all know we need calories
to feed ourselves, to survive.

00:14:24.433 --> 00:14:26.933
We all have a slightly different
amount of calories

00:14:26.967 --> 00:14:29.433
we need every day depending
on our age, our activity.

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But what we don\'t need
are empty calories.

00:14:33.333 --> 00:14:37.967
- People say,
\"You are what you eat.\"

00:14:38.000 --> 00:14:40.467
- Makes me wonder,
what are kids made of?

00:14:40.500 --> 00:14:43.500
[baby crying]

00:14:46.033 --> 00:14:47.667
[warbling tone]

00:14:47.700 --> 00:14:50.700
[microwave dings]

00:15:01.433 --> 00:15:02.500
- So what was it like...

00:15:02.533 --> 00:15:04.267
- This... no wait.
This playground is cursed.

00:15:04.300 --> 00:15:05.267
Let me just tell you that.

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- It\'s cursed?

00:15:06.600 --> 00:15:08.400
I\'ve always just really been
interested in food

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but always been interested
in the sort of duality of it,

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that there\'s food food,
like, real food,

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and then there\'s the food stuff.

00:15:14.200 --> 00:15:15.200
You know what I mean?

00:15:15.233 --> 00:15:16.533
- Foodish.
- Like, the foodish.

00:15:16.567 --> 00:15:17.533
There\'s all these foods

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that, like,
nobody knows what it is.

00:15:19.100 --> 00:15:20.733
- Our friend Idris...

00:15:20.767 --> 00:15:22.467
- Who\'s a poet and a teacher...

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- Knows a lot about food.

00:15:24.367 --> 00:15:26.200
- We\'re bringing him
to our old school

00:15:26.233 --> 00:15:28.033
to perform his food poem.

00:15:28.067 --> 00:15:29.767
- And to talk about our movie.

00:15:29.800 --> 00:15:30.800
- Funyun!

00:15:30.833 --> 00:15:34.267
- Man, we should read
the ingredients.

00:15:34.300 --> 00:15:35.800
We\'ve got a lot of corn.

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Let\'s read it off together.

00:15:36.900 --> 00:15:37.867
- Ooh, corn, corn, corn.

00:15:37.900 --> 00:15:39.433
All: Enriched cornmeal.

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- Cornmeal.

00:15:40.533 --> 00:15:42.433
All: Ferrous sulfate.

00:15:42.467 --> 00:15:44.400
- Niacin,
got to have your niacin.

00:15:44.433 --> 00:15:46.333
All: Maltodextrin.

00:15:46.367 --> 00:15:47.633
- Which is just corn, basically.

00:15:47.667 --> 00:15:50.867
- Hy-dro-lyzed soy protein.

00:15:50.900 --> 00:15:52.867
All: Corn and/or...

00:15:52.900 --> 00:15:54.667
- And/or soybean oil!

00:15:54.700 --> 00:15:56.000
- Wait, wait,
what does that mean?

00:15:56.033 --> 00:15:57.000
- \"And/or\"?

00:15:57.033 --> 00:15:58.233
- Why do they have, like,
and/or?

00:15:58.267 --> 00:15:59.667
- It could be...
it could be corn?

00:15:59.700 --> 00:16:02.200
All: Salt, cornstarch,

00:16:02.233 --> 00:16:05.367
soy flour, sugar, corn flour,

00:16:05.400 --> 00:16:06.433
onion powder.

00:16:06.467 --> 00:16:07.500
- Finally an onion.

00:16:07.533 --> 00:16:09.033
- So you have, like, a grape,

00:16:09.067 --> 00:16:11.100
and then you have
the natural flavor of a grape.

00:16:11.133 --> 00:16:12.500
You don\'t actually
have the grape.

00:16:12.533 --> 00:16:14.767
- Mmm.
That tastes natural.

00:16:14.800 --> 00:16:16.033
How are you guys doing today?

00:16:16.067 --> 00:16:17.333
All: Good.

00:16:17.367 --> 00:16:18.333
- That\'s great.

00:16:18.367 --> 00:16:19.767
This seems
like a wonderful school.

00:16:19.800 --> 00:16:21.200
You guys like
where you go to school?

00:16:21.233 --> 00:16:22.300
All: Yes.

00:16:22.333 --> 00:16:23.733
- I worked in this school
in Chicago.

00:16:23.767 --> 00:16:26.467
They had this really horrible
food there, right?

00:16:26.500 --> 00:16:28.433
And so the big truck
would come in the morning,

00:16:28.467 --> 00:16:29.667
and out of
the back of the truck,

00:16:29.700 --> 00:16:31.267
he\'d pull this big tray,

00:16:31.300 --> 00:16:33.000
and it would be full
of sloppy joes,

00:16:33.033 --> 00:16:36.400
and one side of the sloppy joes
would be burnt,

00:16:36.433 --> 00:16:38.767
and the other side of
the sloppy joes would be frozen.

00:16:38.800 --> 00:16:39.967
And in the middle, there\'d be

00:16:40.000 --> 00:16:42.267
some kind of combination
of burnt and frozen.

00:16:42.300 --> 00:16:43.333
And so subsequently,

00:16:43.367 --> 00:16:45.433
the students
would not eat the food.

00:16:45.467 --> 00:16:48.267
And so they would get lunch
from the gas station.

00:16:48.300 --> 00:16:50.167
And does anybody know
what kind of food they have

00:16:50.200 --> 00:16:51.167
at the gas station?

00:16:51.200 --> 00:16:52.240
- Junk food?
- Greasy food.

00:16:52.267 --> 00:16:53.400
- Greasy stuff.
Yes, yes.

00:16:53.433 --> 00:16:55.367
And so I began
to notice a trend,

00:16:55.400 --> 00:16:57.467
and I wrote this poem as result.

00:16:57.500 --> 00:16:58.467
Are you ready?

00:16:58.500 --> 00:16:59.467
All: Yes.

00:16:59.500 --> 00:17:00.667
- All right, here we go.

00:17:00.700 --> 00:17:03.533
It goes like this.
Ahem.

00:17:03.567 --> 00:17:04.533
You sure you\'re ready?

00:17:04.567 --> 00:17:05.533
All: Yes!

00:17:05.567 --> 00:17:07.367
- Okay, okay.

00:17:07.400 --> 00:17:08.933
Does anybody
have to go to the bathroom?

00:17:08.967 --> 00:17:09.933
All: No!

00:17:09.967 --> 00:17:11.433
- Okay, here we go.

00:17:11.467 --> 00:17:13.100
What is they feeding our kids?

00:17:13.133 --> 00:17:14.100
Tell me.

00:17:14.133 --> 00:17:15.800
Vanessa\'s 15 years old,

00:17:15.833 --> 00:17:18.167
and Vanessa\'s
eating red-hot Cheetos

00:17:18.200 --> 00:17:19.833
at 10:00 in the morning.

00:17:19.867 --> 00:17:22.367
She\'s snapping
her bright red fingers.

00:17:22.400 --> 00:17:23.933
What is they feeding our kids?

00:17:23.967 --> 00:17:25.967
Big white gas station bags,

00:17:26.000 --> 00:17:27.467
partially hydrogenated oils

00:17:27.500 --> 00:17:29.433
pollute the coiled intestines
like a scourge.

00:17:29.467 --> 00:17:33.600
Somebody tell me,
what is a Funyun?

00:17:33.633 --> 00:17:35.667
Strange fruit is hanging
in that vending machine

00:17:35.700 --> 00:17:37.433
just like a drug dealer
whispering,

00:17:37.467 --> 00:17:39.933
\"Psst, psst, only 65 cents,

00:17:39.967 --> 00:17:42.600
only 65 cents
to get your mouth hot.\"

00:17:42.633 --> 00:17:44.133
Martisha forgets her lunch.

00:17:44.167 --> 00:17:45.733
We tell her,
\"Have some fruit.\"

00:17:45.767 --> 00:17:47.933
She says,
\"I ain\'t no vegetarian,\"

00:17:47.967 --> 00:17:49.767
as if she\'s ever seen one.

00:17:49.800 --> 00:17:51.267
At Evanston Township
High School,

00:17:51.300 --> 00:17:53.500
they get veggie burgers
in the cafeteria.

00:17:53.533 --> 00:17:55.533
At Kelvyn Park
on the northwest side,

00:17:55.567 --> 00:17:57.733
they get the
No Child Left Behind special:

00:17:57.767 --> 00:17:58.867
Tater Tots.

00:17:58.900 --> 00:18:01.100
Putting stains on their
white T-shirt uniforms,

00:18:01.133 --> 00:18:02.433
and by noon, by noon,

00:18:02.467 --> 00:18:04.433
they\'re easily riled
like hornets,

00:18:04.467 --> 00:18:06.500
totally unfocused pores,

00:18:06.533 --> 00:18:09.400
clogged wheels,
deep-fried arteries,

00:18:09.433 --> 00:18:10.933
short-term batteries.

00:18:10.967 --> 00:18:15.100
Tell me,
what is they feeding our kids?

00:18:15.133 --> 00:18:16.200
[applause]

00:18:16.233 --> 00:18:18.767
Thank you very much.

00:18:18.800 --> 00:18:21.067
If you guys
have any questions at all,

00:18:21.100 --> 00:18:22.933
I can\'t wait to hear
these questions.

00:18:22.967 --> 00:18:25.433
- My name is Georgia,
and I\'m from Lauren P.\'s class.

00:18:25.467 --> 00:18:27.967
Do you think food
in school cafeterias

00:18:28.000 --> 00:18:30.700
have gotten better or worse
in the last couple years?

00:18:30.733 --> 00:18:32.300
- Are you concerned
about how much

00:18:32.333 --> 00:18:35.367
high-fructose corn syrup
there is in everything?

00:18:35.400 --> 00:18:37.367
- Um, like, does it hurt you

00:18:37.400 --> 00:18:41.233
if you, like, try those, like,
Cheetos or stuff like that?

00:18:41.267 --> 00:18:43.100
- Do you think this movie

00:18:43.133 --> 00:18:45.267
is going to make people
think more about

00:18:45.300 --> 00:18:46.467
our school\'s lunch?

00:18:46.500 --> 00:18:48.567
And do you think
this will change

00:18:48.600 --> 00:18:50.700
other people\'s perspective
on it?

00:18:50.733 --> 00:18:52.200
- Yes.

00:18:52.233 --> 00:18:55.233
- We clearly have our work
cut out for us.

00:18:55.267 --> 00:18:58.167
- Do you guys think
that kids like the food

00:18:58.200 --> 00:18:59.400
that they get at these schools?

00:18:59.433 --> 00:19:00.533
- No.

00:19:00.567 --> 00:19:01.700
- They know it\'s not so great,

00:19:01.733 --> 00:19:03.733
\'cause it doesn\'t look
appealing,

00:19:03.767 --> 00:19:06.167
and it doesn\'t taste appealing.

00:19:06.200 --> 00:19:07.667
- Yeah.

00:19:07.700 --> 00:19:09.833
I just don\'t feel like good food
should be a luxury,

00:19:09.867 --> 00:19:11.100
not in this day and age.

00:19:11.133 --> 00:19:12.967
It seems like one
of the most basic rights

00:19:13.000 --> 00:19:14.700
that everybody has in a society.

00:19:14.733 --> 00:19:16.033
- In the private schools,

00:19:16.067 --> 00:19:17.567
they have some organic food,

00:19:17.600 --> 00:19:20.267
and they have soup
and a salad bar,

00:19:20.300 --> 00:19:22.267
and then they still have
the entrée and so...

00:19:22.300 --> 00:19:24.300
- Ooh.

00:19:24.333 --> 00:19:25.900
It\'s not just about the food

00:19:25.933 --> 00:19:27.067
or good food or bad food.

00:19:27.100 --> 00:19:28.400
I mean, it\'s about availability.

00:19:28.433 --> 00:19:29.600
It\'s about access.

00:19:29.633 --> 00:19:30.767
That\'s why it\'s so important

00:19:30.800 --> 00:19:31.867
what you guys are doing.

00:19:31.900 --> 00:19:34.467
It\'s really important, you know?

00:19:34.500 --> 00:19:37.500
[kids all talking at once]

00:19:43.833 --> 00:19:44.967
- Do you have a reason

00:19:45.000 --> 00:19:46.900
for picking the lunch
that you picked?

00:19:46.933 --> 00:19:49.400
- Yeah, I like chicken,

00:19:49.433 --> 00:19:51.233
and I like vegetarian food.

00:19:51.267 --> 00:19:53.433
- Do you always choose
the same lunch?

00:19:53.467 --> 00:19:55.067
- Yes.

00:19:55.100 --> 00:19:58.033
- What did you have
for lunch today?

00:19:58.067 --> 00:20:01.233
- Rice cakes, cheese,
yogurt, and an apple.

00:20:01.267 --> 00:20:02.433
- Pepper jack turkey,

00:20:02.467 --> 00:20:05.200
cheese, and mustard
on white bread.

00:20:05.233 --> 00:20:08.767
- Fish, eggs, apples, and rice.

00:20:08.800 --> 00:20:11.233
- Pears, honey roasted peanuts,
and goldfish.

00:20:11.267 --> 00:20:12.433
- Do you usually get

00:20:12.467 --> 00:20:15.800
the hot lunch
for school lunch or PB&J?

00:20:15.833 --> 00:20:18.100
- Hot lunch.

00:20:18.133 --> 00:20:20.300
- Is it better than PB&J?

00:20:20.333 --> 00:20:21.400
- Yes, sir.

00:20:21.433 --> 00:20:23.933
[both giggling]

00:20:25.200 --> 00:20:27.633
- We heard that New York City
hired a real chef

00:20:27.667 --> 00:20:30.100
to make school food healthier.

00:20:30.133 --> 00:20:33.200
- For almost
a million kids a day.

00:20:33.233 --> 00:20:39.167
- So we went to Queens
to ask him some questions.

00:20:39.200 --> 00:20:40.333
Hi.
- Hello, hi.

00:20:40.367 --> 00:20:41.333
- Hi, I\'m Safiyah.

00:20:41.367 --> 00:20:42.400
- Hi, Safiyah.
Chef Jorge.

00:20:42.433 --> 00:20:43.633
- Hi, I\'m Eric.
Nice to meet you.

00:20:43.667 --> 00:20:44.633
- I\'m Sadie.
- Hi.

00:20:44.667 --> 00:20:45.900
- Have a seat.

00:20:45.933 --> 00:20:47.900
- What was school lunch like
when you were a kid?

00:20:47.933 --> 00:20:49.533
- When I was little?
- Yeah.

00:20:49.567 --> 00:20:52.100
- It was pretty,
you know, basic.

00:20:52.133 --> 00:20:54.433
You know, we all got
used to mystery meat

00:20:54.467 --> 00:20:57.433
that we weren\'t quite sure
what it was.

00:20:57.467 --> 00:20:58.600
It was a lot different

00:20:58.633 --> 00:21:00.167
than what we\'re offering
to our kids

00:21:00.200 --> 00:21:03.200
in New York City today.

00:21:03.233 --> 00:21:07.000
- When the food program
first started after World War I,

00:21:07.033 --> 00:21:08.967
it started
as a nutritional program.

00:21:09.000 --> 00:21:10.633
The soldiers
were rejected by the army,

00:21:10.667 --> 00:21:11.800
\'cause they were too skinny

00:21:11.833 --> 00:21:13.767
or they suffered
from malnutrition.

00:21:13.800 --> 00:21:16.900
So there was this movement
that grew up saying,

00:21:16.933 --> 00:21:18.767
\"Well, we need
to feed our kids better.\"

00:21:18.800 --> 00:21:21.167
And it really wasn\'t
until the \'60s

00:21:21.200 --> 00:21:24.000
where the focus shifted
from a nutritional program

00:21:24.033 --> 00:21:25.800
to an antihunger program.

00:21:25.833 --> 00:21:28.600
And what we\'re trying to do
here in New York City now

00:21:28.633 --> 00:21:31.333
by bringing on Chef Jorge
is have them coexist.

00:21:31.367 --> 00:21:33.100
- What does \"healthy food\"
mean to me?

00:21:33.133 --> 00:21:35.433
It means food
that is lower in fat

00:21:35.467 --> 00:21:37.767
than what they\'re going to get
at a fast food place,

00:21:37.800 --> 00:21:41.400
that it\'s lower in sodium
than 90% of the products

00:21:41.433 --> 00:21:43.800
that they\'re going buy
in a convenience store,

00:21:43.833 --> 00:21:46.333
that is has no artificial
colors or flavors,

00:21:46.367 --> 00:21:49.033
that it has
no high-fructose corn syrup.

00:21:49.067 --> 00:21:53.067
- We serve approximately
860,000 meals every day.

00:21:53.100 --> 00:21:55.300
So it\'s a huge,
complex organization

00:21:55.333 --> 00:21:56.700
that we\'re trying to manage,

00:21:56.733 --> 00:22:00.833
not only getting children fed,
but getting them fed well.

00:22:00.867 --> 00:22:04.433
- One of the first things we did
was to establish salad bars.

00:22:04.467 --> 00:22:05.433
Kids love salad.

00:22:05.467 --> 00:22:06.767
You like salad, right?
- Yeah.

00:22:06.800 --> 00:22:09.800
- I also find that salad bars
are really fun to use.

00:22:09.833 --> 00:22:11.133
You get to make your own lunch.

00:22:11.167 --> 00:22:13.133
- We just took some stuff
from the salad bar

00:22:13.167 --> 00:22:16.000
and put it on top of the bread.

00:22:16.033 --> 00:22:18.767
- Not only do they like it,
but it adds fiber.

00:22:18.800 --> 00:22:22.167
It adds a lot of nutrients
to their daily intake.

00:22:22.200 --> 00:22:24.100
- Here\'s the problem
for us, though.

00:22:24.133 --> 00:22:25.567
Healthier food costs more.

00:22:25.600 --> 00:22:28.433
We\'re all dependent
on this federal reimbursement.

00:22:28.467 --> 00:22:29.700
And one thing we\'re trying

00:22:29.733 --> 00:22:32.100
to lobby
the federal government on

00:22:32.133 --> 00:22:34.567
is providing school districts
higher reimbursements

00:22:34.600 --> 00:22:35.967
for healthier meals.

00:22:36.000 --> 00:22:37.233
- About a month ago,

00:22:37.267 --> 00:22:40.067
there was this really cool
article about obesity.

00:22:40.100 --> 00:22:41.100
- Mm-hmm.

00:22:41.133 --> 00:22:42.433
- And it has
these three pictures.

00:22:42.467 --> 00:22:43.433
- Okay.

00:22:43.467 --> 00:22:44.433
- And this is the lunch.

00:22:44.467 --> 00:22:45.433
- From the \'50s.
- Yes.

00:22:45.467 --> 00:22:47.133
- We see white bread
with butter.

00:22:47.167 --> 00:22:48.800
- Apple.
Ice cream.

00:22:48.833 --> 00:22:49.800
- Yeah, we see an apple.

00:22:49.833 --> 00:22:51.933
We have ice cream, 100 calories.

00:22:51.967 --> 00:22:53.000
- Pot roast.

00:22:53.033 --> 00:22:54.867
- Mashed potatoes
with more butter.

00:22:54.900 --> 00:22:55.867
- Peas and corn.

00:22:55.900 --> 00:22:57.267
- So all our bread
is whole wheat.

00:22:57.300 --> 00:22:59.500
We don\'t serve ice cream,
and we don\'t use butter.

00:22:59.533 --> 00:23:00.733
Then what\'s on the next page?

00:23:00.767 --> 00:23:02.400
- This is right now.

00:23:02.433 --> 00:23:05.900
- This is a little bit closer,
but you know what?

00:23:05.933 --> 00:23:07.500
There\'s nothing green
on this page.

00:23:07.533 --> 00:23:12.900
- In this whole lunch,
there\'s 1,173 calories.

00:23:12.933 --> 00:23:15.800
And kids are supposed
to have 1,400 calories.

00:23:15.833 --> 00:23:17.067
So that\'s, like...

00:23:17.100 --> 00:23:18.967
- What are you going to eat
for the rest of the day?

00:23:19.000 --> 00:23:20.100
- Exactly.

00:23:20.133 --> 00:23:21.800
And the green page,
this looks much better.

00:23:21.833 --> 00:23:22.800
- Yeah.
- This is our milk.

00:23:22.833 --> 00:23:24.667
You recognize that right, Elmoo?

00:23:24.700 --> 00:23:25.767
Turkey wrap, yep.

00:23:25.800 --> 00:23:27.567
We have fresh fruit,
not strawberries,

00:23:27.600 --> 00:23:29.767
but this looks much more
like one of our trays.

00:23:29.800 --> 00:23:32.400
- What about, we have a Snapple
machine in our lunchroom.

00:23:32.433 --> 00:23:33.400
- Yeah.

00:23:33.433 --> 00:23:34.633
- Ah.

00:23:34.667 --> 00:23:36.433
- A lot of schools
used to have soda machines.

00:23:36.467 --> 00:23:37.467
- Yeah.

00:23:37.500 --> 00:23:39.200
- So we moved
to juice and water.

00:23:39.233 --> 00:23:40.500
You don\'t have to buy a Snapple.

00:23:40.533 --> 00:23:45.833
- But when a kid sees, like,
a Snapple and some milk,

00:23:45.867 --> 00:23:49.633
the kid\'s going to want
the juice, like...

00:23:49.667 --> 00:23:52.833
- I mean, it\'s 100% fruit juice.

00:23:52.867 --> 00:23:54.733
You know, it is what it is.

00:23:54.767 --> 00:23:57.400
- And look, a lot of the money
that we get from Snapple,

00:23:57.433 --> 00:24:00.333
we use to create
physical education programs.

00:24:00.367 --> 00:24:04.333
We\'ve created
140 new sports teams.

00:24:04.367 --> 00:24:06.600
- We\'re all for
kids doing sports,

00:24:06.633 --> 00:24:08.867
but we can\'t run
on empty calories.

00:24:08.900 --> 00:24:11.833
- The sign on our school\'s
Snapple machine says,

00:24:11.867 --> 00:24:13.900
\"Made from the best stuff
on Earth.\"

00:24:13.933 --> 00:24:17.800
- But our science teacher says
that even 100% juice

00:24:17.833 --> 00:24:20.067
is mostly empty calories.

00:24:20.100 --> 00:24:24.200
[upbeat piano music]

00:24:25.633 --> 00:24:29.033
- We found out that students,
parents, and administrators

00:24:29.067 --> 00:24:32.267
are working together
to make school food better.

00:24:32.300 --> 00:24:34.667
- I think that
we were really interested

00:24:34.700 --> 00:24:39.067
in the list you had of food
that was unacceptable,

00:24:39.100 --> 00:24:42.233
that was breaded
or high cholesterol,

00:24:42.267 --> 00:24:44.800
and the alternatives
that you would provide instead.

00:24:44.833 --> 00:24:46.867
- The other school
in the district

00:24:46.900 --> 00:24:48.367
came up with certain items

00:24:48.400 --> 00:24:50.067
that we\'re not allowed
to serve there:

00:24:50.100 --> 00:24:53.400
breaded chicken patty,
breaded chicken nuggets,

00:24:53.433 --> 00:24:56.267
breaded chicken tenders,
Jamaican beef patty,

00:24:56.300 --> 00:24:58.733
fish nuggets,
French bread pizza,

00:24:58.767 --> 00:25:01.533
pepperoni pizza, Tater Tots.

00:25:01.567 --> 00:25:03.667
They\'re all looking like,
\"Oh, no.\"

00:25:03.700 --> 00:25:07.033
- I think it would be good
to try that here too.

00:25:12.267 --> 00:25:15.600
- And sometimes kids get
to give their expert opinions.

00:25:15.633 --> 00:25:18.233
- Food item, chicken salad.

00:25:18.267 --> 00:25:21.533
- This is the worst tasting
chicken salad I ever tasted.

00:25:21.567 --> 00:25:23.533
- It\'s unsatisfactory.

00:25:23.567 --> 00:25:25.600
- It\'s really sourish.

00:25:25.633 --> 00:25:27.667
- I really like it.

00:25:27.700 --> 00:25:30.600
Me, I\'m a big fan of chicken,
like, always.

00:25:30.633 --> 00:25:32.933
It\'s tasty stuff.

00:25:32.967 --> 00:25:34.233
Delicious.

00:25:34.267 --> 00:25:37.367
- This, I have to say,
was the worst thing I ever ate.

00:25:43.433 --> 00:25:45.433
- Some kids
have three meals a day here.

00:25:45.467 --> 00:25:47.033
Some kids come to school hungry,

00:25:47.067 --> 00:25:49.233
and we run down
and get a breakfast for them.

00:25:49.267 --> 00:25:51.200
And you give them lunch,

00:25:51.233 --> 00:25:53.800
and then they have dinner
in the after-school program.

00:25:53.833 --> 00:25:55.700
Recently we had a problem
with the stove.

00:25:55.733 --> 00:25:57.067
So what we have to go through

00:25:57.100 --> 00:25:59.167
to get a new stove
is unbelievable.

00:25:59.200 --> 00:26:02.100
In spite of all that,
Jackie does a really good job,

00:26:02.133 --> 00:26:03.600
but there\'s so much
she can\'t make.

00:26:03.633 --> 00:26:05.167
She can\'t make fresh oatmeal.

00:26:05.200 --> 00:26:07.833
She can\'t make soups
like she wants to do.

00:26:07.867 --> 00:26:08.833
- Pasta.

00:26:08.867 --> 00:26:09.833
- Pasta, right.

00:26:09.867 --> 00:26:13.267
- Chicken stew.

00:26:13.300 --> 00:26:14.833
This is
our walk-in freezer.

00:26:14.867 --> 00:26:17.133
- Does most of the food
come frozen?

00:26:17.167 --> 00:26:19.967
- Frozen, yes.

00:26:20.000 --> 00:26:22.267
These are the famous hamburgers.

00:26:22.300 --> 00:26:24.133
- So nothing\'s homemade?

00:26:24.167 --> 00:26:26.000
- No, everything is precooked.

00:26:26.033 --> 00:26:29.433
So we open it up,
and we pop it in the oven.

00:26:29.467 --> 00:26:32.133
- I know that there are parents
at another school

00:26:32.167 --> 00:26:34.333
who are trying to get
really fresh, nutritious food

00:26:34.367 --> 00:26:35.700
for their kids.

00:26:35.733 --> 00:26:38.600
But I don\'t know that
we can have what they have

00:26:38.633 --> 00:26:40.067
because we don\'t have a stove.

00:26:40.100 --> 00:26:41.900
- We need our stove.

00:26:41.933 --> 00:26:43.700
- So it\'s kind of frustrating

00:26:43.733 --> 00:26:46.867
because we all want to do
something good around food.

00:26:46.900 --> 00:26:48.067
For instance, we have a family

00:26:48.100 --> 00:26:49.533
who has a catering business,

00:26:49.567 --> 00:26:52.600
and they would love
to cater the food at the school.

00:26:52.633 --> 00:26:54.600
They would do healthy,
organic lunches

00:26:54.633 --> 00:26:56.267
that are really appealing
to children,

00:26:56.300 --> 00:26:59.167
but when we asked about it...
Oh, no, we can\'t.

00:26:59.200 --> 00:27:02.567
Nobody could think
what it might be like.

00:27:02.600 --> 00:27:06.167
- We know the family
she\'s talking about.

00:27:06.200 --> 00:27:09.700
- It would be great
if they made our school lunch.

00:27:09.733 --> 00:27:11.400
- So what do you think

00:27:11.433 --> 00:27:14.000
of the Neighborhood School\'s
school lunch?

00:27:14.033 --> 00:27:15.267
- I don\'t like it.

00:27:15.300 --> 00:27:17.667
I think it looks to me
like a lot of frozen food.

00:27:17.700 --> 00:27:19.833
- What kind of food
would you serve

00:27:19.867 --> 00:27:23.267
if you did get the chance
to serve for schools?

00:27:23.300 --> 00:27:25.167
- Well, I\'d probably do
a lot of what I do here,

00:27:25.200 --> 00:27:27.800
which is just
really fresh, simple stuff.

00:27:27.833 --> 00:27:29.467
It doesn\'t have to be
complicated.

00:27:29.500 --> 00:27:31.433
Just if you\'re
going to serve potatoes,

00:27:31.467 --> 00:27:32.600
serve real potatoes,

00:27:32.633 --> 00:27:34.400
don\'t serve freeze-dried,
frozen potatoes

00:27:34.433 --> 00:27:37.133
that are rolled
in some strange bread crumbs.

00:27:37.167 --> 00:27:39.300
If you\'re going to serve apples,
serve the apple,

00:27:39.333 --> 00:27:41.100
don\'t cut it
and put it in a bag.

00:27:41.133 --> 00:27:44.000
I don\'t understand
why it has to be so packaged.

00:27:44.033 --> 00:27:46.500
I would involve children
in learning a little bit

00:27:46.533 --> 00:27:47.933
about where food comes from,

00:27:47.967 --> 00:27:49.567
how it turns out
to be what it is,

00:27:49.600 --> 00:27:55.300
and what brings it
from the farm to the table.

00:27:55.333 --> 00:27:57.300
- That was really good.
- Yeah.

00:27:57.333 --> 00:27:59.367
- Remember when we talked
to Chef Jorge...

00:27:59.400 --> 00:28:01.500
both: And Eric Goldstein?

00:28:01.533 --> 00:28:03.533
- That really changed my mind
about school lunch

00:28:03.567 --> 00:28:05.500
and how hard it was to prepare.

00:28:05.533 --> 00:28:07.400
You know, like, before,

00:28:07.433 --> 00:28:11.267
I thought it was just, like,
disgusting, nasty, frozen food

00:28:11.300 --> 00:28:12.967
that they didn\'t need
to make disgusting

00:28:13.000 --> 00:28:14.267
yet they still did,

00:28:14.300 --> 00:28:16.100
but that meeting
changed my mind.

00:28:16.133 --> 00:28:17.367
And I\'m not saying that...

00:28:17.400 --> 00:28:19.300
- Like the efforts
that they put into everything.

00:28:19.333 --> 00:28:20.500
- Yeah, yeah, all the efforts.

00:28:20.533 --> 00:28:21.867
And then the government

00:28:21.900 --> 00:28:24.133
doesn\'t give them enough money
for organic things,

00:28:24.167 --> 00:28:26.667
so it\'s not exactly their fault.

00:28:26.700 --> 00:28:28.167
But I think overall,

00:28:28.200 --> 00:28:33.833
the idea that Amy and Kevin
had was great.

00:28:33.867 --> 00:28:35.167
Don\'t you agree?

00:28:35.200 --> 00:28:37.900
- Yeah.

00:28:37.933 --> 00:28:39.033
Yeah, I agree.

00:28:39.067 --> 00:28:42.033
But why should it be
so complicated?

00:28:42.067 --> 00:28:44.433
- Even apples were complicated.

00:28:44.467 --> 00:28:46.300
It took years
to get local apples

00:28:46.333 --> 00:28:48.500
into the New York City schools.

00:28:48.533 --> 00:28:49.700
- But even then,

00:28:49.733 --> 00:28:51.533
kids weren\'t eating
a lot of them.

00:28:51.567 --> 00:28:53.533
- I think the lunch period
is too short

00:28:53.567 --> 00:28:56.333
to eat a whole apple
and the rest of my lunch.

00:28:56.367 --> 00:28:58.467
- So a New York farmer
had an idea:

00:28:58.500 --> 00:29:01.133
sliced apples.

00:29:01.167 --> 00:29:03.200
- Now kids
are eating more apples.

00:29:03.233 --> 00:29:04.833
- And they\'re local.

00:29:04.867 --> 00:29:09.600
- What other local foods
could they get for the schools?

00:29:09.633 --> 00:29:15.067
- We looked it up,
and carrots are complicated too.

00:29:15.100 --> 00:29:17.967
- We\'re going to a carrot farm.

00:29:18.000 --> 00:29:19.733
- We always thought
it was a good idea

00:29:19.767 --> 00:29:23.400
to have New York kids
eat New York vegetables.

00:29:23.433 --> 00:29:25.100
A group came to us
and said, you know,

00:29:25.133 --> 00:29:26.333
\"We need some help,

00:29:26.367 --> 00:29:28.167
because we\'re worried
about obesity in kids.\"

00:29:28.200 --> 00:29:30.700
Some people did
an experiment with apples,

00:29:30.733 --> 00:29:32.600
to package them
in a kid-friendly package.

00:29:32.633 --> 00:29:33.867
And then they said,

00:29:33.900 --> 00:29:35.767
\"Maybe we could do
the same thing with carrots.\"

00:29:35.800 --> 00:29:38.800
- Where were the carrots
grown for school lunch before?

00:29:38.833 --> 00:29:42.967
- They\'ve been coming from
California or Canada or Mexico.

00:29:43.000 --> 00:29:45.733
- So they\'re not as fresh
or good?

00:29:45.767 --> 00:29:49.133
- Well, we don\'t think so.

00:29:49.167 --> 00:29:50.867
This is our packing house.

00:29:50.900 --> 00:29:53.933
These are carrots
dug out in the field.

00:29:53.967 --> 00:29:55.567
We have a machine
that takes the carrots

00:29:55.600 --> 00:29:56.867
up out of the ground,

00:29:56.900 --> 00:29:58.367
pinches the tops off.

00:29:58.400 --> 00:30:00.033
But they\'re all dirty,

00:30:00.067 --> 00:30:04.167
and then they\'ll
go into that washer up there.

00:30:04.200 --> 00:30:06.200
The carrots
rub against each other,

00:30:06.233 --> 00:30:09.000
tumble around, and get clean,

00:30:09.033 --> 00:30:11.900
travel up the conveyer.

00:30:11.933 --> 00:30:14.333
We\'ll have people working
on both sides of the belt.

00:30:14.367 --> 00:30:16.133
They\'re going
to pick out nice carrots,

00:30:16.167 --> 00:30:18.567
and when the scale is full,

00:30:18.600 --> 00:30:19.967
we\'ll take the wicket bag,

00:30:20.000 --> 00:30:23.667
and we\'ll wind up with
a bag of carrots like this.

00:30:23.700 --> 00:30:25.733
For your New York City schools,

00:30:25.767 --> 00:30:26.967
the first thought was,

00:30:27.000 --> 00:30:29.233
\"Let\'s take and grow
a baby carrot.\"

00:30:29.267 --> 00:30:30.700
Now we\'ve changed directions.

00:30:30.733 --> 00:30:33.600
Now we\'re going to make a coin.

00:30:33.633 --> 00:30:36.133
It took a little time,
because, well,

00:30:36.167 --> 00:30:37.633
an awful lot
of the food business

00:30:37.667 --> 00:30:40.633
is not about food.

00:30:40.667 --> 00:30:43.400
- Farmer Ball
ran into a lot of problems.

00:30:43.433 --> 00:30:44.900
- Schools had to buy their food

00:30:44.933 --> 00:30:47.167
from the least expensive
distributors.

00:30:47.200 --> 00:30:48.533
That made it hard.

00:30:48.567 --> 00:30:51.500
- Could he get the price
he needed to make this work?

00:30:51.533 --> 00:30:53.433
- This storage
that we have for carrots

00:30:53.467 --> 00:30:55.400
will hold 1,000 tons,

00:30:55.433 --> 00:31:00.700
and your New York City
school system bought 2,500 tons.

00:31:00.733 --> 00:31:04.067
We have a meeting next week
with a group of carrot growers

00:31:04.100 --> 00:31:06.033
and talk about how many acres
we\'re going to need

00:31:06.067 --> 00:31:10.033
to take care of the entire needs
of the schools next year.

00:31:10.067 --> 00:31:12.767
This valley raised
wheat and corn

00:31:12.800 --> 00:31:16.067
for Washington\'s troops
during the Revolutionary War,

00:31:16.100 --> 00:31:17.067
so they called it

00:31:17.100 --> 00:31:18.600
the breadbasket
of the Revolution.

00:31:18.633 --> 00:31:20.400
- Sun!

00:31:20.433 --> 00:31:21.600
- And we\'re a couple hours away

00:31:21.633 --> 00:31:23.700
from the largest appetite
in the world,

00:31:23.733 --> 00:31:25.633
some of whom are kids.

00:31:25.667 --> 00:31:28.567
Unfortunately, most of them
don\'t know much about us.

00:31:28.600 --> 00:31:31.133
Corn over there.
Corn over there.

00:31:31.167 --> 00:31:33.133
This is asparagus right here.

00:31:33.167 --> 00:31:34.933
This is a strawberry plant.

00:31:34.967 --> 00:31:36.867
Now we\'re saying,
\"Well, let\'s look at a new model

00:31:36.900 --> 00:31:39.400
where we think about local.\"

00:31:39.433 --> 00:31:40.867
Garlic.

00:31:40.900 --> 00:31:42.867
Well, the exciting thing is,
this is just two items:

00:31:42.900 --> 00:31:44.767
apples and carrots.

00:31:44.800 --> 00:31:47.300
And it opens the door
for everything else.

00:31:47.333 --> 00:31:48.500
You like garlic?

00:31:48.533 --> 00:31:53.233
- Yeah.

00:31:53.267 --> 00:31:54.433
- How about a carrot muffin?

00:31:54.467 --> 00:31:57.333
- Yeah.

00:31:59.967 --> 00:32:05.100
- A large.

00:32:05.133 --> 00:32:10.000
- Sadie, guess what.

00:32:10.033 --> 00:32:11.633
- I need some paint.

00:32:11.667 --> 00:32:12.667
Down.

00:32:12.700 --> 00:32:14.267
It\'s a house.

00:32:14.300 --> 00:32:16.533
- It\'s a house.

00:32:16.567 --> 00:32:18.767
- I\'m getting the black.

00:32:18.800 --> 00:32:21.067
- Whoa, it\'s sparkly.

00:32:21.100 --> 00:32:23.400
- Look.

00:32:23.433 --> 00:32:27.300
- Two Ts and two Rs.

00:32:27.333 --> 00:32:29.300
- Sadie, I\'m finished with red.

00:32:29.333 --> 00:32:34.200
I need orange.

00:32:34.233 --> 00:32:37.167
I dig carrots.

00:32:40.700 --> 00:32:42.100
- My brothers and I grow food

00:32:42.133 --> 00:32:44.367
in window boxes
in our apartment:

00:32:44.400 --> 00:32:48.667
some fruit, vegetables, herbs.

00:32:48.700 --> 00:32:49.667
- What\'s that?

00:32:49.700 --> 00:32:50.667
- Basil.

00:32:50.700 --> 00:32:52.400
- And this is basil, right?

00:32:52.433 --> 00:32:55.133
- Basil smells delicious.

00:32:55.167 --> 00:32:57.167
- What does basil taste like?

00:32:57.200 --> 00:33:00.167
- It tastes like...
It\'s on some kind of pizzas.

00:33:00.200 --> 00:33:01.533
- And what\'s this?

00:33:01.567 --> 00:33:03.033
- That\'s a flower, but...

00:33:03.067 --> 00:33:04.033
- You could eat it.

00:33:04.067 --> 00:33:05.700
- Yeah.

00:33:05.733 --> 00:33:06.733
- I use my teeth.

00:33:06.767 --> 00:33:08.133
- Anybody want
to water the plants?

00:33:08.167 --> 00:33:11.100
- Yellow plum and green grape.

00:33:11.133 --> 00:33:12.733
- Babies like this one.

00:33:12.767 --> 00:33:17.067
- But we don\'t grow enough food
to feed our whole family.

00:33:17.100 --> 00:33:19.333
So we have to buy food
from other people.

00:33:19.367 --> 00:33:24.233
Who\'s growing food around here?

00:33:24.267 --> 00:33:25.767
- We found out there are

00:33:25.800 --> 00:33:30.567
a lot more urban farmers
than we thought.

00:33:30.600 --> 00:33:32.200
- Like the Angel family.

00:33:32.233 --> 00:33:33.800
They live in Brooklyn.

00:33:33.833 --> 00:33:35.567
- Mucho gusto.

00:33:35.600 --> 00:33:37.633
- Three years ago,
they found a farm to rent

00:33:37.667 --> 00:33:39.033
in upstate New York.

00:33:39.067 --> 00:33:40.200
- Figs, you like figs?

00:33:40.233 --> 00:33:41.200
- Oh, really?

00:33:41.233 --> 00:33:42.333
- Yeah, they all...

00:33:42.367 --> 00:33:43.933
- They start the seeds
in their backyard.

00:33:43.967 --> 00:33:45.000
- That\'s grapes.

00:33:45.033 --> 00:33:46.233
We\'re going to get grapes soon.

00:33:46.267 --> 00:33:47.367
- Really?
Cool.

00:33:47.400 --> 00:33:49.000
- And then they take
the small plants

00:33:49.033 --> 00:33:50.733
to the farm to grow.

00:33:50.767 --> 00:33:53.767
- [speaking Spanish]

00:34:08.800 --> 00:34:10.833
- Do you guys like farming?

00:34:10.867 --> 00:34:12.467
- It\'s a good experience.

00:34:12.500 --> 00:34:13.933
It\'s a good story,

00:34:13.967 --> 00:34:16.167
good story for my children
probably one day.

00:34:16.200 --> 00:34:18.633
- He likes to be the operator
of the tractor machine.

00:34:18.667 --> 00:34:21.200
- I like planting.
I think it\'s fun.

00:34:39.300 --> 00:34:42.400
- In the green market,
people think food is expensive,

00:34:42.433 --> 00:34:44.167
the vegetables,
but actually it\'s worth it,

00:34:44.200 --> 00:34:45.967
because it\'s very, very healthy,

00:34:46.000 --> 00:34:47.967
not like the other food
in the supermarkets.

00:34:48.000 --> 00:34:49.733
- You can literally
taste the difference.

00:34:49.767 --> 00:34:51.200
If you were to,
like, just walk around

00:34:51.233 --> 00:34:53.233
with something from your house
from the supermarket

00:34:53.267 --> 00:34:54.667
and go and bite into,
like, a tomato,

00:34:54.700 --> 00:34:55.933
you taste the difference.

00:34:55.967 --> 00:34:58.533
- Yeah.

00:35:10.800 --> 00:35:14.167
- We\'re helping
the plants to grow

00:35:14.200 --> 00:35:18.233
so we could sell them
to the green market

00:35:18.267 --> 00:35:26.233
and make people
be good and be healthy.

00:35:26.267 --> 00:35:27.367
[light applause]

00:35:27.400 --> 00:35:31.167
- Eres una buena speaker.

00:35:31.200 --> 00:35:33.267
- It does taste better,
and it is healthier.

00:35:33.300 --> 00:35:34.767
An Asian pear.

00:35:34.800 --> 00:35:39.233
- And it does cost more
than fast food.

00:35:39.267 --> 00:35:40.333
[kid singing]

00:35:40.367 --> 00:35:41.967
- You\'re the ketchup
on my hotdog,

00:35:42.000 --> 00:35:43.333
the mustard on my bun.

00:35:43.367 --> 00:35:45.833
I\'m gonna eat ya, eat ya,
eat ya, eat ya, yeah.

00:35:45.867 --> 00:35:47.733
\'Cause you\'re the ketchup
on my hotdog,

00:35:47.767 --> 00:35:49.100
the mustard on my bun,

00:35:49.133 --> 00:35:51.400
I\'m gonna eat ya, eat ya,
eat ya, eat ya, yeah.

00:35:51.433 --> 00:35:54.500
- How often
do you eat fast food?

00:35:54.533 --> 00:35:55.500
- About twice a week.

00:35:55.533 --> 00:35:57.333
- Like, every day.
- Mm-hmm.

00:35:57.367 --> 00:35:59.100
- Nah, except
Saturdays and Sundays.

00:35:59.133 --> 00:36:01.733
- How many times a week
do you eat there?

00:36:01.767 --> 00:36:03.500
- As many times as I can.

00:36:03.533 --> 00:36:06.067
- When I just have a few bucks.

00:36:06.100 --> 00:36:08.333
- Why do you like fast food?

00:36:08.367 --> 00:36:09.467
- \'Cause it\'s quick.

00:36:09.500 --> 00:36:10.600
- \'Cause it tastes good.

00:36:10.633 --> 00:36:13.000
- I grew up eating there
as a kid,

00:36:13.033 --> 00:36:14.400
so I\'m used to the taste.

00:36:14.433 --> 00:36:16.133
- Why do you eat at fast food?

00:36:16.167 --> 00:36:17.267
- Save a little money.

00:36:17.300 --> 00:36:18.600
- They got the two for three

00:36:18.633 --> 00:36:21.033
on the triple burgers right now.

00:36:21.067 --> 00:36:22.833
- It\'s fast and cheap,

00:36:22.867 --> 00:36:25.667
and it\'s sometimes
the only thing around,

00:36:25.700 --> 00:36:29.333
but if I ate that food,
that would be really bad for me.

00:36:29.367 --> 00:36:33.867
- Hello.
How are you?

00:36:33.900 --> 00:36:35.833
Make a fist.

00:36:35.867 --> 00:36:36.833
- With this hand?

00:36:36.867 --> 00:36:37.833
- With this hand.

00:36:37.867 --> 00:36:39.267
Put this hand right here.

00:36:39.300 --> 00:36:41.467
And don\'t slug me.

00:36:41.500 --> 00:36:42.467
Promise?

00:36:42.500 --> 00:36:43.667
- Okay.

00:36:43.700 --> 00:36:45.367
- In about two days,
we\'ll have the results,

00:36:45.400 --> 00:36:47.233
and then we\'ll send it
to your lipid doctor.

00:36:47.267 --> 00:36:49.467
What we\'re concerned about is,
over time,

00:36:49.500 --> 00:36:53.633
the cholesterol, the fat,
would clog up your arteries.

00:36:53.667 --> 00:36:55.267
It can cause heart attacks.

00:36:55.300 --> 00:36:56.867
It can cause strokes.

00:36:56.900 --> 00:36:58.500
I don\'t know
what the percentage is

00:36:58.533 --> 00:37:00.367
of kids who have
high cholesterol,

00:37:00.400 --> 00:37:02.333
but we\'re definitely
seeing an increase

00:37:02.367 --> 00:37:04.200
in kids who are overweight

00:37:04.233 --> 00:37:06.700
and some who
are very overweight,

00:37:06.733 --> 00:37:08.433
what we\'d say is obese,

00:37:08.467 --> 00:37:11.667
and that\'s because kids
are eating the wrong foods,

00:37:11.700 --> 00:37:15.200
too much fast food,
not getting enough exercise.

00:37:15.233 --> 00:37:18.100
And those things
are potentially dangerous

00:37:18.133 --> 00:37:20.200
because it can lead
to high cholesterol

00:37:20.233 --> 00:37:21.867
and then heart disease
and strokes

00:37:21.900 --> 00:37:23.333
and the other things.

00:37:23.367 --> 00:37:27.033
- Obesity has skyrocketed,
especially among kids.

00:37:27.067 --> 00:37:29.400
- The other problem
with being overweight

00:37:29.433 --> 00:37:31.467
is that it makes you
more susceptible

00:37:31.500 --> 00:37:35.233
to having type 2 diabetes.

00:37:35.267 --> 00:37:37.800
- It says here
that one out of three kids

00:37:37.833 --> 00:37:39.733
will get diabetes,

00:37:39.767 --> 00:37:42.000
and it\'s two out of three
if you\'re black or Latino.

00:37:42.033 --> 00:37:44.933
- That seems really unfair.

00:37:44.967 --> 00:37:47.967
- There are over
20 million people in the country

00:37:48.000 --> 00:37:49.567
who have diabetes.

00:37:49.600 --> 00:37:53.000
- Two of them
are friends of my family.

00:37:53.033 --> 00:37:55.633
- This was the thing
I was the most afraid about.

00:37:55.667 --> 00:37:57.467
- I once stapled myself.

00:37:57.500 --> 00:37:59.467
- Okay.

00:37:59.500 --> 00:38:00.533
- Yeah, that\'s it.

00:38:00.567 --> 00:38:02.067
It\'s just a little poke.

00:38:02.100 --> 00:38:04.767
- Then it makes a noise.

00:38:04.800 --> 00:38:05.767
75?

00:38:05.800 --> 00:38:06.767
See?
It\'s low.

00:38:06.800 --> 00:38:07.800
- It was low.
See?

00:38:07.833 --> 00:38:09.267
I\'ve had diabetes
for eight years.

00:38:09.300 --> 00:38:13.133
I found out when I was pregnant
with my daughter Jamie.

00:38:13.167 --> 00:38:15.967
I knew I had diabetes
in my family.

00:38:16.000 --> 00:38:18.767
My father died
of complications of diabetes.

00:38:18.800 --> 00:38:20.900
- I didn\'t know anybody
with diabetes.

00:38:20.933 --> 00:38:22.900
I walk in the doctor\'s office,

00:38:22.933 --> 00:38:24.300
and he\'s like,
\"You\'re diabetic.\"

00:38:24.333 --> 00:38:25.667
And I\'m like, \"What?\"

00:38:25.700 --> 00:38:27.467
You know, I was like,
\"Well, what do you mean?\"

00:38:27.500 --> 00:38:28.967
He\'s like,
\"There\'s no question.\"

00:38:29.000 --> 00:38:30.033
It\'s like being...

00:38:30.067 --> 00:38:31.867
You can\'t be, like,
partly pregnant.

00:38:31.900 --> 00:38:33.367
You have it, or you don\'t.

00:38:33.400 --> 00:38:36.233
It took, like, I think
it was ten years of bad habits.

00:38:36.267 --> 00:38:37.467
I was eating doughnuts.

00:38:37.500 --> 00:38:38.733
I was eating milkshakes

00:38:38.767 --> 00:38:41.400
and processed food too
like white bread

00:38:41.433 --> 00:38:43.800
and not eating
vegetables and fruit.

00:38:43.833 --> 00:38:45.133
- What is diabetes?

00:38:45.167 --> 00:38:48.133
- Diabetes is when
your pancreas is not doing

00:38:48.167 --> 00:38:49.200
what it\'s supposed to do.

00:38:49.233 --> 00:38:50.233
- The pancreas is actually

00:38:50.267 --> 00:38:51.700
releasing this thing
called insulin

00:38:51.733 --> 00:38:55.033
that breaks down
the sugar in your blood

00:38:55.067 --> 00:38:57.700
and makes it absorb
into your cells for energy.

00:38:57.733 --> 00:38:58.933
- Basically, your pancreas,

00:38:58.967 --> 00:39:01.000
it\'s not processing
the sugar in your body

00:39:01.033 --> 00:39:02.133
the way it\'s supposed to.

00:39:02.167 --> 00:39:03.433
You don\'t beat it.

00:39:03.467 --> 00:39:05.333
Once you\'re diabetic,
you\'re always diabetic,

00:39:05.367 --> 00:39:06.700
but you can control it.

00:39:06.733 --> 00:39:09.433
It\'s really about eating
good food and not bad food.

00:39:09.467 --> 00:39:10.767
- I became a label freak.

00:39:10.800 --> 00:39:12.433
- Obsessed.
Aren\'t you obsessed with it?

00:39:12.467 --> 00:39:13.833
- With labels, oh, my God.
- I am too.

00:39:13.867 --> 00:39:15.567
And exercising,
that\'s important.

00:39:15.600 --> 00:39:17.200
I just want
to be around for my kids,

00:39:17.233 --> 00:39:18.967
because my dad
went out really bad.

00:39:19.000 --> 00:39:21.433
It\'s an ugly, ugly reality

00:39:21.467 --> 00:39:22.907
when you don\'t
take care of yourself.

00:39:22.933 --> 00:39:25.133
- What happens if
you don\'t take care of yourself?

00:39:25.167 --> 00:39:27.433
- Diabetics lose their vision.

00:39:27.467 --> 00:39:28.600
Your kidneys fail.

00:39:28.633 --> 00:39:32.000
Once your circulation
stops working,

00:39:32.033 --> 00:39:34.233
your limbs get cut off.

00:39:34.267 --> 00:39:36.633
Diabetes is rampant
in the black community,

00:39:36.667 --> 00:39:40.333
and you see a lot of old men
with no limbs.

00:39:40.367 --> 00:39:43.367
My dad died five days
before my wedding.

00:39:43.400 --> 00:39:45.433
It\'s very sad.

00:39:45.467 --> 00:39:46.900
I just had a tenth anniversary.

00:39:46.933 --> 00:39:48.600
He just died ten years ago.

00:39:48.633 --> 00:39:49.900
So this is serious.

00:39:49.933 --> 00:39:52.500
I try my hardest day by day.

00:39:52.533 --> 00:39:54.633
And my daughter
has such a sweet tooth,

00:39:54.667 --> 00:39:57.600
and I tell her,
\"Jamie, okay, that\'s enough.\"

00:39:57.633 --> 00:39:59.567
But I don\'t want
to make her feel so uptight

00:39:59.600 --> 00:40:02.133
and so crazy about food

00:40:02.167 --> 00:40:05.933
because I don\'t want food
to have that much control.

00:40:05.967 --> 00:40:08.000
We have to make those choices,
you know,

00:40:08.033 --> 00:40:10.100
and that\'s what I have to do
for the rest of my life.

00:40:10.133 --> 00:40:11.667
- Yeah.

00:40:13.300 --> 00:40:16.467
- Food that\'s bad for you
is never cheap.

00:40:16.500 --> 00:40:18.933
It costs when
you have to pay a doctor.

00:40:18.967 --> 00:40:21.467
- It costs when
you have to take medicine.

00:40:21.500 --> 00:40:24.233
- And if you have
to take medicine every day,

00:40:24.267 --> 00:40:25.600
you\'re paying again...

00:40:25.633 --> 00:40:26.600
- And again...

00:40:26.633 --> 00:40:27.767
- And again.

00:40:27.800 --> 00:40:29.800
- And think of
all those millions...

00:40:29.833 --> 00:40:31.067
- And billions...

00:40:31.100 --> 00:40:32.100
- And trillions...

00:40:32.133 --> 00:40:33.100
- Of wrappers...

00:40:33.133 --> 00:40:34.800
- And boxes and packages...

00:40:34.833 --> 00:40:35.867
- And drinking cups...

00:40:35.900 --> 00:40:37.233
- And straws.

00:40:37.267 --> 00:40:39.367
- When the planet
has to be cleaned up,

00:40:39.400 --> 00:40:41.533
we all pay.

00:40:44.333 --> 00:40:45.467
- So making this film,

00:40:45.500 --> 00:40:47.167
has it totally changed
how you, like,

00:40:47.200 --> 00:40:48.800
what you eat on a daily basis?

00:40:48.833 --> 00:40:49.933
- Oh, yeah.

00:40:49.967 --> 00:40:52.867
- It just changed
how I think about it.

00:40:52.900 --> 00:40:54.233
But we\'re still wondering

00:40:54.267 --> 00:40:56.833
why people would make food
that\'s bad for us.

00:40:56.867 --> 00:40:57.833
- Mm-hmm.

00:40:57.867 --> 00:40:59.567
I don\'t personally think

00:40:59.600 --> 00:41:01.000
that there are these evil people

00:41:01.033 --> 00:41:02.567
sitting in a room
somewhere saying,

00:41:02.600 --> 00:41:03.733
\"Hmm, how can we make food

00:41:03.767 --> 00:41:05.067
that\'s going
to make us all sick?\"

00:41:05.100 --> 00:41:06.667
But some of
the biggest food companies

00:41:06.700 --> 00:41:08.367
are making a lot of money.

00:41:08.400 --> 00:41:10.200
Like, what are some
of the brand names you see?

00:41:10.233 --> 00:41:11.500
- Kellogg\'s.
- Kellogg\'s and...

00:41:11.533 --> 00:41:12.667
- Campbell\'s.
- Campbell\'s.

00:41:12.700 --> 00:41:13.667
- Nestle.
- Nestle.

00:41:13.700 --> 00:41:15.100
Actually most of the food

00:41:15.133 --> 00:41:16.300
that we see in the supermarket

00:41:16.333 --> 00:41:18.200
is coming from just ten brands.

00:41:18.233 --> 00:41:20.933
Sprite, Mountain Dew, Odwalla

00:41:20.967 --> 00:41:23.033
and a number of other beverages
are all owned by Coke.

00:41:23.067 --> 00:41:24.267
But you see them in the store.

00:41:24.300 --> 00:41:25.933
They seem like
it\'s all different brands.

00:41:25.967 --> 00:41:27.067
They don\'t look like one...

00:41:27.100 --> 00:41:28.500
- Odwalla\'s owned by Coke?
- Mm-hmm.

00:41:28.533 --> 00:41:30.200
And there\'s middlemen
or middle companies

00:41:30.233 --> 00:41:32.467
buying the commodities,
buying those products

00:41:32.500 --> 00:41:33.833
and then selling them to

00:41:33.867 --> 00:41:36.100
the Kellogg\'s and
the Campbell\'s and the Nestles.

00:41:36.133 --> 00:41:37.867
Companies like ADM and Cargill,

00:41:37.900 --> 00:41:39.467
probably names
you\'ve never heard of,

00:41:39.500 --> 00:41:42.967
these are some of
the biggest commodity buyers

00:41:43.000 --> 00:41:45.300
that are actually
making huge profits.

00:41:45.333 --> 00:41:48.000
There certainly are people
making a lot of money.

00:41:48.033 --> 00:41:51.367
Unfortunately, it\'s not
the average American farmer.

00:41:51.400 --> 00:41:55.033
In this country,
more than 90% of our farmers

00:41:55.067 --> 00:41:57.533
have to have some other job
to make money

00:41:57.567 --> 00:41:59.400
just so that
their family can survive.

00:41:59.433 --> 00:42:02.700
They\'re not benefiting
from the way Americans eat

00:42:02.733 --> 00:42:04.933
and where we\'re spending
our money on food.

00:42:08.867 --> 00:42:11.633
- That makes me wonder
how the Angels do it,

00:42:11.667 --> 00:42:14.567
live in the city and work
on the farm upstate.

00:42:14.600 --> 00:42:17.000
We know the kids
go on weekends to help.

00:42:17.033 --> 00:42:18.567
- Hi!

00:42:18.600 --> 00:42:20.800
- This time
I got to go with them.

00:42:20.833 --> 00:42:22.300
- That\'s Oreo.

00:42:22.333 --> 00:42:23.433
Hey, Oreo.

00:42:23.467 --> 00:42:24.433
- Hi, Oreo.

00:42:24.467 --> 00:42:26.533
- This is my favorite tractor.

00:42:26.567 --> 00:42:29.067
It\'s our first one.

00:42:33.067 --> 00:42:34.667
These, that\'s cilantro.

00:42:34.700 --> 00:42:36.367
All this is cilantro.

00:42:36.400 --> 00:42:38.433
Everything around it is weeds.

00:42:38.467 --> 00:42:40.533
- Let\'s go dig some weeds up.

00:42:53.600 --> 00:42:55.433
- So you rent this land?

00:43:20.700 --> 00:43:24.567
- Nhumi, there\'s nothing there.

00:43:24.600 --> 00:43:26.333
Nhumi\'s really good.

00:43:26.367 --> 00:43:28.400
Look at my row.

00:43:41.033 --> 00:43:42.633
- Girls Gone Green and I

00:43:42.667 --> 00:43:45.200
work for the Lower East Side
Girls Club.

00:43:45.233 --> 00:43:46.800
Honey!

00:43:46.833 --> 00:43:47.800
You\'re here.

00:43:47.833 --> 00:43:49.900
I thought you guys got lost.

00:43:51.900 --> 00:43:54.500
- So what you guys
see right here

00:43:54.533 --> 00:43:56.533
is everything we\'re going
to be working with today.

00:43:56.567 --> 00:43:57.700
These are the transplants.

00:43:57.733 --> 00:43:58.967
We have eggplant,

00:43:59.000 --> 00:44:01.567
and we\'re going to plant those
over there,

00:44:01.600 --> 00:44:04.567
where you see
all the plastic on the ground.

00:44:04.600 --> 00:44:06.500
- I\'ll take one.

00:44:06.533 --> 00:44:07.800
- So one is dropping the plants

00:44:07.833 --> 00:44:08.967
and the other one is digging.

00:44:09.000 --> 00:44:10.267
- Like this.
Let\'s demonstrate.

00:44:10.300 --> 00:44:16.800
So he drops the plant,
and I dig.

00:44:16.833 --> 00:44:18.333
On both sides.

00:44:18.367 --> 00:44:20.667
- Oh, my God.
This is really hard.

00:44:20.700 --> 00:44:23.500
- Next time, try to dig it
a little bit deeper in, okay?

00:44:23.533 --> 00:44:24.633
- Okay.

00:44:24.667 --> 00:44:26.000
- They had this new program,

00:44:26.033 --> 00:44:27.633
Girls Gone Green
for Global Warming,

00:44:27.667 --> 00:44:30.400
and I just really
wanted to be a part of it.

00:44:30.433 --> 00:44:33.967
Instead of the sun rays
melting the glaciers,

00:44:34.000 --> 00:44:38.633
it\'s going towards
growing organic food.

00:44:38.667 --> 00:44:40.567
- Wow, we\'ve done, like,
halfway.

00:44:40.600 --> 00:44:42.700
- And, like,
people tend to forget

00:44:42.733 --> 00:44:44.233
where food really comes from.

00:44:44.267 --> 00:44:46.800
- Look at my hands.

00:45:12.933 --> 00:45:14.633
- I\'ve been farming
with my family

00:45:14.667 --> 00:45:15.833
for the past three years.

00:45:15.867 --> 00:45:19.667
Eggplant, baked eggplant,
it tastes so good.

00:45:34.000 --> 00:45:37.000
- [speaking Spanish]

00:45:53.200 --> 00:45:57.067
- I realize the excessive amount
of work and time

00:45:57.100 --> 00:45:59.067
it actually takes to plant food.

00:45:59.100 --> 00:46:01.200
I\'ll probably appreciate more
and remember this

00:46:01.233 --> 00:46:03.733
every time I eat eggplant.

00:46:28.600 --> 00:46:30.700
- I read this
really interesting thing

00:46:30.733 --> 00:46:32.467
called Human Footprint,

00:46:32.500 --> 00:46:35.733
and it said that in the city,

00:46:35.767 --> 00:46:38.533
each individual city person,

00:46:38.567 --> 00:46:40.167
they create less global warming

00:46:40.200 --> 00:46:42.200
than, like,
all of the suburb people.

00:46:42.233 --> 00:46:43.867
- Here we walk a lot,

00:46:43.900 --> 00:46:46.000
and they
have to drive everywhere.

00:46:46.033 --> 00:46:48.500
Like, I walk to school,
and I walk home,

00:46:48.533 --> 00:46:50.400
and I walk to the subway.

00:46:50.433 --> 00:46:51.700
- You have stairs
at your school?

00:46:51.733 --> 00:46:52.700
- Yeah.
- Yeah.

00:46:52.733 --> 00:46:53.800
- You go to the same school?

00:46:53.833 --> 00:46:55.333
- We found some scientists
in Brooklyn

00:46:55.367 --> 00:46:56.767
who are studying
where people live,

00:46:56.800 --> 00:47:00.333
what they get to eat,
and how active they are.

00:47:00.367 --> 00:47:01.500
- Almost everything we do

00:47:01.533 --> 00:47:03.367
is about doing research
on physical activity.

00:47:03.400 --> 00:47:06.367
And so we\'ve got a variety
of ways of doing this,

00:47:06.400 --> 00:47:09.233
and one of them
is basically a little device

00:47:09.267 --> 00:47:10.700
that monitors
how active you are.

00:47:10.733 --> 00:47:12.033
- They\'re small.

00:47:12.067 --> 00:47:14.067
- Let\'s measure
your physical activity

00:47:14.100 --> 00:47:15.333
using these devices.

00:47:15.367 --> 00:47:16.367
- Okay.

00:47:16.400 --> 00:47:17.900
- And you wear them
on your waist.

00:47:17.933 --> 00:47:19.167
- I have soccer practice,

00:47:19.200 --> 00:47:20.567
so it\'ll measure, like,

00:47:20.600 --> 00:47:23.800
how much I\'m running
during soccer practice?

00:47:23.833 --> 00:47:25.200
- It measures running
really well.

00:47:25.233 --> 00:47:26.200
- Yeah.

00:47:26.233 --> 00:47:27.567
- Well, I do fencing,

00:47:27.600 --> 00:47:29.233
and we move our arms
more than our legs.

00:47:29.267 --> 00:47:31.200
- If you\'re just standing,
like, like that,

00:47:31.233 --> 00:47:33.267
it\'s not going
to really measure much,

00:47:33.300 --> 00:47:35.400
but I\'ve watched fencing on TV,

00:47:35.433 --> 00:47:37.067
is there, like,
some of this kind of thing?

00:47:37.100 --> 00:47:38.067
- Yeah.

00:47:38.100 --> 00:47:39.267
- Then it\'ll measure that.

00:47:39.300 --> 00:47:40.267
- The device sort of says

00:47:40.300 --> 00:47:41.600
how much
are you jiggling around,

00:47:41.633 --> 00:47:42.967
but then through a formula,

00:47:43.000 --> 00:47:45.567
it turns that moving,
that jiggling around,

00:47:45.600 --> 00:47:47.033
into an actual energy estimate,

00:47:47.067 --> 00:47:48.633
to see how many calories
you\'re burning.

00:47:48.667 --> 00:47:50.433
- So if you tell us
when you were playing soccer

00:47:50.467 --> 00:47:51.633
or when you were fencing,

00:47:51.667 --> 00:47:53.433
we can then look at this graph

00:47:53.467 --> 00:47:55.800
and say, \"It looks like
you spent 200 calories

00:47:55.833 --> 00:47:58.067
playing soccer or fencing.\"

00:47:58.100 --> 00:47:59.933
- I saw this thing
in the newspaper.

00:47:59.967 --> 00:48:02.500
It was about the rate
of obesity and diabetes

00:48:02.533 --> 00:48:04.667
in different zip codes.

00:48:04.700 --> 00:48:09.000
And it says that
in the Bronx and East New York,

00:48:09.033 --> 00:48:12.467
there\'s a lot more obesity
than in Staten Island.

00:48:12.500 --> 00:48:14.800
- Quite often, obesity tracks

00:48:14.833 --> 00:48:16.267
with neighborhoods
that are poorer.

00:48:16.300 --> 00:48:18.367
One of the questions
we\'re interested in is,

00:48:18.400 --> 00:48:20.400
are those neighborhoods
where obesity is higher

00:48:20.433 --> 00:48:21.633
and are also poorer,

00:48:21.667 --> 00:48:23.867
do they have, you know,
fewer farmers\' markets,

00:48:23.900 --> 00:48:25.767
fewer grocery stores,

00:48:25.800 --> 00:48:27.633
more bodegas, more fast food?

00:48:27.667 --> 00:48:28.733
In some neighborhoods,

00:48:28.767 --> 00:48:30.600
you can very easily
walk to the store.

00:48:30.633 --> 00:48:32.033
You can very easily
walk to the park.

00:48:32.067 --> 00:48:33.467
The neighborhood you live in

00:48:33.500 --> 00:48:35.633
can create
a climate or a context

00:48:35.667 --> 00:48:38.000
where it\'s easier or harder

00:48:38.033 --> 00:48:41.000
to make the decision to eat well
or to get exercise.

00:48:41.033 --> 00:48:42.733
The trick is,
it\'s all about balance.

00:48:42.767 --> 00:48:43.967
You have to maintain a balance

00:48:44.000 --> 00:48:46.933
of calories in and calories out
through exercise.

00:48:56.733 --> 00:49:01.267
- My friend Caleb and I
fence together after school.

00:49:01.300 --> 00:49:04.433
- Caleb\'s dad
just had a heart attack.

00:49:04.467 --> 00:49:06.500
- Before my heart attack,

00:49:06.533 --> 00:49:11.167
I pretty much ate anything
and everything that I liked.

00:49:11.200 --> 00:49:12.500
- Midnight snacks.

00:49:12.533 --> 00:49:14.500
- Midnight snacks,
thank you very much.

00:49:14.533 --> 00:49:18.167
Midnight snacks,
midnight cheeseburgers.

00:49:18.200 --> 00:49:19.667
- I would accompany him.

00:49:19.700 --> 00:49:21.033
- Now it\'s very different.

00:49:21.067 --> 00:49:22.733
We\'re eating
a lot of healthier things now,

00:49:22.767 --> 00:49:25.333
so salads, a lot of grains.

00:49:25.367 --> 00:49:26.333
- Spinach.

00:49:26.367 --> 00:49:27.367
- Spinach.

00:49:27.400 --> 00:49:29.700
We used to have meat loaf.

00:49:29.733 --> 00:49:30.800
Now we have turkey loaf.

00:49:30.833 --> 00:49:32.167
- We don\'t have bacon anymore.

00:49:32.200 --> 00:49:33.867
- We don\'t have bacon anymore.
That\'s right.

00:49:33.900 --> 00:49:37.733
I grew up eating, you know,
fried foods and fatty foods,

00:49:37.767 --> 00:49:39.233
so I didn\'t know
anything better.

00:49:39.267 --> 00:49:40.633
One of the things
I\'m trying to do is

00:49:40.667 --> 00:49:41.933
change the way they eat,

00:49:41.967 --> 00:49:43.700
because it\'s going
to affect the way they eat

00:49:43.733 --> 00:49:44.967
later on in their life.

00:49:45.000 --> 00:49:48.600
- Is it true that Caleb and Jojo
named your stomach?

00:49:48.633 --> 00:49:50.200
- Is it true...[laughs]

00:49:50.233 --> 00:49:51.700
Is it true
that they named my stomach?

00:49:51.733 --> 00:49:52.700
Yes.

00:49:52.733 --> 00:49:54.033
- Yeah, it was one fateful night

00:49:54.067 --> 00:49:56.033
when we were sitting in bed

00:49:56.067 --> 00:50:00.167
when he decided
that he was kind of fat.

00:50:00.200 --> 00:50:03.333
So me and Jojo
thought for a few minutes

00:50:03.367 --> 00:50:06.233
and said,
\"Hey, let\'s call it Edward.\"

00:50:06.267 --> 00:50:09.067
- But as you can see,
Edward is on death row.

00:50:09.100 --> 00:50:13.233
He\'s dead stomach walking,
is what we call Edward.

00:50:13.267 --> 00:50:16.067
One of the things I\'m trying
to do is continue to exercise,

00:50:16.100 --> 00:50:17.400
continue to eat right,

00:50:17.433 --> 00:50:20.233
and that\'s why these guys
take fencing lessons.

00:50:20.267 --> 00:50:22.567
You know, with exercise
and correct diet,

00:50:22.600 --> 00:50:24.400
it will help them out.

00:50:24.433 --> 00:50:25.533
We live in a neighborhood

00:50:25.567 --> 00:50:27.200
that\'s mostly
a community of color.

00:50:27.233 --> 00:50:30.033
So we have to drive
to other neighborhoods

00:50:30.067 --> 00:50:31.300
to go buy organic food.

00:50:31.333 --> 00:50:33.200
There\'s nowhere
in my community we can get it.

00:50:33.233 --> 00:50:34.767
Yeah, we live up in Harlem,

00:50:34.800 --> 00:50:36.900
so we have to go to other places

00:50:36.933 --> 00:50:39.167
to buy things
that are healthier.

00:50:39.200 --> 00:50:41.867
- I knew that we weren\'t
eating that, like, good,

00:50:41.900 --> 00:50:45.633
but I didn\'t think
it\'d lead to a heart attack.

00:50:45.667 --> 00:50:47.300
- So you think
that the way we\'re eating

00:50:47.333 --> 00:50:48.700
is good for you now?

00:50:48.733 --> 00:50:50.167
- Yes.

00:50:50.200 --> 00:50:54.733
- So no more sesame chicken?

00:50:54.767 --> 00:50:56.400
No more lo mein?

00:50:56.433 --> 00:50:57.500
- No sesame chicken?

00:50:57.533 --> 00:50:58.733
- Sushi, we have sushi.

00:50:58.767 --> 00:50:59.733
- \"Sushi,\" okay.

00:50:59.767 --> 00:51:01.567
- \"Sushi.\"

00:51:01.600 --> 00:51:02.767
- In New York,

00:51:02.800 --> 00:51:04.767
shopping is different
in every neighborhood.

00:51:04.800 --> 00:51:06.867
- Some have huge supermarkets.

00:51:06.900 --> 00:51:09.633
- Most have bodegas
or little stores.

00:51:09.667 --> 00:51:11.833
- And some have gourmet stores.

00:51:11.867 --> 00:51:14.767
- And some have
no food stores at all.

00:51:14.800 --> 00:51:17.700
- And some neighborhoods
have farmers\' markets.

00:51:17.733 --> 00:51:19.867
- There\'s only two in Harlem.

00:51:19.900 --> 00:51:21.467
- Having a farmers\' market

00:51:21.500 --> 00:51:24.333
in your neighborhood
changes everything.

00:51:24.367 --> 00:51:25.633
- We did a little research,

00:51:25.667 --> 00:51:27.367
and here\'s where
some farmers\' markets are

00:51:27.400 --> 00:51:29.467
in Manhattan.

00:51:29.500 --> 00:51:33.000
- But in Harlem,
where our friend Caleb lives,

00:51:33.033 --> 00:51:35.867
it\'s mostly fast food
restaurants.

00:51:35.900 --> 00:51:38.433
- That does not seem right.

00:51:41.633 --> 00:51:42.967
- So we went to the office

00:51:43.000 --> 00:51:45.167
of the president
of the borough of Manhattan...

00:51:45.200 --> 00:51:48.000
- To find out
what he was doing about it.

00:51:48.033 --> 00:51:49.500
- I\'m your president.

00:51:49.533 --> 00:51:50.933
I have a say in what happens

00:51:50.967 --> 00:51:53.200
in every local neighborhood
from Washington Heights

00:51:53.233 --> 00:51:56.333
all the way down
to the Lower East Side.

00:51:56.367 --> 00:51:59.400
- So do you have a say in
where the farmers\' markets go?

00:51:59.433 --> 00:52:02.533
- I have worked very closely
with the farmers\' markets

00:52:02.567 --> 00:52:04.300
to make sure
that they are placed

00:52:04.333 --> 00:52:05.733
in all our neighborhoods.

00:52:05.767 --> 00:52:07.733
- My friend Caleb,
who lives in Harlem,

00:52:07.767 --> 00:52:09.467
his dad just had a heart attack.

00:52:09.500 --> 00:52:12.667
And he said that when they
have to go shop for food,

00:52:12.700 --> 00:52:16.467
they have to go
out of Harlem to get good food,

00:52:16.500 --> 00:52:19.067
because they want to start
eating healthy and stuff.

00:52:19.100 --> 00:52:22.133
- Everybody should have
the same access to healthy food,

00:52:22.167 --> 00:52:23.667
but in places
in the Harlem community,

00:52:23.700 --> 00:52:25.467
that hasn\'t been the case
for quite some time.

00:52:25.500 --> 00:52:28.633
When we did our Go Green
initiative in East Harlem,

00:52:28.667 --> 00:52:30.800
I just found
that people didn\'t know

00:52:30.833 --> 00:52:32.600
that there were other options

00:52:32.633 --> 00:52:35.133
besides the bodega
or the supermarket

00:52:35.167 --> 00:52:37.400
that was carrying
all the unhealthy foods.

00:52:37.433 --> 00:52:40.033
So if you really wanted
to have a healthy diet,

00:52:40.067 --> 00:52:41.467
you couldn\'t find the food.

00:52:41.500 --> 00:52:42.633
The best thing we did is,

00:52:42.667 --> 00:52:44.167
we worked with
the business community

00:52:44.200 --> 00:52:45.633
and neighborhood leaders

00:52:45.667 --> 00:52:47.800
and created The Go Green
East Harlem Cookbook

00:52:47.833 --> 00:52:49.933
both in English and in Spanish.

00:52:49.967 --> 00:52:52.300
And all young people
took these amazing pictures

00:52:52.333 --> 00:52:54.067
of all the chefs

00:52:54.100 --> 00:52:56.433
and the people
who donated a healthy recipe,

00:52:56.467 --> 00:52:58.767
and we\'re giving away
thousands of these cookbooks

00:52:58.800 --> 00:53:00.533
to the residents
of the community.

00:53:00.567 --> 00:53:01.633
- For free?
- For free.

00:53:01.667 --> 00:53:02.800
Our attitude was,

00:53:02.833 --> 00:53:04.333
well, we\'re going
to create this book,

00:53:04.367 --> 00:53:05.800
so people are going
to go to the stores

00:53:05.833 --> 00:53:07.633
and start demanding
the healthy ingredients,

00:53:07.667 --> 00:53:08.667
say, \"Wait a minute.

00:53:08.700 --> 00:53:09.967
\"Why do I have to go
to New Jersey,

00:53:10.000 --> 00:53:11.433
\"or why do I have to go
to the East Side?

00:53:11.467 --> 00:53:12.433
I live in Manhattan.\"

00:53:12.467 --> 00:53:13.767
I mean, it\'s almost unbelievable

00:53:13.800 --> 00:53:15.300
if you think about
how ludicrous it is,

00:53:15.333 --> 00:53:17.567
that you can\'t go
into your local store

00:53:17.600 --> 00:53:19.567
and get the healthy produce
you need,

00:53:19.600 --> 00:53:22.067
so that... not only
after you have a heart attack

00:53:22.100 --> 00:53:23.733
but to prevent a heart attack.

00:53:23.767 --> 00:53:25.300
- If we can get it
into one neighborhood,

00:53:25.333 --> 00:53:27.200
why can\'t we get it
into the other neighborhood?

00:53:27.233 --> 00:53:28.833
It just doesn\'t make sense,

00:53:28.867 --> 00:53:31.533
so we should have it
in all neighborhoods,

00:53:31.567 --> 00:53:33.867
but since we don\'t,
we need to get it in there

00:53:33.900 --> 00:53:35.533
as soon as possible.

00:53:35.567 --> 00:53:37.900
- Well, you\'re absolutely right.

00:53:37.933 --> 00:53:40.133
- The borough president
told us about some markets

00:53:40.167 --> 00:53:41.933
that we didn\'t find on the web.

00:53:41.967 --> 00:53:44.733
- In fact, the woman
on the cover of the cookbook

00:53:44.767 --> 00:53:47.733
runs one right near
where Caleb and John live.

00:53:47.767 --> 00:53:48.733
Both: Hi.

00:53:48.767 --> 00:53:50.733
- Welcome to
the Harvest Home Market.

00:53:50.767 --> 00:53:52.200
- We actually recognize you

00:53:52.233 --> 00:53:56.100
from the cover of The Go Green
East Harlem Cookbook.

00:53:56.133 --> 00:53:57.100
- Hi.
- Hi.

00:53:57.133 --> 00:53:58.367
- This is great.
- Thank you.

00:53:58.400 --> 00:54:01.033
- We live, like,
a couple of blocks up.

00:54:01.067 --> 00:54:02.867
- Oh, so you\'re
in the neighborhood.

00:54:02.900 --> 00:54:04.767
- I mean, just, like,
the fact that this is here,

00:54:04.800 --> 00:54:06.567
people can come here
and buy fresh things,

00:54:06.600 --> 00:54:07.967
it\'s fantastic.

00:54:08.000 --> 00:54:09.267
- Yeah,
we\'ve been here 12 years.

00:54:09.300 --> 00:54:10.533
- Wow.
- I know that\'s...

00:54:10.567 --> 00:54:11.700
- This has been here 12 years?

00:54:11.733 --> 00:54:12.833
- It\'s interesting.

00:54:12.867 --> 00:54:14.367
A lot of people
didn\'t know we\'re here.

00:54:14.400 --> 00:54:16.200
So that\'s one of the things
we\'re working on now.

00:54:16.233 --> 00:54:17.767
We\'re trying to kind of
get the word out.

00:54:17.800 --> 00:54:19.800
That\'s why I think Go Green
is going to be good for us.

00:54:19.833 --> 00:54:21.033
So people can connect.

00:54:21.067 --> 00:54:22.133
One of the challenges

00:54:22.167 --> 00:54:23.607
that we have
with the farmers\' market

00:54:23.633 --> 00:54:25.367
is that people come to us,
and they ask Errol,

00:54:25.400 --> 00:54:27.700
\"How come
you don\'t have plantains?\"

00:54:27.733 --> 00:54:29.533
Or, \"How come
you don\'t have pineapples?\"

00:54:29.567 --> 00:54:30.933
And that\'s because
all the produce

00:54:30.967 --> 00:54:32.533
that we have at the market
is regional.

00:54:32.567 --> 00:54:33.567
That\'s one of the things

00:54:33.600 --> 00:54:35.433
that we
have to teach people about.

00:54:35.467 --> 00:54:38.567
- You look like a rabbit.

00:54:38.600 --> 00:54:40.400
- So this is David Hardy.

00:54:40.433 --> 00:54:41.967
He\'s our market manager.

00:54:42.000 --> 00:54:44.400
- So what do you do
to manage the market?

00:54:44.433 --> 00:54:46.167
- I often ask myself
the same question.

00:54:46.200 --> 00:54:47.600
I say, \"What do I do?\"

00:54:47.633 --> 00:54:51.100
Well, actually.
I\'ve become more of a P.R. man.

00:54:51.133 --> 00:54:52.900
I grab people.

00:54:52.933 --> 00:54:54.467
If they\'ve never had
a scallion before,

00:54:54.500 --> 00:54:56.033
I introduce them
to the scallion.

00:54:56.067 --> 00:54:57.567
I give out recipes.

00:54:57.600 --> 00:54:59.467
But sometimes it just takes
a leading of the hand

00:54:59.500 --> 00:55:00.533
to say, \"Hey, you!\"

00:55:00.567 --> 00:55:01.700
And you bring them over,

00:55:01.733 --> 00:55:04.033
and then you say,
\"Look what I have.\"

00:55:04.067 --> 00:55:05.433
And they want
to know what it is.

00:55:05.467 --> 00:55:08.600
- What\'s your favorite thing?

00:55:08.633 --> 00:55:10.933
- Well, actually,
chocolate cake and ice cream.

00:55:10.967 --> 00:55:12.267
[laughter]

00:55:12.300 --> 00:55:14.233
- Some of us can\'t eat that
all the time.

00:55:14.267 --> 00:55:15.867
- Martin has been here
since 2004.

00:55:15.900 --> 00:55:18.600
We have a very large
Mexican population,

00:55:18.633 --> 00:55:20.933
and the first week
that Martin came here,

00:55:20.967 --> 00:55:22.833
they flocked to his table.

00:55:22.867 --> 00:55:25.933
- [speaking Spanish]

00:55:30.567 --> 00:55:32.000
- I don\'t think
a lot of people realize

00:55:32.033 --> 00:55:33.300
that you can use
your WIC voucher

00:55:33.333 --> 00:55:35.000
in a farmers\' market,
and they accept it.

00:55:35.033 --> 00:55:36.633
- Most of the farmers\' markets
that we do,

00:55:36.667 --> 00:55:39.067
because they\'re primarily
in low-income areas,

00:55:39.100 --> 00:55:41.000
that\'s what kind of
supports these markets,

00:55:41.033 --> 00:55:42.733
because we don\'t have
a lot of cash.

00:55:42.767 --> 00:55:44.367
Like, if you went
to Union Square,

00:55:44.400 --> 00:55:45.600
most people spend cash.

00:55:45.633 --> 00:55:47.967
If you come here,
most people spend coupons,

00:55:48.000 --> 00:55:50.600
and that coupons has actually
been a win-win program

00:55:50.633 --> 00:55:53.133
for both community residents
and for the farmers,

00:55:53.167 --> 00:55:55.200
because that\'s what
makes the farmers\' market

00:55:55.233 --> 00:55:56.267
works in these areas.

00:55:56.300 --> 00:55:57.833
- In a lot of these communities,

00:55:57.867 --> 00:55:59.500
supermarkets
are actually closing down.

00:55:59.533 --> 00:56:01.967
So what people have is,
to go to bodegas to buy things.

00:56:02.000 --> 00:56:03.900
They don\'t have a lot
of the stuff you see here.

00:56:03.933 --> 00:56:04.967
You can\'t buy lettuce.

00:56:05.000 --> 00:56:06.300
- This year,
I\'m actually working

00:56:06.333 --> 00:56:07.633
at the Department of Health

00:56:07.667 --> 00:56:09.633
to try to get some of
this produce into the bodegas.

00:56:09.667 --> 00:56:11.533
I\'m going to place
the orders with the farmers,

00:56:11.567 --> 00:56:14.133
and then the bodega owners
are going to come directly here

00:56:14.167 --> 00:56:15.400
and pick up their produce,

00:56:15.433 --> 00:56:16.473
so people in the community

00:56:16.500 --> 00:56:17.900
will then have access
to the produce

00:56:17.933 --> 00:56:19.700
way beyond them farmers\' market,

00:56:19.733 --> 00:56:21.267
because we\'re only here
one day a week.

00:56:21.300 --> 00:56:23.300
- That\'s great.

00:56:39.000 --> 00:56:40.233
- Come on.

00:56:40.267 --> 00:56:43.267
- You got to really
dig your fingers down there.

00:56:43.300 --> 00:56:45.300
- We got two carrots.

00:56:45.333 --> 00:56:46.300
- \"Carrito.\"

00:56:46.333 --> 00:56:49.200
- It\'s so pretty!

00:56:49.233 --> 00:56:53.067
Those are actually the carrots
that Farmer Ball gave us.

00:56:53.100 --> 00:56:54.400
- Ooh, raspberries.

00:56:54.433 --> 00:56:55.567
- Can I have one?

00:56:55.600 --> 00:56:59.033
- Yes, I will give Safiyah
the fat one.

00:56:59.067 --> 00:57:00.100
- Thank you.

00:57:00.133 --> 00:57:02.500
- I love lettuce.

00:57:02.533 --> 00:57:04.367
Lettuce.

00:57:12.833 --> 00:57:14.067
- These are the printouts

00:57:14.100 --> 00:57:16.067
from our physical activity
last week.

00:57:16.100 --> 00:57:18.400
So this is your chart.

00:57:18.433 --> 00:57:19.500
And right there,

00:57:19.533 --> 00:57:21.967
it\'s the total calories
that you burned.

00:57:22.000 --> 00:57:23.567
- Yeah, that\'s when I was sick.

00:57:23.600 --> 00:57:25.000
It\'s a flat line.

00:57:25.033 --> 00:57:27.667
I walked to one cushion
to the other, basically.

00:57:27.700 --> 00:57:28.900
But I didn\'t eat anything,

00:57:28.933 --> 00:57:30.733
so I guess
it sort of evened out.

00:57:30.767 --> 00:57:31.833
- Yeah.

00:57:40.700 --> 00:57:43.867
- Hey, Sadie, good to see you.

00:57:43.900 --> 00:57:46.200
My goodness,
it\'s been such a long time.

00:57:46.233 --> 00:57:50.000
Okay, blood pressure.

00:57:50.033 --> 00:57:51.400
Okay.

00:57:51.433 --> 00:57:52.967
Over time, the high cholesterol

00:57:53.000 --> 00:57:54.533
can cause high blood pressure,

00:57:54.567 --> 00:57:57.767
and the high blood pressure
will damage the arteries

00:57:57.800 --> 00:58:01.033
and cause more cholesterol
to go into the artery.

00:58:01.067 --> 00:58:03.433
102 over 50, it\'s fine.

00:58:03.467 --> 00:58:05.233
Okay, so I have good news.

00:58:05.267 --> 00:58:07.633
We have
your cholesterol result back.

00:58:07.667 --> 00:58:10.300
It\'s the lowest
that I\'ve ever seen.

00:58:10.333 --> 00:58:13.300
It\'s 214.

00:58:13.333 --> 00:58:16.667
- When she started,
she recalled she had 262.

00:58:16.700 --> 00:58:18.267
I think it was
right around there, right?

00:58:18.300 --> 00:58:19.367
- For the total?

00:58:19.400 --> 00:58:20.367
266.

00:58:20.400 --> 00:58:22.033
- 266.

00:58:22.067 --> 00:58:23.567
I can\'t believe
she remembered that.

00:58:23.600 --> 00:58:25.433
- And this was a very,
very large reduction.

00:58:25.467 --> 00:58:28.800
Your good cholesterol level,
on top of all this good news,

00:58:28.833 --> 00:58:32.700
is 53, and we want it above 40.

00:58:32.733 --> 00:58:34.500
- And where was it
when she started?

00:58:34.533 --> 00:58:36.000
- 39.

00:58:36.033 --> 00:58:37.367
So that\'s major.

00:58:37.400 --> 00:58:39.900
And this has been
totally by following

00:58:39.933 --> 00:58:43.800
a healthy diet
and level of physical activity.

00:58:43.833 --> 00:58:48.100
My view is that all children
from the age of seven on

00:58:48.133 --> 00:58:51.633
should have at least one
complete lipid profile,

00:58:51.667 --> 00:58:55.633
and there\'s such a larger number
of black and Hispanic kids

00:58:55.667 --> 00:58:57.433
who are overweight.

00:58:57.467 --> 00:58:59.167
Half of middle-aged adults

00:58:59.200 --> 00:59:02.900
are going to fall into
the high cholesterol criteria.

00:59:02.933 --> 00:59:04.467
- Half?
- Yes.

00:59:04.500 --> 00:59:06.700
It\'s much more of a problem
in this country

00:59:06.733 --> 00:59:07.900
than in other countries

00:59:07.933 --> 00:59:09.367
who have
different eating patterns

00:59:09.400 --> 00:59:11.367
and different levels
of physical activity.

00:59:11.400 --> 00:59:15.267
[peaceful piano music]

00:59:15.300 --> 00:59:19.067
- We all need to eat.

00:59:19.100 --> 00:59:23.667
- But eating doesn\'t need
to make us sick.

00:59:23.700 --> 00:59:26.700
- When did food
get to be so dangerous?

00:59:29.700 --> 00:59:31.733
- Sometimes
I think it\'d be great

00:59:31.767 --> 00:59:34.033
if we could just start over.

00:59:34.067 --> 00:59:36.433
- And live like bees.

00:59:36.467 --> 00:59:37.933
- Yeah.

00:59:37.967 --> 00:59:38.933
They make their food.

00:59:38.967 --> 00:59:40.167
- They share their food.

00:59:40.200 --> 00:59:41.600
- Nothing is wasted.

00:59:41.633 --> 00:59:43.800
- And they get what they need.

00:59:43.833 --> 00:59:46.833
- It just works.

01:00:00.667 --> 01:00:02.333
- Hi.
- Hi.

01:00:02.367 --> 01:00:03.633
- How\'s it going?

01:00:03.667 --> 01:00:04.633
- Nice to meet you guys.

01:00:04.667 --> 01:00:05.900
I like your shirts.
- Thanks.

01:00:05.933 --> 01:00:07.567
- Very cool.

01:00:07.600 --> 01:00:09.033
- What is a CSA?

01:00:09.067 --> 01:00:11.633
- CSA stands for \"Community
Supported Agriculture,\"

01:00:11.667 --> 01:00:12.900
and it\'s really a partnership

01:00:12.933 --> 01:00:16.567
between people here in the city
and people on the farm.

01:00:16.600 --> 01:00:18.900
We pay for the work
that they do up on the farm,

01:00:18.933 --> 01:00:20.900
help the stuff grow,
and then in return,

01:00:20.933 --> 01:00:22.133
they come down every week

01:00:22.167 --> 01:00:24.033
and make sure we all
have something to eat,

01:00:24.067 --> 01:00:26.133
so works out good
for both of us.

01:00:26.167 --> 01:00:28.733
[man singing]
Vegetable man.

01:00:28.767 --> 01:00:31.967
Oh, I got stuff for you,

01:00:32.000 --> 01:00:35.467
got the fresh stuff.

01:00:35.500 --> 01:00:39.400
I\'m your vegetable man, baby.

01:00:39.433 --> 01:00:44.233
I got the fresh vegetable
for you every day.

01:00:44.267 --> 01:00:45.233
- They write on the board

01:00:45.267 --> 01:00:47.100
what each family gets that week.

01:00:47.133 --> 01:00:50.267
- And members
bring their own bags.

01:00:50.300 --> 01:00:53.133
- We have two cucumbers.

01:00:53.167 --> 01:00:55.467
- Wait, I like this cucumber.

01:00:55.500 --> 01:00:57.300
- Okay,
Sadie likes this cucumber.

01:00:57.333 --> 01:00:58.700
We take this cucumber.

01:00:58.733 --> 01:01:01.167
[man singing]
I have got the greens.

01:01:01.200 --> 01:01:04.000
I\'ve got the browns.

01:01:04.033 --> 01:01:06.967
It\'s good.

01:01:07.000 --> 01:01:09.500
Just might slap your mama down.

01:01:09.533 --> 01:01:11.100
I got green beans.

01:01:11.133 --> 01:01:12.833
- Claire.

01:01:12.867 --> 01:01:14.667
- Yes, indeed.

01:01:14.700 --> 01:01:16.133
- How many people are members?

01:01:16.167 --> 01:01:18.033
- We have 100 families

01:01:18.067 --> 01:01:20.267
who have purchased
a share of a farm.

01:01:20.300 --> 01:01:22.567
- How long have you been
with the CSA?

01:01:22.600 --> 01:01:24.200
- This is my first season.

01:01:24.233 --> 01:01:26.500
- Why did you switch to the CSA?

01:01:26.533 --> 01:01:27.933
- Well, it gives you
better food,

01:01:27.967 --> 01:01:29.000
and I think it\'s better

01:01:29.033 --> 01:01:31.133
for the whole
New York community.

01:01:31.167 --> 01:01:32.967
- I want to feed my kids

01:01:33.000 --> 01:01:36.200
things that are filled
with good stuff

01:01:36.233 --> 01:01:37.500
instead of things

01:01:37.533 --> 01:01:38.967
that you don\'t want
to feed your kids.

01:01:39.000 --> 01:01:40.500
It\'s better for the land.

01:01:40.533 --> 01:01:41.900
It\'s better for the farmer.

01:01:41.933 --> 01:01:43.367
It\'s better for everybody.

01:01:43.400 --> 01:01:45.600
And it also tastes better.

01:01:45.633 --> 01:01:48.433
- Saf?

01:01:48.467 --> 01:01:52.867
Just a little bit more.

01:01:52.900 --> 01:01:53.867
[laughter]

01:01:53.900 --> 01:01:55.300
- No...

01:01:55.333 --> 01:01:56.500
- Our deal with our farmer

01:01:56.533 --> 01:01:59.833
is that we could have
100 vegetable shares,

01:01:59.867 --> 01:02:01.233
and that\'s all he can grow,

01:02:01.267 --> 01:02:03.200
because he works
with groups around the city.

01:02:03.233 --> 01:02:04.800
He\'s got about eight groups
that he does.

01:02:04.833 --> 01:02:06.400
You know, people in New York
doing CSAs

01:02:06.433 --> 01:02:07.667
support his family.

01:02:07.700 --> 01:02:09.667
You know, in return,
he\'s basically feeding

01:02:09.700 --> 01:02:11.300
hundreds of families
in New York City.

01:02:11.333 --> 01:02:13.400
- That\'s, like, 800.

01:02:13.433 --> 01:02:15.967
- Yeah, it\'s one guy
with a lot of mouths to feed.

01:02:16.000 --> 01:02:20.467
- But if every New Yorker
were to eat organically,

01:02:20.500 --> 01:02:22.367
there\'s about 8 million people
in New York, so...

01:02:22.400 --> 01:02:23.367
- Right, so what then?

01:02:23.400 --> 01:02:24.567
I think that it\'s encouraging

01:02:24.600 --> 01:02:26.000
that there are
a lot more farmers.

01:02:26.033 --> 01:02:28.100
Organic farming
is a hard business,

01:02:28.133 --> 01:02:30.300
and one of the ways
that people are finding

01:02:30.333 --> 01:02:33.400
they can make it work
is by doing CSA.

01:02:33.433 --> 01:02:36.400
- Two, three.

01:02:36.433 --> 01:02:38.267
- A CSA might be a good way

01:02:38.300 --> 01:02:40.867
for the Angel family
to keep farming.

01:02:40.900 --> 01:02:43.100
- People could count on
the vegetables.

01:02:43.133 --> 01:02:44.800
- And the Angels
could count on the money

01:02:44.833 --> 01:02:47.833
earlier in the season
when they need it.

01:03:10.000 --> 01:03:11.667
- These are the eggplants
you guys planted.

01:03:11.700 --> 01:03:13.167
- Cool.

01:03:13.200 --> 01:03:15.000
- There\'s a lot of
different type of eggplants.

01:03:15.033 --> 01:03:17.167
There\'s white, Black Beauty,
and striped.

01:03:17.200 --> 01:03:18.467
They\'re all good.

01:03:18.500 --> 01:03:20.167
This one\'s ready,
if you want to pick it out.

01:03:20.200 --> 01:03:22.100
The Black Beauties,
they have thistles,

01:03:22.133 --> 01:03:25.033
and, like, sometimes they hurt
when you yank them,

01:03:25.067 --> 01:03:30.200
so we mostly use scissors
to, like, cut them.

01:03:30.233 --> 01:03:32.433
- I got pricked.

01:03:55.167 --> 01:03:57.533
- Oh, yeah,
those are the carrots.

01:03:57.567 --> 01:04:00.667
- Yeah, you have to pull
from, like, the very bottom.

01:04:00.700 --> 01:04:02.333
Whoa.

01:04:02.367 --> 01:04:04.800
- This one looks
like it\'s going to be big.

01:04:04.833 --> 01:04:05.867
- Whoa.

01:04:05.900 --> 01:04:07.367
- Oh, this a good one.

01:04:07.400 --> 01:04:09.667
I just take a slingshot.

01:04:09.700 --> 01:04:11.667
- You take it.

01:04:11.700 --> 01:04:14.500
- Yeah.

01:04:14.533 --> 01:04:17.133
- This is actually
really addictive.

01:04:17.167 --> 01:04:18.200
- Whoa...

01:04:18.233 --> 01:04:25.600
- Whoa, that is an awesome
mega one.

01:04:25.633 --> 01:04:27.600
- She got it.

01:04:27.633 --> 01:04:30.800
- That one\'s really long.

01:04:30.833 --> 01:04:33.233
- This is my bounty.

01:04:47.267 --> 01:04:49.700
- Not many kids
get to be farmers.

01:04:49.733 --> 01:04:51.033
When I was actually
a little kid,

01:04:51.067 --> 01:04:53.033
they said, \"What do you
want to be when you grow up?\"

01:04:53.067 --> 01:04:54.533
I wrote,
\"I want to be a farmer.\"

01:04:54.567 --> 01:04:56.367
I wrote that paper,
like, ten years ago,

01:04:56.400 --> 01:04:58.433
and I found it recently,
and I showed my mom,

01:04:58.467 --> 01:05:03.033
and it had a picture of me
with that rake, farming.

01:05:03.067 --> 01:05:04.233
My grandfather,

01:05:04.267 --> 01:05:06.033
he\'s, like, a really,
really big farmer.

01:05:06.067 --> 01:05:09.067
[speaking Spanish]

01:05:11.733 --> 01:05:14.733
- [speaking Spanish]

01:05:19.333 --> 01:05:22.333
[singing in Spanish]

01:05:25.700 --> 01:05:27.933
- He comes every year,
and he helps us.

01:05:27.967 --> 01:05:30.967
All the advice came
from him and my grandmother,

01:05:31.000 --> 01:05:34.367
because they\'re, like,
the big top-dog farmers.

01:06:02.667 --> 01:06:04.667
- I haven\'t tried beets
in a while,

01:06:04.700 --> 01:06:07.433
but these will probably
taste a lot better.

01:06:27.200 --> 01:06:29.500
- We found out so much
about healthy food...

01:06:29.533 --> 01:06:30.500
- Why we should eat it...

01:06:30.533 --> 01:06:32.100
- And where we can get it.

01:06:32.133 --> 01:06:35.167
- So now it\'s time to cook it.

01:06:35.200 --> 01:06:36.833
- We asked our friend Bryant...

01:06:36.867 --> 01:06:38.100
- He\'s an eco chef.

01:06:38.133 --> 01:06:39.433
- To come make it with us.

01:06:39.467 --> 01:06:41.267
All: Go, green, go!

01:06:41.300 --> 01:06:43.100
- We\'re going to the CSA.

01:06:43.133 --> 01:06:45.633
I\'m a member of a CSA
in Oakland where I live.

01:06:45.667 --> 01:06:46.633
- That\'s pretty big.

01:06:46.667 --> 01:06:51.267
- It\'s a really good deal.

01:06:51.300 --> 01:06:54.300
Whoo!

01:06:54.333 --> 01:06:55.367
When we get to the CSA,

01:06:55.400 --> 01:06:56.367
I really want you guys

01:06:56.400 --> 01:06:57.700
to think about what\'s available

01:06:57.733 --> 01:07:00.233
and what you might
want to cook from it.

01:07:00.267 --> 01:07:02.400
- The CSA\'s right there.

01:07:02.433 --> 01:07:03.633
- Oh, it\'s outside?

01:07:03.667 --> 01:07:04.633
Oh, cool.

01:07:04.667 --> 01:07:06.367
This is so beautiful.

01:07:06.400 --> 01:07:07.500
We get basil.

01:07:07.533 --> 01:07:08.967
What are we going
to use the basil for?

01:07:09.000 --> 01:07:10.100
Pesto.
- Pesto.

01:07:10.133 --> 01:07:11.100
- Corn.

01:07:11.133 --> 01:07:13.467
- Yeah.

01:07:13.500 --> 01:07:15.467
- Can we put that in the pasta?

01:07:15.500 --> 01:07:16.567
- I love spicy.

01:07:16.600 --> 01:07:18.233
This looks like it\'s hot.

01:07:18.267 --> 01:07:20.867
- It\'s going to be a feast.

01:07:25.833 --> 01:07:26.967
Let\'s go.

01:07:27.000 --> 01:07:27.967
- Let\'s make ice cream.

01:07:28.000 --> 01:07:28.967
- Yes!

01:07:29.000 --> 01:07:30.300
- All right, so, guys...

01:07:30.333 --> 01:07:32.467
[laughter]

01:07:32.500 --> 01:07:35.000
- 3 cups of coconut milk.

01:07:35.033 --> 01:07:37.967
- Mix coconut milk
with the arrowroot.

01:07:38.000 --> 01:07:41.133
- 6 tablespoons of agave nectar

01:07:41.167 --> 01:07:43.867
and 2 cups
of diced fresh peaches.

01:07:48.533 --> 01:07:50.100
- I took a peach.

01:07:50.133 --> 01:07:51.500
- So, yeah, we can
just let this cook

01:07:51.533 --> 01:07:52.833
for about two to three minutes.

01:07:52.867 --> 01:07:55.767
Once it starts to thicken up,
it\'ll be ready.

01:07:55.800 --> 01:07:59.367
We\'re going do
some sautéed corn.

01:07:59.400 --> 01:08:02.900
Watch that finger.

01:08:02.933 --> 01:08:06.333
Sure, try it.

01:08:06.367 --> 01:08:07.533
[laughter]

01:08:07.567 --> 01:08:12.867
- I\'m eating the corn mush.

01:08:12.900 --> 01:08:13.900
- There you go.

01:08:13.933 --> 01:08:17.000
More, more.
There you go.

01:08:17.033 --> 01:08:19.133
Okay.

01:08:19.167 --> 01:08:20.633
Her hands are clean.

01:08:20.667 --> 01:08:22.933
- Sadie, you\'re pouring it in.

01:08:22.967 --> 01:08:23.933
- Can I try it?

01:08:23.967 --> 01:08:24.933
- Yeah, go for it.

01:08:24.967 --> 01:08:25.933
- Yum.
It\'s good.

01:08:25.967 --> 01:08:28.433
- I concur.
It is good.

01:08:28.467 --> 01:08:34.933
- Fresh, local, organic food
and really simple recipes.

01:08:34.967 --> 01:08:37.733
Crew, these are the people
I told you about.

01:08:37.767 --> 01:08:42.733
These are, like, some
of the best chefs that I know.

01:08:45.233 --> 01:08:47.900
- Nice.
Mozzarella di Bufala.

01:08:47.933 --> 01:08:49.867
- Sprinkle the salt with love,

01:08:49.900 --> 01:08:51.100
And a little over the shoulder.

01:08:51.133 --> 01:08:52.500
- So you guys
grow plants here too.

01:08:52.533 --> 01:08:53.533
That\'s great.

01:08:53.567 --> 01:08:54.767
- Some of the window gardens,

01:08:54.800 --> 01:08:56.967
there\'s tomatoes and some basil.

01:08:57.000 --> 01:09:00.367
- Why don\'t you go
pick some for us?

01:09:00.400 --> 01:09:02.700
- And there\'s tomatoes
in the other window.

01:09:02.733 --> 01:09:03.700
- How local can you get?

01:09:03.733 --> 01:09:06.633
- Rub it, gentle, with love.

01:09:06.667 --> 01:09:08.867
- Oh, and it\'s going to be
wonderful in our pasta sauce.

01:09:08.900 --> 01:09:09.933
Oh!

01:09:09.967 --> 01:09:11.900
- Press down
and rock it through.

01:09:11.933 --> 01:09:14.667
- I like really garlicky pesto,

01:09:14.700 --> 01:09:16.600
so I hope you guys
don\'t have plans

01:09:16.633 --> 01:09:18.233
on, like,
smooching anybody later,

01:09:18.267 --> 01:09:21.933
\'cause it\'s going to be on
and popping with the garlic.

01:09:21.967 --> 01:09:23.600
- I grew up looking
at my grandmother cook.

01:09:23.633 --> 01:09:24.600
My grandmother would cook

01:09:24.633 --> 01:09:26.700
from the morning
till the evening,

01:09:26.733 --> 01:09:28.167
and we\'d be eating dinner,

01:09:28.200 --> 01:09:30.833
and she\'d be like, \"What are
we having for breakfast?\"

01:09:30.867 --> 01:09:34.067
And it was just great.

01:09:34.100 --> 01:09:37.000
When you\'re in the kitchen,
you\'re like Picasso.

01:09:37.033 --> 01:09:40.667
You\'re like the artist within,
coming out.

01:09:40.700 --> 01:09:42.467
Ooh, ooh, ooh!
Bam, ooh!

01:09:42.500 --> 01:09:44.933
- When I say good, you say food.

01:09:44.967 --> 01:09:46.167
Good.
All: Food!

01:09:46.200 --> 01:09:49.100
Good.
All: Food!

01:09:49.133 --> 01:09:53.733
- The Caprese salad.

01:09:53.767 --> 01:09:56.833
Both: The sautéed corn.

01:09:56.867 --> 01:09:59.467
- And with peach in it,

01:09:59.500 --> 01:10:01.700
we have our coconut ice cream.

01:10:01.733 --> 01:10:03.367
- I\'m just putting
the final touches on it,

01:10:03.400 --> 01:10:04.700
giving it a little more herbs,

01:10:04.733 --> 01:10:07.367
a little more love.

01:10:07.400 --> 01:10:13.367
[exotic instrumental music]

01:10:13.400 --> 01:10:16.400
[women singing
in native language]

01:10:19.367 --> 01:10:21.500
- You made that?

01:10:21.533 --> 01:10:24.333
- With Bryant\'s help.

01:10:24.367 --> 01:10:26.367
- We invited people
who helped us with the movie

01:10:26.400 --> 01:10:28.933
to come over
for some home-cooked food.

01:10:28.967 --> 01:10:30.467
- And my corn.

01:10:30.500 --> 01:10:33.500
My corn.

01:10:45.667 --> 01:10:48.500
- Making this movie
taught us a lot.

01:10:48.533 --> 01:10:52.900
- Everyone knows
kids need good healthy food.

01:10:52.933 --> 01:10:54.567
- Food is the energy
for everything

01:10:54.600 --> 01:10:55.900
that you do in your life,

01:10:55.933 --> 01:10:57.767
doing jumping jacks, doing art,

01:10:57.800 --> 01:10:59.133
to walking down the street.

01:10:59.167 --> 01:11:01.900
So it\'s important
that you are feeding your body

01:11:01.933 --> 01:11:05.133
the best possible food.

01:11:05.167 --> 01:11:07.900
- It matters where
your food comes from.

01:11:07.933 --> 01:11:09.633
- Farmers\' markets
are one good way

01:11:09.667 --> 01:11:11.600
to shorten the food chain.

01:11:11.633 --> 01:11:13.867
- Because people
are asking for them,

01:11:13.900 --> 01:11:15.467
even more farmers\' markets

01:11:15.500 --> 01:11:18.400
have sprouted up
in Manhattan this year.

01:11:18.433 --> 01:11:20.067
- We opened up an office.

01:11:20.100 --> 01:11:21.733
- Where?
Congratulations.

01:11:21.767 --> 01:11:23.133
I\'m a lobbyist,
and what I\'ll do is,

01:11:23.167 --> 01:11:24.367
I\'ll help you with...

01:11:24.400 --> 01:11:26.000
- We\'re going to work
with John and Caleb

01:11:26.033 --> 01:11:30.267
to raise money for Maritza
so she can open more markets.

01:11:30.300 --> 01:11:34.033
- And we\'re going
to tell everyone about her.

01:11:34.067 --> 01:11:36.700
- The government definitely
doesn\'t give schools

01:11:36.733 --> 01:11:38.333
enough money for healthy food.

01:11:38.367 --> 01:11:41.100
- But small changes
can make a difference.

01:11:41.133 --> 01:11:43.733
- Even since you guys were
at The Neighborhood School,

01:11:43.767 --> 01:11:45.567
it\'s changed a lot in good ways.

01:11:45.600 --> 01:11:47.833
Like, there\'s more vegetables
available at lunch.

01:11:47.867 --> 01:11:49.867
I think there\'s salad every day.

01:11:49.900 --> 01:11:52.933
[man vocalizing]

01:11:52.967 --> 01:11:54.333
- Farmer Ball\'s carrots
did make it

01:11:54.367 --> 01:11:57.667
to our schools in New York City.

01:11:57.700 --> 01:11:59.333
The Neighborhood School

01:11:59.367 --> 01:12:01.600
got the healthy, no-fry menu
for next fall.

01:12:01.633 --> 01:12:02.700
- Let\'s see.
We have mint.

01:12:02.733 --> 01:12:06.100
- Most of the food
still comes frozen,

01:12:06.133 --> 01:12:09.100
and they say that Jackie\'s stove
could take five years.

01:12:09.133 --> 01:12:10.300
- This one\'s nice.

01:12:10.333 --> 01:12:12.400
- So we\'re going
to keep the pressure on

01:12:12.433 --> 01:12:13.667
so our little brothers

01:12:13.700 --> 01:12:15.800
and all the other kids
at The Neighborhood School

01:12:15.833 --> 01:12:19.200
will get better food.

01:12:21.933 --> 01:12:23.133
- Is there any way

01:12:23.167 --> 01:12:26.067
that we could successfully
feed people locally?

01:12:26.100 --> 01:12:27.740
- Yeah, and that\'s
a really good question.

01:12:27.767 --> 01:12:30.333
We have in the entire country,
about...

01:12:30.367 --> 01:12:32.000
Little bit less than
2 million farmers.

01:12:32.033 --> 01:12:34.300
We actually
have more people in prison

01:12:34.333 --> 01:12:36.100
than we have farming.

01:12:36.133 --> 01:12:40.033
And to me, that one fact
says so much

01:12:40.067 --> 01:12:43.100
about what we have chosen
to do as a country.

01:12:43.133 --> 01:12:44.833
The question you ask
touches on, like,

01:12:44.867 --> 01:12:47.033
one of
the most complicated pieces

01:12:47.067 --> 01:12:49.667
of this whole story,
which is, you know,

01:12:49.700 --> 01:12:52.367
actually how are we
going to make it work?

01:12:52.400 --> 01:12:53.800
- We have to spend
our food money

01:12:53.833 --> 01:12:57.233
on food from farmers,
not factories.

01:12:57.267 --> 01:12:59.133
- And if we want food
from farmers,

01:12:59.167 --> 01:13:00.933
we\'ve got to support farmers,

01:13:00.967 --> 01:13:03.767
get to know them,
help them plant and harvest.

01:13:03.800 --> 01:13:06.200
- Angel Family Farm.

01:13:06.233 --> 01:13:09.033
- And now our goal
is to organize a CSA

01:13:09.067 --> 01:13:11.167
that will support the Angels.

01:13:11.200 --> 01:13:14.333
[jazzy instrumental music]

01:13:14.367 --> 01:13:19.833
- [woman singing] Well.
Well, well, well, well.

01:13:19.867 --> 01:13:21.967
- So, hey, we\'re talking
about our neighborhood.

01:13:22.000 --> 01:13:24.000
- What about yours?

01:13:30.433 --> 01:13:35.533
- You are what you eat,

01:13:35.567 --> 01:13:40.433
if it swims, flies,
or walks on four feet.

01:13:40.467 --> 01:13:44.767
Who\'s paying the price?

01:13:44.800 --> 01:13:49.500
Makes a difference
how you live or you die.

01:13:49.533 --> 01:13:54.000
Who\'s making the rules?

01:13:54.033 --> 01:13:58.800
You got to know enough
to know how to choose.

01:13:58.833 --> 01:14:02.667
You\'ve got the power.
- Yeah.

01:14:02.700 --> 01:14:05.867
- Don\'t you let nobody
take it away.

01:14:05.900 --> 01:14:08.167
- No, no, no.

01:14:08.200 --> 01:14:10.567
- We can all do
something about it.

01:14:10.600 --> 01:14:12.933
Everybody stand and shout it.

01:14:12.967 --> 01:14:16.200
Don\'t let nobody
get in your way.

01:14:16.233 --> 01:14:17.833
Let\'s celebrate.

01:14:17.867 --> 01:14:20.233
- Let\'s celebrate.
- What you\'ll be.

01:14:20.267 --> 01:14:21.233
- Celebrate.

01:14:21.267 --> 01:14:22.500
- What\'s on your plate?

01:14:22.533 --> 01:14:24.567
- Let\'s celebrate.
- What you try.

01:14:24.600 --> 01:14:27.100
- Everybody celebrate.

01:14:27.133 --> 01:14:30.233
- Let\'s celebrate.
- Shining star.

01:14:30.267 --> 01:14:31.767
- What\'s on your plate?

01:14:31.800 --> 01:14:33.767
- Let\'s celebrate.

01:14:33.800 --> 01:14:36.467
- Everybody celebrate.

01:14:36.500 --> 01:14:39.000
- Let\'s celebrate.

01:14:39.033 --> 01:14:40.000
- Celebrate.

01:14:40.033 --> 01:14:41.167
- What\'s on your plate?

01:14:41.200 --> 01:14:43.167
- Let\'s celebrate.

01:14:43.200 --> 01:14:47.900
- Everybody celebrate.

01:14:47.933 --> 01:14:51.667
Ooh-ooh-oh, ooh-ooh.

01:14:51.700 --> 01:14:55.567
Hey-ey-ey, hey!

01:14:55.600 --> 01:14:59.733
Your life\'s like a flower.

01:14:59.767 --> 01:15:01.733
Look on the inside.

01:15:01.767 --> 01:15:04.767
Beauty lies within.

01:15:04.800 --> 01:15:09.400
Feed your body and your soul.

01:15:09.433 --> 01:15:10.600
Live your life

01:15:10.633 --> 01:15:13.833
so that you know you are whole.

01:15:13.867 --> 01:15:18.867
Ooh, who\'s making the rules?

01:15:18.900 --> 01:15:23.867
You got to know enough
to know how to choose.

01:15:23.900 --> 01:15:26.033
- You\'ve got the power.

01:15:26.067 --> 01:15:28.033
- You\'ve got the power.

01:15:28.067 --> 01:15:29.267
Don\'t let nobody take it away.

01:15:29.300 --> 01:15:34.000
- Oh, don\'t you let nobody
take it away.

01:15:34.033 --> 01:15:36.500
Oh, you can all do something
about it.

01:15:36.533 --> 01:15:38.800
Go on and go on and shout it.

01:15:38.833 --> 01:15:42.267
Oh, don\'t you let nobody
stand in your way.

01:15:42.300 --> 01:15:43.500
- Let\'s celebrate.

01:15:43.533 --> 01:15:45.067
- Oh, ooh.

01:15:45.100 --> 01:15:46.067
- Celebrate.

01:15:46.100 --> 01:15:47.200
- What\'s on your plate?

01:15:47.233 --> 01:15:48.867
- Let\'s celebrate.

01:15:48.900 --> 01:15:51.733
- We\'ve got to celebrate.

01:15:51.767 --> 01:15:52.900
- Let\'s celebrate.

01:15:52.933 --> 01:15:54.367
- What\'s on your plate?

01:15:54.400 --> 01:15:55.467
- Celebrate.

01:15:55.500 --> 01:15:56.567
- Oh, celebrate.

01:15:56.600 --> 01:15:57.700
- Let\'s celebrate.

01:15:57.733 --> 01:15:59.700
- Oh.

01:15:59.733 --> 01:16:02.433
What\'s on your plate?

01:16:02.467 --> 01:16:05.533
We got to celebrate.

01:16:05.567 --> 01:16:07.667
What\'s on your plate?

01:16:07.700 --> 01:16:10.733
We have got to celebrate.

01:16:10.767 --> 01:16:12.133
- Let\'s celebrate.

01:16:12.167 --> 01:16:16.467
- Oh...

01:16:16.500 --> 01:16:21.333
Oooh.
Let\'s celebrate.