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There\'s a time and… and this hasn\'t
happened before. This is a new situation

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that… that\'s going on in our country
is the killers of teenagers.

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What is affecting then is,
what is ah… affecting

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their health more than anything else, and
you all have already read this article.

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Ryan what are those two things? Drugs
and alcohol. Drugs and alcohol

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is being one thing and what else,
because alcohol is a drug,

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and what else? Jasmine? Obesity.
Obesity. We\'re ah…

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getting our BMI, our ah…
Body Mass Index check.

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Ah… And ah… We\'re doing that

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because so we know what place we are,
like whether we\'re like underweight or

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overweight. Or healthy. Or healthy. Right.
So how do you guys feel about

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the fact that they\'re taking these measurements?
I really didn\'t want to do it at first.

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It\'s kind of confident. Because ah…

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I didn\'t want to know. You\'re

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233 pounds. Okay. Do you
have those two numbers?

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Yeah, 5\'4\", 233. And a 172 pounds. 234,

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can you remember that? Okay. And 281.

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233 pounds. Okay. Do you
have those numbers?

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Yes! Alright. Chair, Nutrition Studies Dept., NYU/Author, Food
Politics Well, what\'s happened in schools is unprecedented

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and recently, starting in the late
1990\'s, schools began to make

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contracts with soft drink companies to allow
exclusive marketing of one or another

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soft drink in the school, and the result of
that was, was to put a lot of vending machines

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into schools. Now, it turns out if you\'ve got vending machines
in schools, kids use them. Parents give their kids money,

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the kids go and buy the stuff. And what went
into the vending machine were products of that

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particular company and the schools got a
lot discretionary money from the companies

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and everybody thought it was a win-win situation. The
school principal said, \"Well, the kids are gonna drink

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soft drinks anyway. What\'s wrong with having them
in school?\" Without really thinking through the

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consequences, if they\'re there that kids
will consume more of them. (ph) My name is

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Shanelle Bridges and this is my lunch. This
is what I eat every day; M&M Cookies,

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Munchies, Cheetos. I eat this
everyday on a daily basis. I never

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eat the cafeteria food, because I\'ve
gotten sick from it before, so I\'ll never

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eat it again and this is my lunch. In 1970,

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the US Department of Agriculture, also
known as the USDA, banned the sale of

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junk food inside school cafeterias, but
allowed clubs and vendors to sell junk food

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outside of the cafeteria.

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[sil.]

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Lanier High PTA I am
Jane Hampton and I\'m the

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president of this PTA
and I have the nickname

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\"The Cupcake Queen\", because all
our PTA did was sell cupcakes

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for fundraisers. We\'d ship
up cupcakes and I was the

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worst of them. I would go to
H-E-B and you can get that icing

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for 99 cents, load it up, I mean, can
after can after can, and you can get

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Duncan Hines for like 99 cents, a buck
quarter, and you go home, you whip that up,

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you\'ve done it. I mean, it doesn\'t take any time because you sit there and
you put it in the mixer and you put them in the oven, you let them cool,

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you ice them, to put them in a cardboard box, cover them, put
them in your car, put them in your car, put them in your car.

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We had a table at Lanier backed off

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specifically for cup cake drop off(ph).
We\'d have meetings about cup cakes.

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Before we wrote a check for our
senior party we had over $5,000.

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So that tells you how much
we sold in cup cakes.

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[sil.]

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Lobbyist, Texas Dietetic Association This is
the story of the cup cake prohibition in Texas

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and how we\'re addressing our
children\'s health needs

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through good nutritional practices in
schools. One of the most interesting aspects

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of this whole story is how did we succeed

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at least in part in
limiting the availability

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of junk foods in our public schools. Thank you
Ms. Berger, members if you have a child in

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public school or you have a… a grandchild
in public school then you know that

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if your child has a birthday they are,
you as the parent or grandparent,

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are prohibited from taking cup cakes

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for the child\'s birthday. We will buy like cakes in… for birthdays. Well,
we had… we can have cup cakes on birthdays. The teachers can\'t even

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give out candy for rewards. Yeah, no, no, no, they can\'t
give it out if it\'s, the first thing to read is sugar

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and they can\'t… they can\'t have it. Oh! They can give
out chocolate, because the first thing in chocolate

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I think is milk. Like cocoa. Never mind.
Plus chocolate is a vegetable,

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because you know cocoa beans but they add lots
of sugar. They took out a lot of like… like

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sugary stuff and stuff like that.
It\'s like unhealthy stuff.

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And they put in vegetables
and stuff like that.

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Well, yeah, I kind of like
the… the sugary stuff better,

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because it\'s like it just tastes better.
Lots of kids in like the

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\"Austin Area\" are \"Obese\".
So that\'s… Not good.

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It\'s taken out on our school, which Miss Amrock(ph)
says is one of the most healthy schools.

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So why should we have to not have
good stuff while the other kids

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have P.E. every day? Yeah,
nobody is fat in our school.

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[sil.]

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In 1972, the USDA was forced to

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reverse the ban on junk foods during
mealtimes, as long as the proceeds went to

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schools or school groups. The USDA was
also stripped of its authority to regulate

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junk foods and that authority was transferred
to state and local education boards.

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Parent Activist When my kids
entered the middle school, um…

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here in Austin, the food environment was, as
far as I was concerned, absolutely dreadful.

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They were asked by teachers, I mean, booster
clubs and different organizations to sell

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candy bars, starting 8:00 a.m. in the morning. In the
middle of the day there would be teachers selling sodas

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out of the classroom closets in order to
raise money. By lunch, the vending machines

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would be unlocked so the kids had access to them.
Booster clubs will be pulling card(ph) tables out of

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closets and piling them stacked high with candies
and sodas and chips and all kinds of things

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that kids would like to eat. The really sad thing
was that once they got into the cafeteria,

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because the cafeterias are
self-supporting and have to make money,

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in order to compete with all of the junk food that
the kids were eating all day long, the cafeterias

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had resorted to selling junk food themselves. Cafeteria Manager
O\'Henry Middle School Last year like… like you say before

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we were selling a lot of the
regular chips, ice cream and

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all the type of snacks. They were very popular
here. They changed it, we\'re selling the

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baked chips right now, but our
sales probably went like a

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80% less than that. They… They don\'t like
the chips. What did you guys eat today?

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Oh, I ate water and cookies, that\'s all.
I had some water. I had a Dr. Pepper

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and some candy. What did I have? I
had some water and one of those

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ring pop things. I bought a

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bottle of water, a ring pop,

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chips… and Chips Ahoy, Chips Ahoy and…

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and Reese\'s… and Reese\'s Bits.
Ah… I mean, let me see.

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And Ritz… And Ritz Bits.

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Is that unusual for you? Not really.

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Senate bill 474 which was

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supported by a number of
um… health organizations

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and it was a… a bill that had
to do with child nutrition

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and improvement in child and… child nutrition
environment in schools was not even

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allowed out of committee it was
killed in committee because

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the food and beverage industry did not like

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what it would do to their ability
to sell their products in schools.

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School administrators and school board members
came and testified against the bills because

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this would have deprived them of the
revenues that they have with their contracts

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for with vending companies and with
the soft drink companies that is

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for them what they think is important
money that they have important uses for.

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Vice Principal, Lainer High There would have to be a new way of addressing
the funding that would be lost if all the snack machines were taken out.

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And, pardon me, clubs and organizations
raise funds so they can do things

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and if they were not able to sell any
type of products in the school that were

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food-type products that… it would
hinder probably them tremendously.

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We would have to have a new different
product to sell and like the seniors they

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sell pens. There were so much
money involved um… people were so

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dependent on selling candy and
selling sodas, it is because

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it works if you sell wrapping paper you buy
wrapping paper once a year maybe. You buy candy bar

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and within a hour or two you\'re
ready to buy another one.

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In 1977, the political pendulum swings
back and the USDA\'s authority to

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regulate junk foods is restored. One
year later, the USDA attempts to

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restrict the sale of junk foods in schools.
In response PepsiCo organizes a

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letter writing campaign
opposing the USDA Authority.

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There was an article that came out in a paper that Austin
High took all the candy out of the machines and the kids

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developed their own black market by selling
candy bars out of their backpacks you know.

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Well, I wish the newspaper wouldn\'t have printed that
because a few of them tried to do that over here.

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The backlash of Commissioner
Combs\' rules that just simply

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banned the sale and determining
the large availability

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of junk foods in our public
school was generated

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when everyone realized that means
nobody, not just the local

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soft drink bottler, not
the local candy vendor,

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but the local PTA or the
local band booster or even

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mom and dad or grandma and
grandpa would be prohibited from

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bringing junk food to school. I find the new guidelines
for schools limiting the servings of baked potato

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products unacceptable, will the next step
be the Atkins diet for school children?

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This is ridiculous. You should not target one
particular vegetable that kinds love. I don\'t see you

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targeting other starchy vegetables.
Who are you to tell me what I can and

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cannot feed my child? I\'m his parent
not you. I\'m the one that was in

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labor for 26 hours, not you. I was the
one that had to suffer through five

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epidural sticks, not you. I was
the one God gave this child to

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for me to raise not you. How dare
you tell me how to feed my child?

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I really think you people have way too much
time on your hands as well as being a dictator.

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I\'m so angry over this policy. It is totally
ridiculous that you people have wasted our money

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and your time formulating such an idiotic
policy. I\'m embarrassed that the state of Texas

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would implement something so stupid. Did I
wake up in a communist country this morning?

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The regular person out here in the real world is getting fed up
with all this government intrusion into our private business.

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The American Revolution had the Boston Tea
Party. We just might have the French Fry Party.

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We want fries, we want fries.
We want fries.

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We want fries. We want fries.
I\'m Jessica Storey.

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I\'m Les Merritt. I\'m Dillon Williams.
We are the French Fry committee.

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We started this little campaign
because we really love fries

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and we have been getting them most lunches
each week. And so we just didn\'t like the fact

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that they were going to start
limiting how much we eat fries.

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This is the article that we
read and so that\'s kind of

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what made us mad and we started…
and we began to protest

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basically every single person that we went
up to wanted them to decide, we told them

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the whole reason why we\'re doing this, what the
Texas Department of Agriculture is doing and why

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they were doing it, ind even they thought it
was a bad idea. I mean this is a democracy.

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Vote for the fries please because
the fries are your brain food,

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they are your soul food, I mean they are good for soul, sure they\'re not
good for your body, but they are good for your soul. So please sign

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this if you want your fries
otherwise by next year of 2004-2005

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school year French fries will be gone.
We are preteens almost grownups

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and if we don\'t fight this then they might take
away some other good foods, like maybe pizza

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or cheeseburgers, just some
other \"non-healthy foods.\"

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I just think it\'s none of their business what we eat, you know,
fries. Pretty soon we\'re going to be a communist country over here.

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I\'ve had people say oh you must be a communist
if you think the government should be involved

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in food choice. The government is
involved in food choice right now,

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it\'s involved in food choice in so many
different ways I could not possibly

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list them all. It\'s involved in the
way it regulates advertising, it\'s

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involved in the way it allows businesses to
deduct advertising as a business expense.

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It\'s involved in subsidizing corn
and soya beans. It\'s involved in

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… in the way it allows companies to
put health claims on food package.

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I mean I could go on and on and on about
the ways in which the government promotes

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a society that is sedentary and doesn\'t eat well,
those could be changed. This is inevitable,

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those policies could be changed to favor the other
way if there was a political will to do it.

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Author, Senate Bill 474 Yes, I… I
spoke to Coca-Cola USA. Some of these

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executives live in certain districts.
They don\'t live in my district,

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but they live in other districts around the
state, either Dallas, Houston and they are

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quite influential whether it\'s state
senators and legislators quite frankly and

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that\'s one of the… one of
the big roadblocks for me.

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In 1979, undaunted by PepsiCo\'s
letter writing campaign, the

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USDA tries again to limit junk foods in
schools. The National Soft Drink Association

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sues to overturn the regulations.

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Sales, they\'ve got to go up, expenses, they\'ve
got to go down. And I mean right now.

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And don\'t forget it.

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Yeah, but what do you want me to do?

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You guys know what to do? Use your heads.

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Marketing has changed the
food environment enormously,

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kids are effective marketing targets
because they don\'t do critical thinking.

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They don\'t really understand the
difference between marketing and

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program content or between advertising and games,
all of that is just a blur. They can\'t make

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those kinds of distinctions until, they are
10 or 12 years old and even then only with

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training. They are young and
impressionable. They will take a

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brand and develop a loyalty to that
brand and marketers want them to

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have that brand loyalty for life. And they
can be trained to pester their parents

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for the products. Most of the advertising that\'s
directed towards children is directed towards

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undermining parental authority. You have to
look at the ads very carefully to see that.

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But they are aimed at making kids think
their parents are stupid, ineffectual,

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not hip and not cool.
And the kids by asking

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for these things try to associate their own
independent ideas about what they should be

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eating with being hip and cool. That\'s very
clever marketing and it\'s every effective.

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[sil.]

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As a result of the
prohibition, Representative

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Dunnam from Waco then introduced
a bill and subsequently

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issued a memo to the legislature to do
away with that prohibition, as it applied

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to mom and dad or grandma or grandpa?
Oh Mr. Dunnam you have

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been here quite a long time as you know some times
when members pass resolutions they refer to a

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particular thing by sort of
getting nicknames so if we vote

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for this can we all call you a cupcake?
As long as I can call you sugar plum.

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I was taken aback with the Lawrence Field,

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because I know about the amber
alert and I know about the other

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pieces of legislation
out there to help kids.

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I\'ve never heard of one
bill for… so one little

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kid could have cup cakes at her birthday
party. Members, a record vote\'s

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been requested, a record vote\'s granted.
Clerk, ring the bell, show the

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chair voting aye.

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[sil.]

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Have all voted?

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Have all voted? It\'s been a 148 ayes

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0 nays the cup cake amendment is adopted.

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[sil.]

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In 1983, a U.S. appeals court rules in favor
of the National Soft Drink Association,

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and states that the USDA can only prohibit
the sale of junk foods inside the

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cafeteria during mealtimes and must allow
sales at all other times and places.

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Mrs. Brown learns how to plan meals

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from reading and from television and
the radio. There is a great deal to

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learn, but these seven groups of foods are
the important ones for you to learn and

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to remember. These are the foundation
foods that go together to build

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strong bodies.

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It\'s the grains and then it\'s

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um… which you want to have the most of. Milk. And then… then…
And the vegetables and fruits. …vegetables you want to

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have um… little bit less of um… fruits…
And fruits. …you want a bit less of, and

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then milk and poultry you have… you have
like basically the same amount and then

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um… fats and sweets and stuff like that

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you… you don\'t want to have. And
it\'s like five to seven grains. No.

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Uh… nine to ten a day. Nine to ten?
Wow it\'s a lot.

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It\'s only, I thought it was maybe it\'s seven to ten. Whatever
I think we had to memorize it for like P.E., remember?

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Yeah I didn\'t… I didn\'t study this.
This is not,

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I don\'t think it is, it\'s
probably like, all the sections

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that\'s all. This is not

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, yeah. I don\'t know, but I have another

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one here, so… Plus another burger,

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here\'s another fry. Another
burger, another fry.

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So, as you can see, I will
be obese, it\'s so bad.

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Oh! man. Mark,

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they want to know what my mom cooks. Oh I know. Oh I see,
all this… all this times like four. If we see things

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happening that are not good for kids we need to
help educate the parents or let the parents know

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that there is an issue with that. Uh… because they
may not see that, I know as a school administrator

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uh… if I hadn\'t been in this position
I would have not known what I need to

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look for that my kids might be doing that
could have created a problem for them. And,

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um… a lot of times parents are busy and both
parents are working maybe reckon more than one

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job and maybe they don\'t really focus on some
critical issues that need to be happening with

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them in their family and how to guide and
direct their kids. It isn\'t enough to say

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go eat your fruits and vegetables if fruits and
vegetables aren\'t available, don\'t taste good and

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cost a lot. So you need to change the environment
to make it easier for people to eat more

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healthfully and more difficult for
them to eat less healthfully. And that

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requires looking at the societal changes that
have taken place over the last 20 years and

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saying, these happened because we weren\'t
noticing, uh… because we weren\'t

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paying attention, they don\'t have to be this way and
we\'re going to see what we can do to reverse some of

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those changes and it\'s going to take a lot
more than just changing schools, or just

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changing advertising practices to do it
because it took more than just those

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changes to get us to where we are now. So
there\'s a lot of work to do in trying to decide

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what kind of a society we\'re living
in and my own feeling is, if

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we had better food and it was easier for people
to eat healthfully we would have a better

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society. Texas Commissioner of Agriculture
In the state of Texas last year we spent

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10 billion dollars in direct
and indirect cost for

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adults who are overweight and obese and
the health problems associated with

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that, and the data that doctor
Sanchez has is that in 2040, that

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number in today\'s dollars will be 40
billion, that\'s today\'s dollars not adjusted

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for inflation. Secondly the
percentage of obesity will go up a

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174%, 75% of Texas in 2040 will be overweight
or obese. The percentage of Hispanics with

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type 2 diabetes would be up 630%.

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[sil.]

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You\'re 186 pounds, can you remember?

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Hmm… hmm. Okay.

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Um… relieved that it\'s over.

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To me it means a lot because uh… uh…
what I really to want to do now is try

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to lose some weight. Why did
you decide to give up soda?

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Um… I just started um… this was way too much
I had to get rid of some kind of junk food,

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because I don\'t know if I was just
getting and more unhealthy and so I

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just decided to quit junk um… soda,
now I\'m trying to give up like

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candy. Well I think you have more of a
chance of getting a good job if you eat

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healthy. You know when we first started
to go to this minimum nutritional value

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food I kind of thought well, you know, it\'s going to be difficult,
the kids are really going to rebel and they\'re going to not

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want to buy any and they\'re going to be doing all
kinds of silly things, but really they\'ve taken it in

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stride and… and… and they… they\'re not complaining
and uh… there\'s they\'re happy with it. Um…

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I think most of them are a large percentage of them have
realized that it is good for them. I\'m proud of the

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people in… in this PTA we got it and
we got it real quick. Nobody mentioned

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cup cakes again, we have not sold one
cup cake, nobody needed to tell us and

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yes, our money is taken in guard of. Well
I think we\'re dealing with a societal

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problem in which the… the population
has decided they don\'t want to fund

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public schools. They don\'t think that public
schools are worth funding, um… you know,

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which is amazing to me because, the
cornerstone of the democratic society

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is an educated population, and the way
you get an educated population is

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by educating them. Yes it\'s
all in knowing how and

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as Bob helped Alice assemble the chart
he saw how easy and pleasant it is to

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eat intelligently. And you mean if I eat
all of that I… I won\'t get out of shape?

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Well not if you don\'t overdo it, eating the right
food doesn\'t make anybody fat, and it won\'t

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cheat us of our snacks, either.
Look at me, look at Tom Andrews.

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I\'d rather look at you.

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Where we stand now there\'s some…

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some question involved, because I actually…
Representative Dunnam\'s amendment prohibited

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just about everybody except
Commissioner Combs from adopting rules

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to limit the availability of junk food.
The bill does not

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prohibit the Department of
Agriculture from adopting rules,

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limiting the availability of junk foods. Why
does the government need to regulate it and that

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really is sort of a big question, is this government run amok
or is this just because everything else has failed and I

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would say it\'s because everything has
failed. But we didn\'t get here overnight.

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We decided we wanted to watch
too much TV uh… and we

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for reasons that vary from district to district
decided we needed money from other sources and so

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we just sort of slowly
ceded authority away. I

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think more interestingly we
decided to market kids in schools

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and I philosophically think that\'s a terrible
thing to do. I don\'t think we should be

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commercializing what we do in the school
environment. What happened was we got so

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sick so overweight we finally
said, pull back, well state after

00:29:10.000 --> 00:29:14.999
state has filed legislation and failed
to get it passed. You guys know

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who Susan Combs is? No. She
is the uh… Texas Agriculture

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Commissioner, um… so she\'s kind of like
a politician and last year she decided

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that um… because we have such obesity and
health problems in the State of Texas

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that she was going to start limiting the amount of junk food
and so there\'s some things that you can\'t have in school,

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especially in the cafeteria like,
fried foods and things like that.

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Um… well how do you guys feel about that?
I think it\'s a good idea.

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It\'s like now that we… we
like to have healthier stuff.

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I like more… So you don\'t mind that she\'s
um… making these changes? No. Yes.

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No, I think it\'s a good thing for the
school. It\'s she like, she like did like

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the whole youth a favor. Yeah.

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In 1999, after over thirty years of
attempting to ban or limit junk foods in

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public schools, the USDA places
soda pop at the eat less tip of its

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dietary pyramid, but only for
children ages two to six.

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When we have a… a particular condition

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which drives like eight of the top chronic diseases most
specifically in Texas, diabetes. And you look at the long

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term cost of that disease
that chronic disease

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by itself, it can literally
destroy the state budget,

00:30:45.000 --> 00:30:49.999
destroy our ability to provide
among other things, public

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education. It is a tremendously
important uh… issue

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and something we got to get to work on now.