Tell the L.A. School District: Let Jamie Oliver Help

Tell the L.A. School District: Let Jamie Oliver Help

The Issue

Celebrity chef and healthy school lunch advocate Jamie Oliver is filming his second season of the Emmy Award-winning Food Revolution in Los Angeles. However, the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) refuses to show its school lunches on the program. In Oliver's own words, he can't get his foot into a single door. Students have voiced their disapointment that their school lunches won't benefit from the exposure and will likely remain "greasy" and "microwaved."

Oliver has opened a community kitchen in the L.A. area, and he had much success last season working with schools in West Virginia, who now cook most of their lunches from scratch using healthy ingredients. Step up, L.A., and let us see what you're serving. Let Food Revolution inside school cafeterias!

Photo: Jeff Sandquist via Flickr

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Jessica BelskyPetition StarterIn addition to writing for Change.org, Jessica is the communications manager at a Southern California environmental non-profit and writes about sustainable food on her own website, <a href="http://www.chewgooder.wordpress.com" rel="nofollow">www.chewgooder.wordpress.com</a> and YourDailyThread.com.

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The Issue

Celebrity chef and healthy school lunch advocate Jamie Oliver is filming his second season of the Emmy Award-winning Food Revolution in Los Angeles. However, the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) refuses to show its school lunches on the program. In Oliver's own words, he can't get his foot into a single door. Students have voiced their disapointment that their school lunches won't benefit from the exposure and will likely remain "greasy" and "microwaved."

Oliver has opened a community kitchen in the L.A. area, and he had much success last season working with schools in West Virginia, who now cook most of their lunches from scratch using healthy ingredients. Step up, L.A., and let us see what you're serving. Let Food Revolution inside school cafeterias!

Photo: Jeff Sandquist via Flickr

avatar of the starter
Jessica BelskyPetition StarterIn addition to writing for Change.org, Jessica is the communications manager at a Southern California environmental non-profit and writes about sustainable food on her own website, <a href="http://www.chewgooder.wordpress.com" rel="nofollow">www.chewgooder.wordpress.com</a> and YourDailyThread.com.

The Decision Makers

Marguerite Poindexter LaMotte
Marguerite Poindexter LaMotte
School Board Member/LAUSD
Yoli Flores
Yoli Flores
School Board Member/LAUSD
Nury Martinez
Nury Martinez
School Board Member/LAUSD
Richard Vladovic
Richard Vladovic
School Board Member/LAUSD
Monica Garcia
Monica Garcia
School Board Member/LAUSD

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Petition created on January 12, 2011