Jamie Oliver

0:09I don't care what anyone else says. I believe our food culture is incredibly adventurous. We're like a magpie nation. We're not too proud to look at other people and say that is really good and I'm gonna have a go there and I'm gonna make it my own. Absolutely gorgeous. The next big issue, at least in the States at the moment, the Prop 37 about genetically modified food, just labeling that there's GMOs is going to be on the ballot in a couple of weeks here. And how dare it be on the ballot? How dare it be a ballot issue? How have we come to that point? Yeah well I think there's not one solution that's going to fix the health epidemic of bad health

0:58of ECT diet related disease. Diode related disease is the biggest killer in America and Canada and England but it's just not glamorous or cool or there's no bullet holes or car chases. It's very slow and very efficient and for me what ang is me is like on the back of pack and on the front of the pack should be 100% clarity and no ball. And even I'm sure you saw the, did you chat with stuff on Pink Slime? Oh it was disgusting. So the American public, what about it? Can you explain Pink Slime actually for people who don't know? Pink Slime was named by a scientist I think that used to work for a company that used to take all the carcass and meat that used to be turned into traditionally, historically it would be turned into soap or pet food and they found a way of separating it and washing it in ammonia to kill all the

1:44pathogens and then they reminted it and put it back in the food as mince meat, well of course it's not just mince meat and or certainly I don't think it is and I don't think the public do either but the genius of the USDA government in America said well if it's less than 25% you can put it in without saying so. I think that's the problem. I think you know if you give Canadian or American or any public in the world, if you give them good clear information they'll make really good choices nine times out of ten. People are not often that stupid but when you start messing with labels and you've got a chicken standing on a hill covered with green background and clearly they're battery eggs then they've never seen a bit of natural light in their whole life. That's lying. I think clarity is massively important and that's actually the only sensible dude

2:35really pushing through stuff at the moment is Mayor Bloomberg in New York. Yeah he's a don, he's a dude and he's some I want him running my country. The reason that we all turn up is because I think sometimes we're all fatigued about how bad stuff is. I mean statistics, the measurement on environment on health on where it's going to go is quite bad consistently. It's quite hard to say what truly good national changes are happening anywhere in the country in the world. Did you talk to them at all? Is there anything they can do legislatively in the states? Well states are saying anyway yes of course there is. I'm going up the state just because of

3:22the food revolution in LA. It looked like maybe there's a glimmer of hope with the super in town but I don't know what to happen. I mean like you know John Daisy who replaced Cortinas who was not in my mind a very good superintendent, immediately put in policies and did legislate and got rid of flavour milks. That's how it happened. It looked like it was going to happen. We never know. No he did. Yeah and that's a million 1.3 million bottles of flavour milk a day and about I think it was 57 tons of sugar per week of added sugar. Yeah not going into the kids but no the idea of that summit is really to inspire the next generation and give them structure and strategies and also like what I mean you're going to do stuff that we can't even think of. So I think that's pretty

4:10inspiring for me at the moment. It's like looking I've caught some aware of where I'm at in the campaigns and stuff I'm doing. I'm looking forward but at the same time like looking at the young ones going right what are you going to do? You know it's interesting like you know when you get 100 100 180 countries in the same room they've all got iPads they're all sharing they're all on Facebook and shit you know it's like it's kind of like a clan you know a clan of super bright kids and the question is what are they going to do what are they going to do with it are they going to solve some big issues and I'm kind of hoping yeah. What I want to do is scratch under the surface of what really happens in our food and where it came from. Quick questions one word answers. Very different things but local or organic? Local. Should fast food be illegal? No.

4:58Which chef that are alive would you want to have cooked you dinner? Elizabeth David. Book or series you're most proud of? Book. Which book? Oh I'm sorry dude. School dinners and food revolution similar kind of stories really proud of that. In one word Jamie Oliver. That's tough. I know. Tasty. Tasty and delicious. Thank you so much.