Jamie Oliver and his healthy food revolution is making its way to Canada, as the celebrity chef recently called out Canadian politicians and said they need to reevaluate our food as well as our eating habits.
Oliver has been on a multi-year campaign to try and end childhood obesity. His efforts began in the UK, where Oliver is from, and has trickled to North America.
Oliver is the successful host of a number of cooking shows, including “The Naked Chef,” and the name behind countless bestselling cookbooks. His series “Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution,” launched in 2010 and examined school cafeterias in California as well as Virginia. The movement took hold and, currently, Oliver has launched his campaign in Australia this week – in the first 24 hours he got 160,000 signatures on an online petition organized through change.org (CBC News). According to the same news outlet, recent images that came out have showed Rankin Inlet residents foraging for food in a dump, while the United Nations food envoy criticized Ottawa two years ago for not ensuring healthy food reached vulnerable populations.
Oliver was inducted into the Culinary Hall of Fame in 2013. He’s married with four children and currently lives in England.
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