Food Network chef Jamie Oliver is in the news lately as he urged Canadians to lobby with Justin Trudeau, the prime minister-designate of Canada, not to turn a blind eye on junk food and proper labeling of products.
He said that it's an exciting time for Canada as they can wipe the slate clean and start over.
"You're in a really exciting time because you've got a new prime minister and that means hope and possibility," Chef Jamie Oliver said in the Toronto Sun news report. "But no one's talking about what the strategy is for child health in this country."
"I think that's a bit worrying.... Should all kids in Canada learn how to grow and cook at school? Because they should. And to not is wrong, and to not is damaging to the economy in the future," he added.
The prime minister-designate Justin Trudeau plans to focus on providing jobs and to lower taxes for the middle class. While the Liberal government will also concentrate on the refugee crisis, buttressing the anti-terror law, as well as on the issue of doctor-assisted suicice.
But Chef Jamie Oliver's proposal would be a welcome news for Justin Trudeau as the prime minister-designate has a heart for the young.
In the Liberal government's website, he said, "The more I spoke with young people all over the country, the more I began to gravitate toward a life of advocacy. It was becoming increasingly clear to me that the issues young Canadians cared about - education, the environment, their generation's economic prospects - needed a stronger voice in the public sphere."
Jamie Oliver said that mothers and fathers in Canada need to lobby for child nutrition because it's a huge problem that's routinely being developed.
The Food Network chef cited the recent news when World Health Organization issued an advisory against processed meat and its carcinogenic effects.
"The message from the World Health Organization is 'Wind it back, guys. You're eating too much of it,'" Oliver said. "Bit of bacon for breakfast, bit of ham in a sandwich for lunch, and a nugget or a burger for dinner. We repeat that and it causes disease and that's what they're saying."
