Filmmaker Amy Kalafa, an angry mom, teams up with Susan P. Rubin, another angry mom, to get to the bottom of the unwholesome school lunches being served to American children. Both moms had been stewing for years, seeing the American school lunch program becoming increasingly inedible. Armed with a camera, the two women track big food companies involvement in their kid’s lunch program and Amy Kalafa takes a trip across America to find some healthy solutions to the chemical-filled lunches that big food manufacturers were contracted to feed America’s kids.
With more than an estimated 35% of American children overweight, soaring rates of asthma, autism, ADHD and anxiety, there is good reason to give the food that children are eating a second look. Americans are currently spending more than $200 billion a year in diet related health care, compare that with the fact that Americans spend less than 10% of their income on food.
The industrialized food systems in evidence at many American schools has placed the onus on supplying cheap food for profit to the nation’s children. Kids are being overfed, but undernourished. One teacher explains how she needs to teach the kids important things in the morning as the students are unable to pay attention after lunch – the children are simply too hyperactive. The filmmakers advocate not for controlling kids, but to control the marketing influences that are saturating American schools.
Two Angry Moms shows concrete examples of how it is possible to create delicious meals for school lunches without all the sugar and chemical component – from curriculums that include school gardening to healthy cafeteria eating options to farmer’s markets held on the school grounds. Two Angry Moms is a rallying cry for parents to take a closer look at what their kids are eating in school. The film is a combination of an exposé into the school lunches served across America and also a manifesto on how to change the system. Two Angry Moms doesn’t disappoint. A must see for any parent who has a child eating or snacking in the school cafeteria. Actually, a must see for any parent, aunt, uncle, or grandparent.
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