Documentary Critique: Food Stamped

The documentary Food Stamped focused on whether someone on food stamps could be on a healthy diet. Shira and Yoav took the food stamp challenge for a month. The couple received $50.00 a week and tired to eat a balanced diet. Shira followed someone with type II diabetes and analyzed the food bought. He ended up buying food with preservatives and genetically engineered hormones. It wasn't he's fault that he bought what he had bought because he was just trying to buy his weekly groceries with his budget. The next interviewee was a school administrator (person in charge of the food for the community schools). She told the interviewer that she liked to adapt to the popular food but chose to make it healthier. One thing they bought was the reduced sugar cereal. After they finished interviewing the administrator they interviewed a student and he said that he had never seen a vegetable in the school lunch. The other school that Shira went to visit cooperated with Cooking with Students which actually went into the classroom and made food with the students. The students were more willing to try the food that they had made rather than just putting the food in front of them and  telling them to eat it. Personally, I liked how the second school handled the food situation and letting the students make the food that they eat rather than accommodating it. Then they went to a food bank and talked with the food administrator and he informed them that they are trying to get more green food (vegetables and fruits) so when they give away the food it's healthier food. At the end of the day the couple went to the dietitian and found out that they were eating correctly according to the food pyramid but weren't in taking enough daily calories.

This is a brief brief summary of the documentary since I did forget to mention the 2% decrease in junk food and the 20% increase in healthier foods due to the Farm Bill.

The documentary is environmental education since it deals with the food we are eating. Not only that but how the price of the food and how that's risen over the last few years. Environmental education touches on all of these topics by helping create better ways to reduce the prices of the healthier foods so people on foods stamps are able to afford it. Also, we need to educate the people about what we buy.