Podcast | Children's Health Crisis: Fixing the Broken School Food System with Nora LaTorre & Jesse Gabriel

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With public schools serving as America’s largest restaurant chain, the push for school food reform has never been more urgent. In this episode, Jeff is joined by Nora LaTorre (CEO of Eat Real) and California Assembly Member Jesse Gabriel to discuss groundbreaking legislative efforts in California to ban harmful chemicals and synthetic dyes from student meals.

This episode includes:

• How California's AB 1264 phases out ultra-processed foods.
• The alarming link between childhood diets and adult-onset diseases.
• Why the "GRAS loophole" allows dangerous food additives into American snacks.
• How local farm-to-school programs can save school districts money.
• Bipartisan strategies for improving children's health nationwide.

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About the Commune Podcast

Hosted by Jeff Krasno, the Commune podcast features thoughtful conversations for modern times. Not always comfortable but definitely needed, we explore both humanity and our human-ness. How can we live healthy, purpose-filled lives and be in service of something bigger? Guests include spiritual teachers, poets, scientists, philosophers, and activists for food sustainability, functional medicine, mental and physical health, and collective healing.