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Jamie Oliver Fights L.A. School District with a Bus Full of "Sugar" | Sustainable Food | Change.org

Jamie Oliver Fights L.A. School District with a Bus Full of "Sugar" | Sustainable Food | Change.org

Jamie Oliver Fights L.A. School District with a Bus Full of "Sugar"

Jamie Oliver is certainly not giving up on L.A.

After being completely blocked from entering any Los Angeles Unified School District(LAUSD) cafeterias to cover school lunch reform on his second season of Food Revolution, Oliver tried to get more momentum behind his cause with a stunt earlier this week involving a school bus. Oliver and his crew dumped 57 tons of white sand into a retired, parked school bus to represent the amount of sugar LAUSD students consume in one week from the sweetened, flavored milk that comes with their school lunches. According to LAWeekly, Oliver said that up to 80 percent of the milk in LAUSD lunches is flavored, and the amount of sugar in these flavored milks rivals that