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There's no innovation within the government now, which is why I hope things like the virus

can help us wake us up to a new approach.

I mean, you know, you listen to Billy Joel songs and you listen to Bruce Springsteen

songs and you listen to these songs about the play that will work or those are written

in the 70s and 80s.

This is still happening, you know, and we've not yet updated the government policies

to address these deep, deep structural problems.

And this is an opportunity, I think, for us to do that.

The innovation in the public sector has been minimal.

When you look at our food system, right, you look at healthcare costs, you look at the

sicknesses in the country, you look at the high rates of diabetes and pre-diameteries,

Alzheimer's, heart disease, high blood pressure, on and on and on.

We're sick.

We're sick.

And we now know that a lot of this is coming from the food system.

I walked into a school a year ago.

There was a rice crispy tree and a chocolate milk for breakfast.

Okay.

So this kid before even walks into the first period class, they're at like 80 or 90 grams

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