Schools are the largest restaurant chain in America. They're bigger than Subway, Starbucks, and McDonald's combined.

They serve 7 billion meals a year to 30 million kids. The statistics around children and metabolic dysfunction, they're just jaw-dropping.

We believe that schools are the most powerful way to get real nutrition and feed kids real health.

Our children right now in America are at risk of potentially having shorter lives than their parents.

We were having conversations in the legislature on some of the work we were doing.

One of my colleagues were saying adult diseases in medical school are now manifesting themselves in children. Jesse Gabriel, California Assembly member and author of the

Real Food Healthy Kids Act, Nora LaTore, CEO of Eat Real, a national movement to transform school food.

Together, they're leading the fight to remove ultra-processed food from your

kids' lunch trays. It's not just that some of these foods are unsafe, it's that they are

industrially manufactured to be addictive. It kind of blew my mind to discover the extent to which

chemicals and additives, which are banned, not just in the European Union and in other countries

that are somehow allowed in our food here in the United States.

So by essentially prohibiting certain chemical additives, you're putting downstream pressure

on the supply chain.

When kids are being served food in schools, the parents aren't getting a choice.

It's up to the state.

We are essentially stepping into the role of the guardian, and we have a responsibility to the

children. I do think this is an all hands-on-deck moment. You can either score partisan points,

or you can solve a problem. We'd rather solve the problem. Okay, Nora, Jesse, thanks for being here.

Thank you for having me. Thank you so much. Yeah. So I want to start with a startling realization that I

learned from you, Nora, that schools represent the biggest restaurant chain in the United States.

Never really heard it frame that way. What does that statement actually mean for the health of our children?

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