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PUBLIC TESTIMONY
Testimony by Student from Seeds in the Middle
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120 sec
A student from Seeds in the Middle testifies about the need for more funding to improve access to fresh fruits and vegetables in their neighborhood. They emphasize the importance of Seeds in the Middle's work in educating children about healthy eating and providing fresh produce.
- She highlights the lack of fresh produce in local stores and the high prices of available fruits and vegetables.
- She describe how Seeds in the Middle educates students about the health risks associated with poor nutrition, such as diabetes and heart disease.
- Requests additional funding for Seeds in the Middle to build farmers markets for schools and improve access to fresh produce in corner stores and supermarkets.
Nature Watkins
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Good morning everyone.
0:19:41
My name is Nature Watkins.
0:19:44
I thank you for all for giving me this chance and I ask that you can give Seeds in the Middle more money so they can help our neighborhood because even at school around even at stores around my neighborhood, they will only have bananas for two days and they already turned spoiled.
0:20:04
And there's not a lot of fruits and vegetables and even the ones that are there, they're so expensive so it's really hard to buy them and the prices are really high.
0:20:17
I ask that you give seeds in the middle more money because seeds in the middle helps that.
0:20:22
When seeds in the middle comes to schools and explains to kids why is it why it's healthy to eat fruits and vegetables, They even bring fresh snacks and fruits and vegetables that are really delicious and a lot of the fruits they do really taste fresh.
0:20:39
And and when I when Seated in the Middle first came and they first told us about eating healthy, they told us about diseases that you can catch that you would get if you don't eat healthy like heart disease and diabetes.
0:20:54
They also told us that there's no cure to diabetes.
0:20:57
So if you get it, you can't get rid of it.
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So that's why we asked if you could give Seeds in the Middle more money.
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So Seeds in the Middle can build farmer markets for schools and other places so we can have fresh fruits and vegetables at corner stores and supermarkets because then we would have a less risk of getting diseases like diabetes and heart disease and people could be more healthy.
0:21:25
And we also ask that you can give seeds in the middle much more money because they can continue to come to our school to come to our schools and help the kids and they can even build my school a farmers market.
0:21:39
Thank you.