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PUBLIC TESTIMONY
Testimony by Student from Seeds in the Middle on Community Health and Access to Fresh Produce
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A student from Seeds in the Middle testifies about the importance of funding for their community farm to promote healthier eating habits and combat high rates of obesity and heart disease in her community. She emphasizes the need for access to affordable fresh fruits and vegetables through farm stands.
- Highlights the lack of affordable healthy food options and prevalence of fast food in her community
- Describes successful farm stands at her school that provided discounted fresh produce to community members
- Expresses how the experience allowed her to educate community members about nutrition and improve eating habits
Amalia
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My name is Amalia.
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I'm a student of my eleventh performance art.
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I'm asking you today to give money to the city in the middle so that we can continue to grow our farm because we don't want people of our community get diabetes and heart disease.
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In my community, there is a lot of fast food place and a very few affordable price And we are the highest of obesity and heart disease.
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Our community needs your help to give us a chance to live a healthier life.
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It's important to have access to fresh fruit and vegetable because we want people to eat healthy.
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One way for people to have access to fruit and vegetable is through a farm stand.
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At my school, my 11, we had three farm stand and people from our community came out to purchase our fresh produce at our discounted price.
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Our farm were able to interact with elderly member of our community and they were happy to have access to fresh food and vegetable.
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This experience made me feel happy because I was able to talk to my community about different variety and help them to get nutritional knowledge and improve their healing habit.
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Everyone deserves to be healthy including us.