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Ever had a song stuck in your head before? Well if it’s Minneapolis youth’s “Grow Food” song, it may just help you think more about healthy food.
Rapping to encourage people to grow healthy food, teens from Minneapolis with the non-profit Appetite For Change (AFC), have made veggies like broccoli into latest and greatest rap song of 2016, according to Vibe.
After working in the summer of 2016 with AFC’s Youth Employment & Training Program that also worked with Beats & Rhymes, youth in Northern Minneapolis were inspired to create the “Grow Food” song, which has garnered over 136,138 likes and counting.
The catchy song that raps phrases like “pullin’ veggies out the garden” and “drinking water living longer, no processed drama”, inspires youth to change their unhealthy food environments by growing food and drinking water.
All the kids in the video are a part of AFC and one of the youngest rappers in the video, who goes by Lu Money writes that she actually can grow her own food and hopes to change the message of what young people are listening and living through, as written in her comments on the viral video youtube page.
Minority youth are not only targeted more than their peers by unhealthy food and drink companies research shows but they often also have less lack access to healthy food options. However, teens are standing up for more healthy food and drinks for their neighborhoods and schools, using their own creative ways like poems, videos and rap songs to discounter unhealthy marketing.
In fact, minority youth in San Francisco, California stepped up to big soda with a counter-advertising campaign that addressed marketing tactics aimed at youth of color and College Students from San Francisco State also helped kick big soda off their campuses as well.
Youth can be powerful leaders in their choices to stand up for what is healthy and beneficial for themselves and their schools and neighborhoods.
To help take a stand for better foods in neighborhoods and schools and help all kids and youth grow up to be a healthy weight, join our Salud/Health leaders map today!
By The Numbers
1
Supermarket
for every Latino neighborhood, compared to 3 for every non-Latino neighborhood
