what it is that's driving this obesity epidemic in the united states air to help us do that as frank melly producer of the weekly free speech t.v. program meet the farmer frank welcome thank you you know a lot of reasons for the surging obesity rate have been kicked around from wealth inequality to farm subsidies the proliferation of fast food restaurants high fructose corn syrup genetically modified foods what do you think is causing this. i think the biggest cause is the disconnect. and we need to reconnect that disconnect and i'm talking about how children you know don't know that string beans don't grow in cans. i mean. they don't have a they don't have a clue after eighty seven episodes of meet the farmer t.v. let me tell you i learned a lot and it's been such a blast wonderful thing if we could just get kids growing up to made a little little plant in their home a lot of a lot of schoolteachers are and they're doing some good stuff there's a lot of school to farm farm to school programs but the real way to reconnect our kids if you get kids help and to grow ok what is anything a vege