Styles P Hosting Plant-Based BBQ To Expand NYC Tastebuds, End Food Deserts
Styles P says there's a war going on outside no New Yorker is safe from -- falling prey to bad eating habits that could ultimately kill them!!
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00:00I say the typical New York diet, if you live in a neighborhood that has poverty in it,
00:07is totally effed up, totally messed up.
00:11That's why they call them food deserts.
00:13It's not enough information on healthy foods, not enough information of what the benefits
00:18of fruit and veggies do to you.
00:20New York is the fastest city in the world.
00:23There's nothing faster than a New York minute.
00:25So people adapt to eating wrong.
00:30Once you're out of your mom's house, you want to hustle, you want to move, you want to work.
00:35Not everybody, but a lot of people don't look at the inside of their body and take the importance
00:40of it, as well as the outside of their body.
00:43So to be honest with you, it's a war.
00:45It's a war on poor neighborhoods, because if you ever get a chance to move into a more
00:50affluent neighborhood, you see the differences in the stores.
00:53You see a difference in the grocery stores.
00:55You see the difference in that there's not a liquor store in every corner.
00:59Like you're in an affluent neighborhood, there's one liquor store, maybe two liquor stores
01:03throughout the whole thing.
01:06It's only one or two fast food places.
01:08But when you're in a hood, all fast food, all liquor stores.
01:12So the New York diet, especially in a neighborhood that is affected by poverty, is horrible.
01:18Do you ever think about how much the school is paying for each child to eat?
01:24It's under a couple bucks.
01:26So how good is the food, really?
01:28And that's pretty much in all neighborhoods, but especially in neighborhoods of poverty,
01:33especially in New York.
01:34That's what Farmacares is about.
01:36That's what we stand for.
01:38And that's our motion, and that's what we're trying to bring to the table, is just balance.
01:45So I got to ask, you know, also as a native New Yorker, what's your take on this salmon
01:50chopped cheese?
01:51You know, Keith Lee came to your city and, you know, made it go viral.
01:56I'm not I'm not going I'm not going to speak on it because I'm plant based.
01:59That'll tell you my idea about it right there.
02:03Here's what I say.
02:04You have to know what the food you eat and does to you.
02:07I didn't make this up.
02:10Meat and dairy causes mucus, mucus causes cancer, so I'm not telling you don't eat a
02:18chopped cheese. I'm telling you, watch where you eat a chopped cheese.
02:22Watch when you eat a chopped cheese and don't eat too much chopped cheese.
02:27For the festival, you also got Large Professor, you know, in the mix, you know, doing the
02:33music. Large Professor is one of the best producers, one of the best rappers, one of
02:38the most organic, authentic hip hop people that ever lived.
02:41He's the one who introduced Nas with Live at the Barbecue.
02:45He's the one who made Looking at the Front Door a relationship song way, way back in
02:50the day. So Large Professor is just what I would call a pillar in the hip hop community
02:55and just a very down to earth human being, very dope producer, very dope DJ, very dope
03:01emcee and a very dope person to know.
03:03So we do love to infuse hip hop in our events.
03:07And so we glad that we got him able to come out and rock with us.
03:12Yeah, got him live at the vegan barbecue.
03:15Live at the vegan barbecue, baby.