What's wrong with our food system?
Author: Birke Baehr
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This connects to me because when i read a book that said “what we eat can affect our bodies and our lifestyle.”
I know right!!
Hello. My name is Birke Baehr, and I'm 11 years old. I came here today to talk about what's wrong with our food system. First of all, I would like to say that I'm really amazed at how easily kids are led to believeall the marketing and advertising on TV, at public schools and pretty much everywhere else you look. It seems to me like corporations are always trying to get kids, like me, to get their parents to buy stuff that really isn't good for us or the planet. Little kids, especially, are attracted by colorful packaging and plastic toys. I must admit, I used to be one of them. I also used to think that all of our food came from these happy, little farms where pigs rolled in mud and cows grazed on grass all day.
What is he trying to say? Is it that the fake Frosted Flakes are fake and that the organic ones are real?
why is farmers using chemicals in our food?
how is some food not good got for you
why is farmers using chemicals in our food
HOW IS THE FOOD NOT GOOD FOR YOU AND THE PLANET
WHY DOES THE CORPORATIONS MARKET TO KIDS
He is talking about the food we eat in our stomach everyday and how is not good food our healths.
What is wrong with our food system?
what is wrong with the food system
00:54
What I discovered was this is not true. I began to look into this stuff on the Internet, in books and in documentary films, in my travels with my family. I discovered the dark side of the industrialized food system. First, there's genetically engineered seeds and organisms. That is when a seed is manipulated in a laboratory to do something not intended by nature -- like taking the DNA of a fish and putting it into the DNA of a tomato. Yuck. Don't get me wrong, I like fish and tomatoes, but this is just creepy. (Laughter)The seeds are then planted, then grown. The food they produce have been proven to cause cancer and other problems in lab animals, and people have been eating food produced this way since the 1990s.And most folks don't even know they exist. Did you know rats that ate genetically engineered corn had developed signs of liver and kidney toxicity? These include kidney inflammation and lesions and increased kidney weight. Yet almost all the corn we eat has been altered genetically in some way. And let me tell you, corn is in everything. And don't even get me started on the Confined Animal Feeding Operations called CAFOS.
what is the dark side of the industrialized
Why would he want to know the truth even though it might not be so good?
what does he mean by"dark side of the industrialized food sysyems"?
why are they mixing different foods dna?
Are they to lazy to actually grow a tomato so they just genetically make them?
why dont they want us to eat meat
Why dont parents give their kids better foood
Why have people been eating like this from the 1990s?
why would they give people the food knowing that it give people cancer?
what is kidney toxicity?
Why aren’t people fixing this problem?
why would they serve people genetically made corn if they know its bad for people and their liver.
02:01
(Laughter)02:03
Conventional farmers use chemical fertilizers made from fossil fuels that they mix with the dirt to make plants grow. They do this because they've stripped the soil from all nutrients from growing the same crop over and over again. Next, more harmful chemicals are sprayed on fruits and vegetables, like pesticides and herbicides, to kill weeds and bugs. When it rains, these chemicals seep into the ground, or run off into our waterways, poisoning our water too. Then they irradiate our food, trying to make it last longer, so it can travel thousands of miles from where it's grown to the supermarkets.
why does he want to be a farmer now?
Where are the farmers now?
What is a Conventional farmer?
Why does farmer use chemical fertilizers instead of making a fertilizer with food that we eat ?
what type of chemical ?
02:37
So I ask myself, how can I change? How can I change these things? This is what I found out. I discovered that there's a movement for a better way. Now a while back, I wanted to be an NFL football player. I decided that I'd rather be an organic farmer instead. (Applause) Thank you. And that way I can have a greater impact on the world. This man, Joel Salatin, they call him a lunatic farmer because he grows against the system. Since I'm home-schooled, I went to go hear him speak one day. This man, this "lunatic farmer," doesn't use any pesticides, herbicides, or genetically modified seeds. And so for that, he's called crazy by the system.
How will that make a differences?
what made you change your mind about being a nfl player why do you want to be a farmer?
how do we know if the farmers are telling the truth about how they grow there food
03:26
I want you to know that we can all make a difference by making different choices, by buying our food directly from local farmers, or our neighbors who we know in real life. Some people say organic or local food is more expensive, but is it really? With all these things I've been learning about the food system, it seems to me that we can either pay the farmer, or we can pay the hospital. (Applause) Now I know definitely which one I would choose. I want you to know that there are farms out there -- like Bill Keener in Sequatchie Cove Farm in Tennessee -- whose cows do eat grass and whose pigs do roll in the mud, just like I thought. Sometimes I go to Bill's farm and volunteer, so I can see up close and personal where the meat I eat comes from. I want you to know that I believe kids will eat fresh vegetables and good foodif they know more about it and where it really comes from. I want you to know that there are farmers' markets in every community popping up. I want you to know that me, my brother and sister actually like eating baked kale chips. I try to share this everywhere I go.
I think that everything is not so terrible with our food, although of course the industrial scale does not allow food to be completely natural. however, I read an article on Wikipedia about genetically modified food and in fact it turns out that we were simply intimidated by this term, although modifications can even be useful. They can impart medicinal properties to food by causing one gene to work and others to turn off. I even saw somewhere that, thanks to genetic modification, people taught some type of mushroom to eat plastic, which would otherwise take hundreds of years to decompose.
WHO IS HE TRYING TO MAKE A DIFFERCE
How can food directly from local farmers make a diffrence
where does the bot in the video buy his food from now
why would you do that they could have poisoned the food this is not safe for anybody?
Does he eat local food?
Why is organic food expensive now?
Who should I pay?
Where do they work?
how would we know if we dont know what food is good so we dont have to pay the hospital?
04:29
Not too long ago, my uncle said that he offered my six-year-old cousin cereal. He asked him if he wanted organic Toasted O's or the sugarcoated flakes -- you know, the one with the big striped cartoon character on the front. My little cousin told his dad that he would rather have the organic Toasted O's cerealbecause Birke said he shouldn't eat sparkly cereal. And that, my friends, is how we can make a differenceone kid at a time.
DO HE THINK THE FROSTED FLAKES IS REAL
HES TRYING TO SAY THAT FAKE FOOOD
IS THE REAL FOOD
Is the Frosted Flakes that have the tiger on it fake, and the one without the tiger real?
how can we tell that corn is everywhere?
04:54
So next time you're at the grocery store, think local, choose organic, know your farmer and know your food. Thank you.05:01
(Applause)
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