What does "good food" mean, and how do we make it affordable? | Mark Bittman | TEDxBoston

What does "good food" mean, exactly, and how do we produce and make it available and affordable? Mark Bittman provides some answers. Mark Bittman is the author of 30 books, including the How to Cook Everything series and the #1 New York Times bestseller VB6: Eat Vegan Before 6:00 to Lose Weight and Restore Your Health . . . for Good. He was a food journalist and columnist, opinion columnist, and the lead magazine food writer at the New York Times, where he started writing in 1984 and stayed for 30 years.
Bittman has starred in four television series, including Showtime’s Emmy-winning Years of Living Dangerously. He is a longtime TODAY regular and has made hundreds of television, radio, and podcast appearances, including on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, RealTime with Bill Maher, and CBS’s The Dish; plus NPR’s All Things Considered, Fresh Air, and Morning Edition.
Bittman has written for countless publications and spoken at dozens of universities and conferences; his 2007 TED talk, “What’s wrong with what we eat,” has almost five million views. He was distinguished fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, and a fellow at the Union of Concerned Scientists. He has received six James Beard Awards and an IACP Award.
Bittman is currently Special Advisor on Food Policy at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, where he teaches and hosts a lecture series called Food, Public Health, and Social Justice. He is also the editor-in-chief of Heated, and is working on a book and television series titled Animal Vegetable Junk. His latest book, with David Katz, MD, is How to Eat. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx

[@LifeAndStories89]

I have been watching TEDx Talks at the early in 2020, when the virus hit US 🇺🇸, I was stuck at home, bored every single day, and surprisingly I fell on that channel I can’t explain how this one has helped me. That’s one of the elements that I’m grateful for today. Happy thanksgiving to you all🍁🦃. Don’t forget to eat healthy and stay healthy. Be blessed 💦

[@pegaso4ever]

Thanks for being clear and the message ! Food is a serious thing 👍🏻

[@mynameischris6177]

I just want to appreciate, how well all of those talks just help me, to learn something that is really important. And wanna thank you for all of this!

[@shoshana7412]

I have loved Mark Bittman from the first day I met him on the cooking channel many years ago. I miss his shows. I learned many cooking things from him but I never forget his tip on how to cook brown rice the easy best way.

[@SchwSchw]

He has a great podcast! It’s called Food with Mark Bittman.

[@dandeliongreens4664]

This was so clearly laid-out. Ok, it was preaching to the choir for me but so clear that I have more clarity and more clarity in the direction I need to take.

[@saadiasabouri89]

Food is an important thing we have to care about it in our life. Thank you Tedtalks

[@latifechanani4350]

Great speech. Hope authorities will listen and bring fundamental change in productions and distribution of food and stop marketing companies from advertising excessive food consumption

[@happinessyogateacher]

Best call to action, he speaks the words I want to say.. Hearing him gives me hope. He is the call to action the world needs to save itself, most important message on earth.Please share…..

[@camillac.s.279]

Every item I shop at the grocery I "visualize" how it can affect my body and mind , like all the components , fats, carbs , protein .. .. .. the body will USE those bricks to build us up !! "We are made from what we eat ."

[@blair5475]

I must be made of bacon cheeseburgers, extra stuffed with mayo and bbq sauce, and fries on the side. With a bit of caramel flapjack pancakes for dessert, then vanilla ice-cream to wash it all down.

[@CaptainStottlemeier]

A carrot doesn't taste like a carrot in the US. It doesn't matter if it's organic or not it simply has no flavor. It is possible we are not getting nutrients either. Fish is like rubber. Why is food so bad here?

[@livefromtheground7274]

Because its fake.

[@TaffmanGuyo]

I thought that the only bad food was poisoned or contaminated, it's all about balance & keeping that microbiome healthy - mainly plant based.

[@blair5475]

good food must include cheese and lots of corn syrup

[@happinessyogateacher]

Sugar is killing us and poisoning our world

[@innerlocus]

Well-managed grazing and grass-fed operations are better for the environment. They use fewer energy-intensive inputs and, by regularly moving animals to fresh pasture and keeping them away from streambeds, they spread the manure more evenly and improve the quality and quantity of forage growth.

[@LifeAndStories89]

1.2k views in 9 minutes is incredible. The contents are interesting.

[@jamesbondlegal2g564]

GIVE ME A BREAK WOULD YOU

[@markfactor1997]

I agree with this whole heartedly.

[@touchinfo5830]

It is a very wonderful talk👌👍👍🔥🔥💥💥💯💯✔✔

[@futtermanfarms6791]

Nutrient dense food? YES!! Fix the farm subsidy program? YES!! Better conditions for farm workers? YES!! But.. artificially raising the minimum wage does NOT work. It only fuels an equivalent round of inflation and that hurts fixed income people like elderly on social security or those on public assistance. In the end, raising minimum wage just lands people back on the same minimum wage level with an inflated dollar. You can help farm workers improve their own pay with productivity incentives, bonuses or sharing the profit in the food produced. Work environment, however, will likely take some intervention from the government. Rather than redefine profit, why not make payment for food based on the quality/nutrient density of the food? Pay for the actual nutrient value not the pounds or tons produced. Pay for a pound of nutrients, not a pound of stuff. BTW, in all fairness, some big producers are already refocusing their farms to quality, but a LOT more needs to be done. Can we change the reward system to directly reward what we want instead of trying to manipulate it with farm subsidies? Yes, I believe we can through regenerative agriculture and education. Yes I believe we can if we give consumers a way to choose and buy the better food. If an apple that has 2x the food nutrition but only costs 20 percent more, the better apple is a much better bargain. We just need a way for the consumer to know that it is better so they can make the choice. and YES We need to rethink our food.

[@bobadams7654]

Excellent message. Loved the alien analogy.

[@DestinyDiamond]

I'm glad I watched this

[@eagleclaw2052]

Pay For Good and Health Food instead to pay medicine and Doctor,

[@fernandogonzalez8712]

This guy is a character

[@devonm6187]

Yes he's a great guy that just wants to help people

[@ameerah2026]

it's amazing speech

[@Magnetis0101]

Already knew all this the BIG problem is getting Corp to negate their greedy need for profit as their set for destroying use as a whole.

[@Dutlerveili]

I wasmissing only one thing: the link to small scale food forest, community supported gardens and permaculture :)

[@Sittininthesun]

Easy. Teach people to grow their own. Seeds are cheap. Then you can trade with someone for eggs, meat, milk, etc. People survived that way for generations.

[@happinessyogateacher]

No, that’s incorrect

[@trevortammen2341]

@@happinessyogateacher your source for it being incorrect Majority of human existence species wise we have farmed, grown and traded amongst eachother for food and items..how is that factually incorrects

[@januarysson5633]

Legacy seed, not GMO. Why is GMO food illegal in Russia but not America and we’re considered the “progressive” country.

[@happinessyogateacher]

@@trevortammen2341 hunting is the best way to survive.. Large herds of animals

[@MassMultiplayer]

i prefer moral food. unessential suffering for complete essential nutriment found in non sentient being. problem solved

[@user-gk6rl4yu6i]

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[@athenathepooppooppoop8593]

"Afforable"? Lets just grow our own food, but wait we lowerclass are all in small cubicle apartments almost completely reliant on the system to feed us, since only lucky ones get a patio. Vertical gardening cant get you far enough.

[@georgiebell2315]

But its a start. Try a food wall. And put the savings in the bank to get someplace you can grow more. It took us 19 years, but we did it.

[@rajkumardhakadprincefddi8409]

Sir I am you big fan I am from India sir 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@brentshuffler1234]

A timely reminder, in the aftermath of an underwhelming C.O.P. 2021, that how we produce, handle, cook, serve, and consume food simultaneously affects our own wellness, the society, the economy, and the environment. The best choice (whole foods from plant-sources in a toxin-free bio-diversity) is actually a solution for all of these problems, and the least-cost choice both short term and long term.

[@Magnetis0101]

I'll never become a full on vegan, We need meat in our system.

[@januarysson5633]

I was waiting for him to say “Eat more bugs”. 🐛 🦗

[@januarysson5633]

@@Dimitris_Half I guess you don’t recognize humor when you see it. 🤷‍♂️ I’ll take steak over bugs any day. 🐛

[@masonbryson2822]

Mrs Claudia Walter's and her method work like magic I keep on earning every single week with her new strategy

[@IKEMENOsakaman]

Good food for the mind? Bacon and cheese....mmmmmm

[@earthlingjohn]

My favorite is grilled cheese & bacon sandwich

[@januarysson5633]

Not crickets? 🦗

[@earthlingjohn]

@@januarysson5633 Maybe with cheese & bacon 😕

[@januarysson5633]

@@earthlingjohn Lol 😝

[@happinessyogateacher]

Changing food changes EVERYTHING! Grass fed and open grazed hoofed animals can TRULY heal the world, whether we eat them or not…. Just let them graze and grow in LARGE HERDS!!!

[@Magnetis0101]

be nice but that will take y.e.a.r.s to do many people would go hungry and die. Yea it's a serious issue worth solving.

[@januarysson5633]

@@Magnetis0101 Most of the beef people ate before a hundred years ago was grass fed. We can do it again.

[@jamesbondlegal2g564]

3.33 MILLION SUBSCRIBERS 🦃

[@arjunchinmayib.n1891]

33.3 m....

[@lerightmerightpeople3165]

33.3m subscribers Wow

[@LifeAndStories89]

It was just a mistake typing so quickly

[@jamesbondlegal2g564]

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[@jamesbondlegal2g564]

@@lerightmerightpeople3165 WOW?

[@seandoherty8858]

While the message is great, I found the delivery of this talk to be arduous to sit through (not to dishearten you, I just felt I had the point before the end and this was maybe a bit too formal)

[@user-yp4nm3os8f]

🦃11/25/2021🦃

[@januarysson5633]

Turkey…yum. 🦃 😋

[@Loubardiva]

CHANGE THE FOOD

[@monasJourneys]

Thank you 🙏 praying that the American farmers to be able to make good food. Without having to go through government standards for chemicals in our fields, And stop giving all the big Pharmacies companies that make high Fructose corn syrup and other things that caused us to want to eat more ( countries don’t allow them chemicals in their food like trans fats and other things why does a miracle allow it that would stop a lot of problems for our Health) saying that it’s to make it last longer for the masses which is not true. Thank you 😊

[@larrycarter1192]

People think hot dogs are good. Any factory can process meat like that and sell it anywhere in the world in any form.. It's cheap to make and easy to sell. People might know cheaper is better. Why buy the whole turkey when you can just buy a pack of processed turkey?

[@jamesbondlegal2g564]

🤔

[@subratabhowal41]

The urgency of illustratious slides in presenting any subject specially a good one being felt so acutely. **How Food is related with Religions and Politics/Governness has not been discussed though the same should be included.

[@tehno_logy]

Не понимаю, но жутко интересно

[@leonchavez4832]

Very brave of you. Lets normalize truth

[@MATEMOTIVANDO]

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[@richardg8651]

Sadly less then 40K views is nothing . So tilt at all the windmills you wish to . As for me , everything in moderation . Very little junk because it taste exactly so . Limited alcohol and certainly no smoking of anything . Smaller meals . Eating when hungry . Healthy snacks . Much less red meat . Look at "organic" food with great suspicion . Lots of low impact exercise . Oh and being a messiah is dangerous to your mental health .

[@loremipsum685]

He seems to overly discount moderation when it comes to eating 'junk'.

[@loremipsum685]

otherwise, pretty much agree

[@juancarlospetrides4245]

Firsttttt

[@rubygreta1]

1:44 - Climate Change. After that I knew the lecture would be pure propaganda.

[@devonm6187]

Nothing propaganda about it.