What's wrong with our food system - Birke Baehr

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11-year-old Birke Baehr presents his take on a major source of our food -- far-away and less-than-picturesque industrial farms. Keeping farms out of sight promotes a rosy, unreal picture of big-box agriculture, he argues, as he outlines the case to green and localize food production. (Filmed atTEDxNextGenerationAshevillen.)
Talk by Birke Baehr.

[@partyparrot168]

My left ear had fun with listening to Birke

[@brandoneidam7960]

Same

[@chatswithsoph8633]

Wow I never knew that corn was in corn 🌽

[@laura4basics]

he is an incredible Indigo child for sure. he stole my soul and heart. Keep up the great cause Birke Baehr.

[@karismayumnam6256]

amazing!!! Too young yet too smart

[@Sam-xw9hv]

1:23 I agree with you with the idea that GMOs, if used improperly can be extremely devastating not only for humans but for an entire ecosystem for example what is happening in Argentina with Monsanto needs to end now but GMOs are not to be seen only as a threat for us, taking genes of a plants and putting them in other plant is perfectly natural, it's not because it's people in white suits instead of a biosystem that it's different. Nature has been creating GMOs since the beginning of life, the entire concept of evolution is based on GMOs. Besides they can help on so many levels : instead of using pesticides on food that pollute both us and the planet, we can used GMOs. They can solve so many problems that we have and honestly, I don't think we should be so sceptical about using them...

[@laszloh31]

Samia Serbouti I agree with you and btw the kid in the video talks about cancer but actually it doenst give you cancer. but there still is a problem with GMOs. biodiversity is threatenend by GMOs because they would be more resistant they will spread everywhere and it will putt of the ecosystem's balance. We can't control nature yet. I think GMO's are a great idea but we need to be very careful with them

[@maxboyd7255]

I kinda want the frosted flakes

[@melvin691]

EVERY KID IN AMERICA should learn this stuff... it is the only way things will change!

[@SussieOlofssonneuropedagogen]

Fantastisk kille! Han har verkligen förstått det och han har talang att fortsätta sprida budskapet vidare ;-)

[@mclaw84]

Kudos!!!

[@perr4114]

keep it up Birke!!!

[@boblawrence1642]

Bravo kid :)

[@elix577]

wonderful keep it up

[@user-ww8wo6qd8m]

آفرین به این تحقیقات درست

[@dirtyskills1]

Wonderfully said kid

[@WordUnheard]

There's no sound in this video.

[@lilat9309]

he is a smart kid,way to go!!!! tons of adults in usa dont even know or dont care about those.

[@videosaala]

now we talking

[@whitepaw54]

this what they need to be teaching in schools

[@princenephron7546]

An overly simplistic view from an 11yo kid that has been brainwashed by ignorant parents? Okay.

[@PinkMageBuu]

But how would the corporations profit if they did this? We all know how successful the nationally implemented food pyramid was. /s if needed

[@washburnplayer3]

No sound again.

[@SodaDng]

my teacher told me to watch this but before i watched it i thought he was a grown-up

[@sanzidamaliha]

Did he became farmer?

[@catwhisper123]

Who’s here because of school and they have to write a essay

[@trevoranderson1604]

Or a teacher looking for material for class 😂

[@urielcastaneda761]

Gmos made in the 90's was not made using our current system of CRISPER, which has been proven safe, and all food has been altered by breeding. Also, yes, organic food is more expensive. Because, you have to transfer food in hours to sell. Economically it is better to sell packaged food because it reduces the price, feeding people less fortunate.

[@tocxuchannel5914]

Birke like Birfh 🤠🤠🤠

[@tocxuchannel5914]

Birck is

[@nguyentrongdai_messi_ronaldo]

Who want to be a organic farmer

[@henryfun6075]

OMG 😲

[@jixichick]

I eat organic! Go go!

[@billquantus9799]

Quick, what does the scouter say about his IQ level?

[@mrhyde112OI]

what an example! adults must view a bigger point of view on life, trusting our system and the company's blindly is not the way! time to wake up and go back to our ancestors roots and healthy way of life!

[@mrhyde112OI]

@Aiden Porter oh yeah? GMO is done so that fruits and vegetables can be sprayed with 80 pesticides and still survive growing, also so that every single one is almost fotocopied to a sythetic level. Why are people developing tumors with fruits like monsantos strawberries? Go educate yourself a bit insted of being a brainwashed tool of the system.

[@eph2vv89only1way]

I'm glad this kid sees the truth. Now if only the parents and scientists would. But Revelation MUST come to pass.

[@nesslig2025]

It's really sad. The first section is rather ironic (from 0:00 to 1:11) which can be equally said for organic food industry which itself is an industry that is guilty of everything the kid has lumped on GMO exclusively. Don't get me wrong, his criticism was justified but its not just GMO, it's industrial farming in general, including organic. Than the rest of the whole thing is a tirade of propaganda pictures (fishmato....really?) and outright falsehoods (1:35 I am pretty sure the kid was talking about the Seralini study which has been debunked and retracted).

[@TNiinja]

This kid is 22-23 now, wow…..

[@PoyanNabati]

terrible. nothing against the message - it might be accurate - but this kid is clearly relaying a message that he has been brainwashed into believing by adults around him.

[@ciungit]

So being brainwashed to buy unhealthy products is good and being brainwashed to buy organic is bad?

[@PoyanNabati]

ciungit Neither is good.

[@susanwerb3638]

+Poyan Nabati "clearly brainwashed?" does he sound like a drone? or that he doesn't really know what he is talking about? or a bright inquisitive young man free of school and tv programming? have you read his website?

[@SpartaSpartan117]

It seems to me that this kid has little to no idea about the science behind what he is talking about

[@parkerantoine8179]

look, the chemicals and gmos are very helpful, my sister is an antamologist

[@Steele00]

This kid has been fed a number of false information, and is asking all the wrong questions.

[@tocxuchannel5914]

😎😎😎😎😎😎🤩🥳 birfh bair

[@user-iy7mf2pw9s]

actually, putting "fish"(etc) genes in a seed, may solve world's starvation/vitamin supply problem, so...

[@jaimiedeziel2430]

Ice cold

[@lollylemur5041]

I wonder who told him what to say, gmos are not crazy bad, putting a gene of something say fish is not putting actual fish into tomatoes, they’re just genes There’s also nothing we can do to change the industrial food chain, change for an ideal yet less profitable system is impossible

[@VixenAurora]

I'm glad that you care, but please know that animals given more space and better food still don't want to die. They value their lives just like we value ours. We don't need animal products to live and be healthy, so please don't participate in unnecessary harm to animals! Live vegan! ❤

[@jenniferperea5883]

He's woke

[@jarlbradford]

I'm not so sure about this TED talk. I don't feel like this was the child's material and that matters to me. He mentioned about who he would choose to pay. Has he ever paid out of pocket for groceries before? The whole talk feels too much like propaganda.

[@MrErick1160]

Well then it is not propaganda but promotion of healthy habits that can probably save your life..

[@susanwerb3638]

+jarlbradford please follow up and read his site...he addresses your and other's doubts based on "feelings." I am a teacher who is well aware of how smart kids are - especially some who have been free of school programming - it is their "normal" state of inquisitiveness and brightness when not interfered with....judge his ideas rather than dismissing it as propaganda with no basis

[@relgames6080]

Im so annoyed by this GMOs are bad bs

[@averageoutdoorsman3848]

Who cares it won't change

[@tocxuchannel5914]

🍅✝️🦍

[@maiminhanh2205]

I don't like vegetables

[@elix577]

bruh

[@adomasjuska9846]

Fake news

[@tocxuchannel5914]

🍅✝️🎣 yuck