Little Farmer

While looking at Ted Talks to help me with finding a research topic, I found this video of a kid who is an organic farmer himself. Birke Baehr, who was 11 at the time of this, was already a better public speaker and knows more about our food industry than many of us. In his Ted Talks he talks about how like any other kid, he was easily influenced to buy certain foods from the colorful packaging to the toys that some offer. Until he realized that not all pigs and cows are raised on grass-fed farms and he became more concerned with how they are actually raised and the GMOs in our food. He then gave up his dream of being a professional NFL player and decided to become an organic farmer. He has since met with multiple organic farmers, like Joel Salatin who we saw in Food Inc., and has learned more about organic farming. Baehr then brings up a good point of how people are unwilling to pay high prices for food, yet they end up paying the high cost of medical bills once they get sick from eating unhealthy food. This lead to me think about how much we spend on fast food and other junk food that are cheap, but eventually we eat so much of it, it will just equal the cost of organic foods that are healthier for us.  So in the long run, I believe that it’s better to pay for organic foods and live a healthy life now, instead of buying cheap unhealthy foods that I will have to back later with my medical bills from an unhealthy lifestyle.