Food betrayal -- don’t swallow the lies | Alan Lewis | TEDxBoulder
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- This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. As an industry insider, Alan Lewis knows just how badly the food system is broken. In this high energy TEDx talk, Alan reveals the sophisticated methods used by the food industry “fibberati” to manipulate, deceive and distract us. If you have ever read a food label and felt you were being lied to, you have felt the “dark mark” of the fibberati. We can resist these nefarious tactics by making conscious food choices based on core values that support a sustainable and just food system.
Alan directs Government Affairs and Food and Agriculture Policy for Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage, a 60-year-old health food chain operating over 85 stores in fifteen states. He is active in many trade organizations and sits on the Boulder County Food and Agriculture Policy Council. His focus is on communicating with local and federal policy makers using frameworks that are non-confrontational and inclusive -- except for tonight. He has lived for extended periods in Portugal, Haiti, and Dominica, where he developed a keen appreciation for the variables of agriculture production and food systems within different geographic, cultural and economic contexts.
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I am one of those small farmers he is talking about. Corporate farming is a threat to my very existence. But trust me, I would not sell anything that I would not eat myself, or use any chemicals that would potentially harm myself or others. I keep up on the science and research and if anything is questionable I dont use it up to and including chemicals approved for organic farming. I would rather deal with a few crop losses then be accused of destroying the land and the lives of people
Pa Hillbilly
I'm glad there are still a few of y'all out there. I try to buy from people like you, but small local farmers can be hard to find.
The moral of the story is to rebuild local processing and regional logistics so we can move fresh food around to cities and support rural communities outside of the industrial system You in?
We need more people, farmers and gardeners to follow your lead. Keep sharing your experience and knowledge. We are listening at Ecosystem Restoration Camps Community.
@@Reciprocity_Soils Thumbs up for ERC!
You're awesome. I wish I could find a farm like yours near me in Modesto, California. I study video after video of, well, everything!! All of the lies of... Everything.
Anyway, I appreciate your humanitarian approach to farming with conscience.
Good for you!!! THANK YOU!!!!
I have a solution to this whole thing! Community Gardens, every town, city, little beach community whatever all pitch in to grow a community garden big enough to support the community that harbours it. This is how Human civilization first flourished without corporations and scientist doing their lab testing. Use Facebook to organise these things but then go out and interact with one another its what we were born to do !
AMEN. Could not agree more. Look for my book later this year.
What a good idea.
paulitza9 l
It is an admirable idea. However, I suspect it is very likely the people working the community gardens would arrive one morning to find all their work harvested.
And this is how the populations of the world will be annialayed to the levels that the Georgia guide stones will come to pass only 500 million will be allowed to survive for there utopian nightmare but I choose to believe they will fail because God is great and jesus is the way and the truth period
I am so happy that without me even thinking about it I went vegan years ago. I live on nuts, greens, fruits, minerals and coffee. I try to not even use vegan processed food and I duo not use plastic bottled water. Making green smoothies at home has been my saving grace. Since going vegan, I've watch my non vegan friends age so dramatically and I have never felt better. Even when I do get sick now, its strange - I do not even feel as bad I used to and I get better faster. It is amazing to me that people still eat meat and consume dairy I just do not understand it.
I'm about 70. This is what I grew up with. No feed lots, just cows wandering over hills, eating grass, and hay made from that grass, in the winter. I had never tasted pasteurised milk until I was 19 or so, and never had beef fed with silage. Just grass and hay. The beef tasted fantastic. But you see, the cattle had to be allowed to live for about twice as long to grow fully, and that's why the industry wanted to change it - it lets them make the same money with fewer cattle. Funny thing is, that change gives them an advantage for a few years, but then the good taste is gone and the price they can get drops, so they cut costs further by feeding grain and corn, and the quality drops again, but by this time, they have much more of the market because their product is cheap, and the good guys now have so little of the market they have to jack the price of their good product up high or they go out of business - so the good stuff also gets much dearer because the poor stuff is cheaper and sells more.
Go back, get great taste and good healthy stuff you can still afford. And the farmer makes more money, not less.
I'm 80 & was raised on a 4 person, family dairy farm in Eastern Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania Dutch) -- I'm bewildered. There's no one around anymore who understands what normal is.
all I know is that every "improvement" in "efficiency" in farming over the last 50/60 years translates into less tasty, less nutritious meat, older milk, blander cheese, shorter lives for the livestock, less income for the farmer (dramatically less, per pound), more income for the middlemen, more income for the supermarkets and less value for the consumer. Beef (all meats, really) used to taste amazing. When the smell of a piece of meat cooking hit you, your mouth would turn into a waterfall.
I’m 55 and in my lifetime the population of the earth has doubled. Tripled in yours. We have to have factory farms to feed levels of population
This is exactly true, from beef to olive oil.
Eric Patterson you’re believing the fiberati. The entire population can get the equivalent calories from 6-10% of the land currently used for industrial agriculture. Please plant a kitchen garden if you don’t have one.
So happy to be vegan, vegetarian at 22, Vegan at 63, Almond/Walnut milks are awesome, no dairy anymore.Lost 20 Lbs in a month. If more people tried it the dairy industry would almost disappear, start teaching our children with videos like this one, thank you!
Almonds - one of the most damaging crops on the planet. Go figure.
@@aplewis7346explain?
One day I was sitting in a meat production university class, being taught how to boost muscle production by implanting bovine growth hormones. And suddenly I had an epiphany. I realized in that moment, that this is fundamentally wrong in too many ways to describe. I had a similar reaction, over time, regarding other forms of forcing agricultural production by artificial means in crop production and food processing. And I remember wondering whether I was the only one in class that felt that way? I think I was. But at least there are others in different places and their numbers are increasing. And this man speaks for all of us. We should listen to what he says - and vote with our money wherever we shop for food.
I entirely agree with what you say! I felt the same way in ag. college. Agriculture has become unbelievably more destructive with input-intensive, nutritionally-deficient industrial agribusiness. Central USA will become a desert and the topsoil will all be in the Gulf of Mexico in the lifetime of our children.
@@jackfanning7952 the other thing that swung my mind was observing how our broiler chickens which were organically fed free range, till didn't appear to be real chickens. They would run 8 or ten paces and then have to sit down. Then run again, and sit down, and so on. They grew so fast, but they were biological freaks. It horrified me to think that we have bred these freaks of nature and are eating them. And I know it is much worse now than it was back then. Our civilization is heading for genuine trouble.
Yes yes yes. I totally agree with you just so long as you don’t rule out the ethical only meat eaters such as myself. It is all about where we put our money and if more people did choose to go vegan or buy ethically raised meat we wouldn’t have these problems. And it’s a damn shame at that that this is what we have come to as a planet. Trying to play god in the wrong damn way by boosting every food item with so many damn chemicals and hormones that If you actually knew you’d probably be disgusted by
Thank you Alan Lewis for your courage and love to say the truth. God Bless you.
Thanks. Bless you too.
Thank you for sharing ...a brave thing you are doing ...
Alan lewis. Prayers of grace on your truths. Thank you for your courage.
Thanks for that kind thought. Need it!
This talk was incredible! There is real food war out there and everyone is affected one way or another.
Support your local farmers markets! ✊🏻
Do your homework on the farmer markets some of their produce it's not their own this is not to scare you it's the truth
Damn right.
ab nice Absolutely right, I always ask new vendors about their growing practices, the products they use, exactly what they feed their animals.
Produce sold at farmers markets is quite often regular bulk bought at large wholesalers and sold at as premium and "organic" at farmers markets. Buyer beware!
@m. rude
If your paycheck doesn't allow you to head the seasons of the real world your paycheck is too low.
Unionize.
My story: I Have been a diabetic for close to 10 years. About 5 years ago, I joined the Peace Corps moved to a (unnamed for political reasons) Balkan state. While I was there, I consumed non- GMO foods, since they followed the E.U. food standards. I became post diabetic. No more diabetes !
When I returned to the USA, after 3 months my diabetic symptoms came back. I can only attribute it to food. In the USA, the foods, have corn syrups, corn oils, animal feeds, etc.
Serious question: why don't you move back?
Wonderful speaker, wonderful talk. Thank you thank you thank you. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Video is nearly 5 years old and still relevant...if not more so now than in 2014.
Uh, yeah, they won.
It's always a problem when a vidoe gets stale. I'm still pretty happy with this one. Lot's of new views, too.
It will remain relevant for decades
@@PeterJames143 Its up to people to be more thoughtful when they food shop. Not much is more important than food so don't cheap out.
And 2021
My left ear just went vegan.
i laughed more then I should have :)
I thought I was the only one! I thought my headphones were ruined haha
Hahahahaha I can agree with you
Nice saying! :D
Let the rest of your body follow, honestly, you won't regret it...
😂😂😂
Great job and keep exposing the fibberati. They are everywhere. Faved and thumbs up!
Thanks, Tomoko. I loved the audience laughter when I rubbed the Daaaark Maaaark on my forearm... That seemed to drive the point home.
A P Lewis
Actually, I did not get that Daark Maark on the forearm clue. Please explain.
Gittl G. Warning: some people find these images offensive! In the Harry Potter books, Lord Voldemort placed the Dark Mark brand on his followers' inner left forearms both as a sign of their loyalty to him and as a method of summoning them to him when he desired.
harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Dark_Mark People of a certain age or who had kids of a certain age will remember the Dark Mark pretty much forever..
MrCinagro
Thank you!
This message needs to be translated into every language on earth. Don`t think this is only happening in North America, This is a worldwide,insidious plan.
Let's get the word out!
So lucky to happen upon a Talk by someone about a real issue - a very serious matter - and so well humoured. This is going on Facebook + Twitter !
THANKS
Right on!!! Agreed!! Love this talk! 👍🏼😁❤️
Fantastic and informative speech regarding the tactic's of the Federal Death Administration!
Thank you Alan, for exposing these activities, and for speaking from the heart! 😌🙏☀🌙✨
Thanks. I've got your back.
FDA Federal Death Administration i like it!!! .....many a true word said in jest !!!
He is talking about private companies buying out any competition or opposing voices, not leaving a choice to farmers or consumers.... and you equate it with a state-run program. Private huge companies are the problem not the few food safety federal’programs we still have left
Veganism, community gardens, whole plant foods, and love for all animals is the best path forward . 💙
Yup!
Fuuuuuuuk a vegan,and i care for all my animals. They live good happy lives, and then I eat them.
Much love to you,@@daviddawson1718. I don't think it's any coincidence that eating plant foods is the most compassionate way to eat along with the healthiest way to eat. You may not understand this yet but I believe you will one day. May I ask why you kill and eat your animals if you love them? Once you go just a few days without eating them you will understand that you never needed to. Then you will finally feel aligned in the way you live and eat. It will be beautiful. 💙
@@AustnSpace111 plants can feel and hear too. Guess we should drink and eat air.
You sound like a typical vegan. 🙄
Truth telling with a sense of humor that will keep you watching! Alan shares from the heart about what is happening to our food. A wholesome meal.
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Thanks Deb. Ironically, I covered so much so quickly it was a lot to chew on!
Ohh man. "These products feel better in your bones" 2:50 🤦🏼♂️
If it's not your Mum, it's not your milk.
Check out Dr. Neil Bernard and his studies on dairy and health.
this guy is as full of baloney as pork sausage
Some people only heal on animal foods, including raw milk. From other animals. Please don’t be dogmatic about what is and isn’t good for other people based on one viewpoint.
@@bitrudder3792 I call B.S.
No to vegan for me,
Goats milk closest to humam milk
Start you backyard food gardens. And help a neighbor with starting one as well .
Or in my case a front yard garden, along with my neighbors. Pesticide free. Shared labor and tools. Shared harvest.
I live on the upper floor of an apartment building so I don't have a backyard. But hey, people living in cities is a lot better for the environment than spread suburbs.
Hahaha, my neighbor won’t even mow his grass.
Learn about food and medicine independence from your great-grandparents and great-great-grandparents. Learn from the Amish and from the Native American Indians who still knows a lot of the old ways and write them down ON PAPER AND MICROFILM THEM ALL! Learn from the still independent South American, Mexican, and Asian farmers not dependent on corporations and write them all down on PHYSICAL PAPER AND MICROFILM THEM ALL. Learn from them all on how to make good soil, good food, good medicinal herbal pharmaceutical crops, and learn from them on how to inter-crop, double-plant, multi-altitude planting-cropping, and tree cropping combined into a single symbiotic self-helping farm. REVIVE YOUR WW II VICTORY GARDENS-FARMS AGAIN and this time make it PERMANENT AND FOREVER BY LAW! For that is your 4th Constitutional Right! Learn also on how to make your gardens-farms a self-contained/self-recycling farm.
People living in the cities is worse for the environment for HUMANS ARE ALSO PART OF THE ECOSYSTEM and lethal to the people for if something went wrong with the linkages between cities and farmlands, you cannot eat concrete and steel. Look at your history books about the Incas and the South Ameridian civilizations that flourishes in the millions because they were all spread out and practices intensive self-contained/self-recycling agriculture alongside with nature. In fact, one Spanish Chronicler once said about the Incas which has a population density of modern day Monaco in the mid-1960s, said "IN THAT LAND HUNGER DOES NOT EXISTS". And all of that existed before the existence of modern day agriculture. No GMOs, no hybrids, no agricultural chemicals, etc and the people, before the arrival of the Spanish Conquistadores, are healthy but the Spanish Conquistadores brought with them are European diseases that they are immune already but the Incas are not and at the same time the Spanish Conquistadores went face to face to new diseases and medical ailments to which they are not immune but only the Incas are immune to. The destruction of their civilization which is closely intertwined with agriculture and nature with the brutal Spanish conquest and lust for gold and silver almost destroyed their agricultural urban/rural knowledge but wise Spanish Missionaries Chroniclers immediately went to work to talk to them with an interpreter to write everything down and make as many copies as possible to share with each other and to be compiled together.
Thanks fpr explaining. Its about time they truly hear whats going on. "Because even those in the in will be out when not important anymore"
my wife and i moved out of our city 18 years ago onto 30 ac
we started with egg layers (six) and quickly saw that we could not actually eat all those eggs,
then we got meat chickens (different breed) then dual purpose hens
then we got ducks
and turkeys
and geese
and ring-necked pheasants
and ginea hens
and a couple of piglets
now getting ready for our first beef-calf.
We put in the freezer enough for our needs and sell off to family and close friends the balance and we are so happy and content.
Every day i watch what my animals eat, knowing that is what my family will eat.
Pretty simple really - don't feed them anything you don't want to be eating.
R. B.L. Congratulations ! I’m so happy for you . Keep up the good work
@Jessica Hicking i hope you can Jessica, we took the step that we could do this in small (affordable) steps over a long period of time if that was the only way then we would do that. so when we started i would not have thought 18 years later we would still be taking the steps but here we are, and happier than ever. The final steps are to deal with power supply, and this one is a big one due to the cost of the parts and the big plunge we will be taking when we cut ties to the power grid, but we are getting there.
my advice to you is to do what you can as you can, but always be moving in the direction you want to go. If the step is too big - like purchasing the plot of land you need - you can still do small steps like we did all those years ago - open a separate account and put $x.xx in it each and every paycheck date, so you are saving for the day you can buy your plot of land, do your homework on searching out where you will set up. Watch for stuff and items you will need that someone else is giving away ( i can't tell you how much stuff we got at yard sales, or just for free for the asking. Never give up on your plan, just do what you can as you can
@Jessica Hicking Those are great ideas, Jessica, my experience is to keep working at it, experiment a bit and be prepared to make changes, after all not everything will work out the way you intend or expect. If you can find a group in your area familiar with the land and what works (and what doesn't) ask them questions and learn all you can after all their wisdom will be free for the asking. And aside from a lot of negative stuff in the media, people are actually very helpful and polite with one another when you ask for some help.
Incredible video, I need to re-watch this again now.
Thanks!
Sacred Thyme
I shared this on FB even though I know it will be ignored.
Ignorance is just as guilty as the corporations.✌
Me too
@@melanieevaldi7222 Yes it is. So how much better are so called "organic foods" ? All these "natural" and "organic" labels really mean is it will cost you more. It doesn't mean it will be healthier or that the growing process is better for the environment. The natural food industry, the various corporations that make it up, don't have you or the planets best interest in mind but they would like you to think they do.
@@myothersoul1953 I'm no expert on the topic but I try to learn some things about the foods I consume. Nor do I purchase all organic or natural products because I know most of it is not what they claim. Since I learned several years ago that the rain forests were being destroyed to raise cattle that just didn't sit right with me at all. Then I had seen videos of how live stock were being mis treated and there is absolutely no reason for that either. What I have been doing slowly over the past years is changing my diet to my beliefs and I feel many people are doing the same. I try my best to purchase items with the least amount of waste, eat more fruit and vegtables, recycle and reuse. It's extremely difficult to find reputable companies and farms so I'm happy that people are beginning to speak up because if we don't our food will get worse every year. With some items I go by looks. If a potato is gynormus then I know thats not normal. I'm just a girl in this amazing world doing the best I can for myself and nature.✌
@@melanieevaldi7222 I think your approach is good. I avoid foods marketed as organic, natural (what's not?) or gluten free because I think it's a scam. I will buy local produce straight from the farmer, specially ripe tomatoes. I'll spend $4 for a fresh ripe tomato, they're so yummy. I was lucky, my family grew about 50% of what we ate. I know what's it's like to sell produce by the roadside. Now I'm unlucky because I knew how fresh tastes but I live far from our farm. Organic or not, fresh is rarely available. Fresh food also a luxury, in a world with 7,500,000,000 persons there is no way everyone can eat without mass agriculture. Anything I eat that takes more resources, land, water or nutrients cuts down on what is available for others. So, like you, I try to live as lightly as I can on this planet.
My goal is to have as little impact as possible.
Alan you spoken the truth man. Great Video
Wow! I loved this video. Makes perfect sense.
Thank you!
Good for you!! I feel faint! An honest man! Don't know many. I can not afford the expense of meat, nor would I want to. I am not a cannibal in any sense of the word!!!
I responded to this same comment on narc survivior but what is it doing here ?? And out of all the vids I watch what are the odds id stumble on this same comment on TED TALKS ?? TEDX - Super weird ...
End Speciesism. Go watch ''Dominion'' It changed my life.
Yep. We are all in this together, not all in this for humans.
Cheers
Don't worry, we will be soon, human will be available on the shelf for cities and nations overpopulated by mass immigration relative to the farming they can do under the changing solar maunder minimum effects and potentional for national scaled farming under the changing global and corporate conditions massaged, in part, by such groups as 'global parliament of mayors'.
@@parrotshootist3004 it happens...Try not to think about it? Lol........
@@wpdrusky When life gives you lemons, make marinade and rub on liberally!? LOL
such a good way to transmit the message, great talk congrats
Great speech. Thank you!
One of those stores is near me... so going to check them out. Thanks Alan Lewis. Great Ted talk.
I Like This Guy, Thank You For Sharing
*Moringa Drought resistant trees .Some of them never get water & 25-40 ft they grow
even in Asian countries where no other trees grow.These can supply all our basic needs
while they heal & detoxify us & Planet -can support the world basic medical/food needs
plus * We can grow in 100's of countries.*Moringa God's Miracle Tree! We're Blessed
Linda Majka hi
Thanks man. Get it now before it goes corporate.
And if this becomes a fad, entire ecosystems will be destroyed to grow this tree, to feed a fad in North America.
It wouldn't matter if we were gifted all of the trees we ever cut down and the earth were returned to its pre-man pristine state. The world is growing exponentially. Our needs double with our population. Each doubling means that we burn through more resources than the entirety of human civilization prior.
We would simply expand into the windfall and be right back where we started.
Thanks for hitting the nail on the head.....
Best ted talk I’ve seen. Finally one about a meaningful aim and message
Funny how it baked here on low for five years, and is just now suddenly starting to rise in the bundt pan.
Broken down to the basics: corporate greed. The same presentation can be made about any thing we consume.
Once upon a time, a corporation had to be chartered by an act of a legislature. It could only exist for a specific purpose, and that purpose had to be in the public interest. That corporation could operate for only a specific period of time, and it then had to seek recharter.
That was the way corporations worked when the Constitution was written. Pull out your copy of the Constitution and look how many times you will find the word "corporation." I will save you time: not once. So how did we arrive to a time when corporations have constitutional rights?
Food tastes different compared to when I was a kid. This decay in food quality is another way overpopulation is reducing our standard of living. The spike in real estate prices and demand for a high rise cubicle condo is another.
not to mention about the big gmo scandal that we are in now
Yep. A naturally raised hog yields a pork chop whose every bite is a revelation. (Sorry non meat folks!)
A hog raised in a feedlot on ractopamine yields a tasteless mealy pig steak. You are not just being sentimental. There really is a difference between real and industrial food.
Check out Leach and Fairhead 'Misreading the African Landscape'. They basically refute the Malthusian notion of overpopulation. It's not a numerical or quantitative problem but rather an issue of how humans and communities relate, organise and produce.
@Christopher Har V no need, just stopping the consumption of animal product will save us
Mark, I don't think its overpopulation, it's the industry and how it works.
Fantastic !!! Thank you !!!
Excellent. Thank you.
I love this !
A few years back I read a story about a small, family owned Organic Dairy in America,... This little Dairy started a small, local Marketing Campaign & worked it.
They built awareness in their town, their county, their state, their community about their grass fed, naturally grazed, organic Dairy Products.
The result was regular Mothers went into the local Walmart & asked for the brand but it was not there,... They kept coming & they kept asking,... They kept telling management that they WANTED this brand, for their family !
It grew to the point that Walmart Purchasing dudes went to this little Dairy to look for a deal & the deal, eventually was good for the little Dairy :)
The Walmart crew did their job & tried to screw the price down & I respect that,... That is their job but here's the thing,... That little Dairy created a market, a demand for their product to the point that Walmart came to them & paid THEIR price !
That doesn't happen !
I have been in Management for Walmart so I can tell you that the Walmart strategy is that they don't sell what YOU WANT (like most stores do) ... They sell you what they can buy well ;)
I so much enjoyed finding this story because it taught me something & taught the giant something,... WE, the CONSUMER CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE !
Australians are doing this NOW with Milk,... Sadly, Chinese companies are buying up Australian Dairies & selling their Milk under the generic store brand cheap but Aussies have started a Social Media campaign to buy form Locally Owned AUSSIE Dairy Farms & it is working :)
Australians are posting pics on social media that show Australian Owned Local Dairy Milk is selling out in the stores even though it is 30% more expensive & Aussies are leaving the cheap, Chines owned stuff on the shelf :)
I have never felt better about WE THE PEOPLE but we all talk about politics but never about our food,... Which is SHIT ! :(
Also... A good point was the "less than 2%" thing,... Is it less than 2% TOTAL or less than 2% each ingredient ?
It's an odd fact of history that the man who did some of the worst damage to the American farm family and the American dairy industry was consumer advocate Ralph Nader. His crusade again raw milk and raw milk cheese ended a very important revenue stream for small producers, and stopped the reciruclation of cash within the rural economies. He confused local production and consumption of these products with what happens when they enter the national food distribution system. He was abetted by the Dairy Lobby.
AP Lewis
I live in Pennsylvania where I'm sure Raw Milk is still legal for private sale.
David Lomm what's gonna happen when that little dairy gets enough business and has to raise thousands of animals at a time to meet demand? ............factory farming. Many people who see footage of a slaughterhouse go vegan and wish they did It sooner, like me. Go Vegan and we will fix not all but many of the problems we face. If 6 billion (ish) people keep eating meat and animal products, we will keep having this problem. Help Reduce the demand by going vegan.
Whatever God you believe in I'm hoping he blesses this truth-telling man...
There's only One God; you and I aren't created by 2 different entities.
@@autumnicleaf the GOD is one but peoples use many names 😁
Amen to that
I am glad that I live in a country where the majority of animals are grass fed... However, like most countries we too have a rising population of obesity, cancer, diabetes, Dementia and so on... I strongly believe that this is due to our food and water being pumped with harmful chemicals.. What I find very interesting is that certain indigenous peoples of the Amazon live solely on a plant based diet and yet they have very few (or none at all) of our western dis-eases... They are obviously doing something right... A good read is 'One Spirit Medicine' by Alberto Villoldo..
This really was a well thought out presentation, and I enjoyed it tremendously.
This guy, Alan Lewis is awesome. That's why everyone is lactose intolerant nowadays!
ex catholic amen, that is exactly why!!!. I was born in 1980. I grew up drinking milk, but now I can't enjoy milk because of the pain it causes me. Science is more of a curse tan a blessing. Leave our food alone. God made our food perfect, but since men have started modifying it through science we are becoming intolerant to the very substances that are meant to sustain life.
I agree with you, of course.
very well put!!!!!!! good job my man.
Thanks B-Trips!
So important! I especially like the clever ending of "Good night and good luck."
Ah, a student of history. Thanks for noticing!
Grow our own food, take back our choices and take control of our own health. Greenhouse agriculture is where we can make a difference. And using in them nutrient dense toxic free methods of growing fresh food. I've been hunting for years for solution to running greenhouses cheap, finally found what I was hunting for in the most unexpected place, right under our nose and we failed to recognize it.
Let's actually use science to our benefit, not for deception.
I'm with you!
When the science falls into corporate hands it all becomes about profits. There's no other consideration.
Nice talk Alan. Tough topic told in an engaging way. Well done!
Thanks. I was given nine minutes, needed fifteen, made it to twelve and a half. Great experience.
Excellent talk. Thank you
Thanks + gratitude.
Excellent talk.
Awesome!! So Happy that the OCA put this Link in their Newsletter that will reach MILLIONS of People's In-boxes.....now they will hopefully click on it and spend 12 Minutes listening to your well thought out and researched Talk. I like the *pops* of humor, it keeps things interesting. My father, who was a great pubic speaker and teacher, always said to "tell stories and add humor", it helps folks from drifting and daydreaming. GREAT TED TALK>>>>>THANK YOU!!
ps....I'm already doing my part, but I can always do more, by buying almost 100% Organic, as local as I can when I can and I'm almost Vegan. :-)
Passionate people tend to bark. And bark and bark. TED talks are designed to make people distill to the essence. But then it's too dense (something my friends have gently pointed out is true of this Fibberati talk). A group of us spent two months addressing the question of openness and authenticity, and how humor is essential to engaging an audience (whether you convince them of anything or not). When trying to change the framing of an issue, to change the point of view, to create the Oh Aha moment, it's good to use the kind of humor where one punch line is expected but another altogether different one is delivered.
Related to this, when you drop the grenade of feeding sick "Elsie the cow" to our kids, you really need some comic relief to counterbalance that unhappy fact. Elsie wearing Che's beret seemed just the trick.
Thanks for the kind note.
the FOOD monopoly has made this TEDx silent. There is no volume.
This happens a couple of times a year. I beat them off with a stick and the volume comes back on.
The sound worked for me
great speech. the truth.
Wonderful points, thank you! Our health and lives depend on us finding local Organic Farmers who keep their soil rich and healthy, so that the plants and animals they produce are fully nutritious. Mega-organic Farming on depleted soil is the other fraud that is in progress.
The fiberati have deleted the right track from your audio, please fix!
Dairy is bad for us no matter how it is produced.
Only cows milk - but cream is good for butter, etc, it is more digestible. But even a newborn baby can drink goats milk - and was the choice if a Mother died in labor, or did not have milk. A baby anything but a calf, will die on cows milk, but not so for goat's milk.
awesome TED talk
Love this guy!
I grew up on a 20 acre farm. We housed 300+ chickens in chicken coop buildings. This was how is was when we bought the farm in 1958. The chicken buildings were build in 1941. The buildings were necessary to produce enough eggs to sell in order for the farm to be profitable - supply and demand. A cow needs about 1.8 acresof land to supply it's grazing needs. Farmland is at a premium. Much of it being swallowed up by housing. Farmers can't afford the taxes on the land in order to keep those dairies pretty, they
require a lot of up keep. Go visit a local dairy and see if they are taking care of the cows adequately. How clean is the barn? Do they have enough land to graze the herd they have? If not, then the cows are over grazing the land. Why are the farmers allowing overgrazing? Because he can’t afford the luxury of 1.8 acres per cow, the property is too expensive. So he puts more cows on per acre because cows are what brings him the money, not the quality - supply and demand. What does the farm give his cows in the winter when the grass has went dormant? Did he raise the grain as well? If not, he probably is giving his cows GMO grain and corn. There are many hidden things going behind the scene of that 'pretty dairy' where the cows supposedly are happy and content and until the average American actually works on a farm, they will never understand that.
Well said, thanks.
I guess that would depend on where you live and the laws for grazing livestock. In my area we have open pasture laws. The cows have more land than the town has for people to live on. (and it's not a small town) All the farmers cows mingle together and are only distinguishable by their brands. They are wild and not used to human contact. They are pretty much left alone to grow until slaughter size. (or whenever someone orders one) Upon talking to one of the farmers I asked if they supplement the diet. They said sometimes they leave hay out for them during leaner times in the summer before the monsoons. There is only one farm who is fenced in.They raise Angus and don't want crossbreeding with the other cows.
I'm always curious to see and what point will beef and dairy become so expensive that no one will buy it. I haven't bothered to buy beef in years. A $11 steak? $6 for a pound of ground beef? I don't want or need beef that badly. I also haven't had milk in years. although it's because I'm lactose intolerant. But it still never comes into my house, since I'm in charge of groceries. The government and Dairy industry can whine and fight until they are blue in the face. It's won't change anything. Sorry Dudes.
All dairy products we love can be made with organic HEMP seeds not mention all the other nuts and seeds..and they all taste so much better
Hamish Moodie without all the nutrients though.
Bridgette, HEMP seeds are way more nutritious than any animal based foods..look it up, do some research
Hemp? Come on. Good for making rope. And sails. Overrated as food.
@@PeterJames143 Try it
Unless if these type of alternate foods are not Mass produced. Else it adds to all the industrial farming hazards like chemical sprays, fertilizers, deforestation and we then again come back with the same environmental impact. You need organic farming to save the planet, else no point in promoting veganism or vegetarianism or any modern healthy diet.
Thank you so much for the truth is hard to find. with the elimination of fake foods there is not much to buy in the store except fruit and veggies, and keep an eye on the fruit is being gmo”ed
Can you name the fruit that you claim that uses gmo technology Carol.
Only in US this happens the most. No other country has industrialized food so much to an extreme level resulting in extreme obesity, diabetes, heart disease and so on. If your food is packed in plastic wrapper or box with a shelf life, it means it is unworthy for your health.
We need laws that force the food industry to pay for our health insurance/care.
Raja Bhat you do understand who makes the law and for what they make those right? You seem to be old enough to know they are not here to serve us.
12:06 notice how something was chopped out.
I live in Wisconsin, lots of family farms here. I know a farmer that was about to pay off his farm after many years of hard work, then the government came in and said we found 1 endangered bird on your property and you need to do a bunch of remodeling and property changes or you will lose your farm. We are talking 100,000 dollars or more. Why would farmers want to try anymore with the way they are being treated? We have a few of those huge commercial farms too, and they have been accused of polluting the water supply. The family farms won’t be here for long if we don’t do something.
Thank you
What an excellent presentation!
Thanks Dove!
I live in Wisconsin with dairy farms all around me and this guy is the fiberatti. The cows are always out in green pastures and go in at milk time.
Come see dairy cows in Colorado in August.
@@aplewis7346 So, we should punish everyone for the people who don't treat their animals properly? All those people who treat those animals humanely and make a living? I'm always curious about people that use that type of scorched earth solution. How did they grow up? I remember in classrooms in school where a teacher would take privileges from the entire class because someone he/she didn't know broke a rule.
@@fire7side it only takes one moron to phukitupp for the rest of us !!! we are the ones punished not him.
Thank you Alan Lewis for such great Ted Talk info. Sharing it now.
Thanks. I get lots of heat for speaking out. It's part of the process.
Godspeed, Alan.
Our enemies always do the Trojan Horse routine, and we always fall for it with the Peace & Love farce to shame us into capitulation.
Because it is your SLAVERY that they are after. Peace and Love is not the opposite of Slavery. The opposite of Slavery is Sovereignty - Liberty - Freedom...Forming the foundation based on Self-Love and making it possible to love others and wage peace.
to me the easiest way to make it all so much better is to stop eating meat & dairy... I haven't eaten meat or dairy in over 15 years... we need to work on great healthy soil for our plants & trees & stop producing meat, if we want to get things back in control STOP EATING MEAT & DAIRY.
I hope you have seen the recent numbers on dairy demand. Consumers are turning away from milk products in favor of plant based dairy like almond, soy, rice and hemp. I see the same thing happening with meat. If you look at how meat is consumed in the US, many people are opting to eat smaller amounts less often. They choose meat from responsibly and humanely raised animals that improve the environment rather than using it as a big public toilet. I realize this does not address the philosophical objection to killing and eating animals. I don't know how that end can be met.
AP Lewis I too do see the moving away from dairy these last 5 to 10 years & it is a very good thing... people are realizing it takes way to much of their bodies energy to digest meat... we can get more benefits from plant food & let our bodies run so much better & serve us as it should be keeping meat out of our eating or a a very low amount... :)
I am totally plant based & am so glad I made the change so many years ago... :)
Almonds are sucking California dry. How's that for sustainable?!?
Urbin Fahmah
I think that there are greater forces at work in California than almond groves drying out the earth. The drought may actually be related to the lack of precipitation, for instance, but scientists have yet to reach a conclusive consensus on the issue.
Another suspected cause of water problems is the intense demand from urban centers and 50 years of pumping water from underground sources that do not replenish nearly as fast. If the draught is in fact caused by the almond trees, we should look into cutting them all down to end the drought. You should call your local extension agent and make this suggestion.
Undoubtedly!! It's a whole host of accumulated issues over a long period of time that are wreaking havoc and the solutions are going to be as diverse and over an even greater period of time, likely. The demand for almonds has increased exponentially over the past decade because they are viewed as a health food and people need to understand that comes at a cost one way or another. Now, because almonds are worth so much farmers are opting to let the veggie crops go to save the almonds because there isn't enough water for both. What's that going to do to the veggie market? It's a cascading effect that will effect almost every plate in North America. People just need to understand the impact of their buying choices.
Great speech. It makes me feel a little queasy about the pizza I ate for dinner. Well most of this information isn't new to me it's helpful to be reminded sometimes just what it is we're eating on a regular basis.
+Matthew Evans
I had a fantastic pizza on sunday. Nothing wrong about that, and the original has nothing to do with the junk-food cousin.
Yeah, there can be momenets everything I said get's thrown out the window when the pizza comes out of the wood fired oven. #OnlyHuman
Video touched my soul thank you
Thanks. Check out an upcoming book by Stephe Erickson called The Great Healing -- I helped edit and contributed. Lot's more detail on science, and compassion for humans and animals.
So where do you get the resistance carrot t-shirt. These bold talks are so inspirational and I also fear for your well being. Thank you.
I wish you peace
"When the animal is harvested....." ??? What a nice way of saying "slaughtered". Animals aren't crops planted by farmers and they're certainly not "harvested".
Agreed. Let's say murdered and eviscerated.
Lions, leopards, hyenas, coyotes, wildcats get to harvest.
How many people would use dairy products if they knew that the milk contained PUS?!?! I first learned this in college but dismissed it as "gee, what a nutty professor!" But then I got severe arthritis in my hands and back and thought it might be that I was eating yogurt every day for lunch. I remembered how milk constipated me as a child and how terrible my asthma was. At this point, I could not open a door knob unless it was lever-style. My dear husband had changed all the doorknobs in our house for me. I could not open a jar, got a neat-o can opener which opened jars too because of course, spaghetti sauce in the jar tastes best, right?
Did some research on milk, listened to videos Dr. Walter Veith and all the other videos I could find on milk. They also talked about the PUS in milk. So I got myself some vanilla soy milk and decided I was going to try this for a month and give up cheese, ice cream and yogurt. In one month I could again sign my name. I could open regular door knobs and after 3 months, unless the jar is stuck really tight, I can open most jars.
Our body is designed to heal if we stop the food poisoning. That was 15 years ago. Then I began to transition to vegetarian and finally I am a vegan. Feel so much better as I could not always manage the arthritis in my back. Going vegan, I lost 55 lbs. and if my back gets sore, usually a good nights sleep is all it takes now to feel alright again. I am 66 and my blood pressure is normal, my cholesterol is normal, my blood sugar A1C number now shows I have no sign of diabetes, whereas I had been pre-diabetic.
My husband's also gone vegan with me and he is doing better, as he would not give up milk and ended up with prostate cancer stage 4 and has to be operated. They got the cancer but I told him he can't go back and eat the same way so he is following my lead and he's lost weight, his blood pressure is under control now also and both of us take no medications whatsoever.
If we stop the food poisoning, the diseases go away. Listen to Dr. John McDougall.
The ones who have nothing else to eat but the cow. That's why this is a complex systematic issue that cannot be reduced to a snappy comeback based on what you see in your local grocery store. Join the conversation. It's fascinating.
Hurray for this man
I have never trusted American food for some reason.
Why there was a skip just after he said " This is my message".
I noticed that too, I wonder what got cut out...
I flubbed my big line, stopped and redid it. Sorry, no big conspiracy as much as I would like one!
Informative video. But there are two kinds of GMOs: one is natural, through cross-pollination (how nature works), the other is through direct gene splicing using chemicals. I prefer organic.
Three kinds. The new ones are created using Artificial Intelligence then the genes are assembled and sparked to life.
So in essence and in practical steps what do we have to do?
Thanks for the reminder of just how badd processed foods really are
Oh .... so many claim a freewill, but fail miserably.
Freewill is a lie to acuse us all, conditionedwill is all there is.
MMM The smell of those garden fresh veggies smells so much sweeter.
Damn. That was brilliant. Brilliant.
Pasture cows,and intensive cows all end up the same way, in the food chain.
They are doing this in every aspect of our lives.... every day they creep in and get bigger and we suffer. It's time to take our planet back!
DRXFoxXx you are they
@@iwashere2370 if you really knew who I am..... that would be the funniest thing you ever said.
DRXFoxXx who are you? An active protestor?
@@iwashere2370
When i woke up:
Left a career in high finance that was surrounded by materialism, politics, liars and cheaters
Pulled my teenage son out of the indoctrination of the education system
Gave up meat and materialism
Still spiritual but dropped my catholic faith
And more
Many in my generation are realising the delusion spoon fed us as we grew up.
We need more spirituality and less greed to fight the good war. Until people can no longer be bought, it will be a long war.
DRXFoxXx so who are you now, what do you do. Or is this it?
the question now is can we produce all this food the proper way and not have it cost 10x as much. Most people are struggling these days with living expenses.
States with large feedlots for cattle have banned the flight of drones over the feedlots. Texas and California are 2.
I believe Tedx was set up to monitor the resistance by collecting its data, for its finale.
Yeah, I was wondering the same.
This is American style agri-industry he’s talking about, here in the EU we have regulations against most of these kind of practices.
It is sad where we have been led in our effort to find food and feed our families. It is time to step off the trail being set for us and support our Local Farmers, teach our children about food and how to grow it sustainably and take back our health. It will not be easy, but definitely our lives depend on it.
Thank you Sheri. There is so much inspiration right in our own neighborhoods. We can do this.
So much for civilisation! I do recall being stunned some years ago watching a well-known movie about the life of African bushmen. Although living in a tough environment they only seemed to spend on average half a day 'working' ie: searching out and preparing food.
Bryt25
And they had no possessions, since relationships within the community defined their self worth. That may be a long way off for We Americans...
Sadly, this is just the tip of the tip of the iceberg...