{"id":284,"date":"2011-05-03T15:47:05","date_gmt":"2011-05-03T19:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/11-year-old-is-onto-monsanto-and-how-to-fix-the-food-system.html"},"modified":"2011-05-03T15:47:05","modified_gmt":"2011-05-03T19:47:05","slug":"11-year-old-is-onto-monsanto-and-how-to-fix-the-food-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/11-year-old-is-onto-monsanto-and-how-to-fix-the-food-system.html","title":{"rendered":"11 year old is onto Monsanto and how to fix the food system"},"content":{"rendered":"The &#8220;dark side of the industrialized food system.&#8221;\nas related (accurately) by\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=F7Id9caYw-Y\">\nBirke Baehr<\/a>\nat\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=F7Id9caYw-Y\">\nTED<small><sup>x<\/sup><\/small>NextGeneration Asheville.<\/a>\n<blockquote>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=F7Id9caYw-Y\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" border=0 src=\"http:\/\/i3.ytimg.com\/vi\/F7Id9caYw-Y\/default.jpg\"><\/a>\nConventional farmers use chemical fertilizers made from fossil fuels.\nThen they mess with the dirt to make the plants grow.\nThey do this because they&#8217;ve stripped the soil from all nutrients\nfrom growing the same crop over and over again.\nNext more harmful chemicals are sprayed on fruits and vegetables.\nLike pesticides and herbicides to kill weeds and bugs.\nWhen it rains, these chemicals seep into the ground,\nor rise into our waterways, poisoning our water, too.\n<\/blockquote>\nHis personal goal:\n<blockquote>\nA while back, I wanted to be an NFL footall player.\n<br>\nI decided I&#8217;d rather be an organic farmer instead.\n<br>\n[applause]\n<br>\nThat way I can have a greater impact on the world.\n<\/blockquote>\nHe&#8217;s got a turn of phrase:\n<blockquote>\nWe can either pay the farmer, or we can pay the hospital.\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/F7Id9caYw-Y\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p>\n-jsq\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The &#8220;dark side of the industrialized food system.&#8221; as related (accurately) by Birke Baehr at TEDxNextGeneration Asheville. 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