In this video, 11-year-old Birke Baehr talks about "What's Wrong With Our Food System" at the Aug. 28 TEDxNextGenerationAsheville multimedia conference at the Orange Peel in downtown Asheville. Since the video was posted to YouTube on Sept. 23, it's already racked up over 77,450 views.
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83 thousand and counting at this point.
By Piffy!
09/30/2010
Congrats, Birke!
MX published the text to his talk a few weeks ago.
Kids making a difference...
By Edgy Mama
09/30/2010
Well, the good news is the kid made it to the front page of hugely popular site Reddit.
http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/dkz7y/11yearold_kid_enumerates_the_reasons_why_the_us/
The bad news is he's taking somewhat of a beating.
By Redditor
09/30/2010
thanks for the link, Redditor. Interesting to see allthe GMO apologists making numerous inaccurate claims in that theread, such as "GMO is the only thing that can feed a starving world'.
This, of course, is demonstrably false, as the only real reason for any food shortages is geo-politics and not an actual LACKING of food.
Birke must be making osme good points if the mad food scientists have to attack him.
Also, the video is now well over 112 thousand views. kinda cool.
By Piffy!
09/30/2010
146,000!~
By MicahMack76
10/01/2010