Al G Smith

Here’s a young man (Birke Baehr) who has got the message about what is wrong with our food system, and what we can do to improve it. He is also at an age (11 years) that is early enough to mean he could make a real difference… Let’s hope he is not alone in his generation in being a confident young person who may already be ‘enlightened’ enough to start to ameliorate the ‘sins of the fathers‘!

This clear-cut and confidently delivered presentation, at one of the acclaimed TED events, comes from a youngster at a time when the ’system’ is steadily re-inforcing and consolidating the vice-like grip on the food chain already exhibited by the big agricultural, GMO and agro-chemical suppliers (such as Monsanto)… through changes and modifications in US national and global food laws and impositions that pave the way for future exploitation, and reduction in choice for the consumer as small farmers and food producers get squeezed out of existence.

Whilst it is inspiring to hear a youngster speak with such determination and clarity of vision, the ‘dark forces’ undoubtedly have the upper-hand at this time… let’s hope that by the time he is old enough to fulfil his dream, there is still a genuine ‘organic’ movement that survives, and that has not already been dismantled and/or adulterated by genetically modified ’seeds of doom’!

Only time will tell if the new generation employ more sense than the old, and if the groundswell of opinion will lead to a return to our small farms surviving and producing more real food, and safer products on the supermarket shelves: