I guess it's impressive, but just because an eleven-year old says it doesn't make me want to accept the message. The age is just a gimmick, and I'm not going to fall for it. It's too bad, because I agree with him in some ways, but his speech and gestures seem contrived and rehearsed.
@Permanomics That's because the kids are learning from a somewhat untainted source.. i.e. the internet. Growing up, We didn't have the access to this information. I have been studying it though since this kid was born. Some of us elders are learning now too. :) Sadly, much of the information is being scrubbed and the algorithms are being changed to limit the selections of alternative linking. Luckily, I see a new round of uploading but it is harder to find now. I awoke by accident
they can keep trying to inhibit the flow of ideas for the 21st century, but the new generations are planning something big for the future, and it involves each of us designing our own economy.
I am not even in my mid 20's yet and I am almost done with law school, after this I will start a 501(c)3 nonprofit around permaculture and become exempt from property and income tax. We will have our free markets whether they like it or not. Young people are too smart now
he is SO right on every level....people have NO idea where their food even comes from....it's a very sad society we live in...BUT...not all is doomed....we have this little guy and my daughter who's been on this education lecture for a long time....changing the world...one person at a time...wonderful
@j3s0n seriously? he's 11 and had to memorize all that, and was probably ridiculously nervous. he did better than 99% of adults would do in the same situation
"it seems to me that we can either pay the farmer, or pay the hospital". Really? It SEEMS TO YOU, an 11 yr old boy, that the long term results of your actions have health consequences in 30 yrs? Or more likely it seemed like that to your parents and the adult scriptwriters.
Haha did his hippie homeschooling parents put him up to this? He's obviously reading from a script. What 11 yr old kid waxes lyrical about corporations marketing to kids, confined animal feeding operations, and studies about liver toxicity in rats? Using kids to pander to liberal causes is no different than Monstanto using kids to sell their products on TV.
@therealsoyboy Why is this a "liberal" or "hippie" cause? It's just food man! You don't have to associate your politics here with the stuff you put in your body...
@macchef01 Criticize an 11 year old boy that had the guts enough to stand in front of an audience, instead of criticizing what he's talking about....pretty lower life form of you, IMO
Folks, this is what homeschooling leads to. Kids that know about something besides Justin Beiber and the Kardashians, and how to roll a joint and use date rape drugs.
@babybirdhome - Actually public and private school kids do this as well. It starts with parents that give a shit, put in the time, work and nurture interest. And, others the kids meet along their travels in life that inspire them (teachers, their peers, family, friends, those in the community). Not all parents can home school. No one institutional entity works for everyone, as our brains are all wired in a unique way. Please dont snub. It doesnt help our future generations.
@babybirdhome ha... how about this is what educating yourself does! If his parents didn't care, he wouldn't know any of this stuff. Nothing against home schooling, but some of us have to work... just cause I have a job and my daughter goes to public school doesn't mean i pay for cable or have any channels on my television. Home schooled kids can watch tv just like public school kids... His parents are just more awake and educated about certain things than most people
I haven't looked into this at all, but I assume that not all genetically modified food causes cancer. Plants evolve over time in nature, and all scientists are doing is making them evolve in a way that would benefit us. Obviously some mutations could be bad for us, but that doesn't mean they all are. His example of corn being fed to lab rats was very specific, and there could easily be more common strains of corn that don't have this effect.
@britishnickk - I understand what you are saying. However the Hybridization of plants, which we were using thousands of years before Genetic Modification, allowed organisms to crossbreed in a way that nature allows. Never in that huge amount of time has nature evolved an edible plant to have Bt pesticide in it. Not in heirloom plants or hybrid. Plus GMO crops damage the landscape because of monoculturing. In nature, diversity and complexity reigns.
Criticize an 11 year old boy that had the guts enough to stand in front of an audience, instead of criticizing what he's talking about....pretty lower life form of you, IMO
FANTASTIC! I will email this out to every public school in our area. Great job! You are an awesome guy, keep up the great work! VOTE FOR RON PAUL or we will have no FREEDOM at all!
@heathengrafix Actually while i support your freedom to vote for whomever you want, Ron Paul would not do anything to help our fight against GMOs. He is for deregulation of companies such as Monsanto. There would be absolutely no rules whatsoever governing the production and sale of gmos seeds.
@505rainasaul I ain't pro or con Ron Paul...just saying...it is GOVERNMENT REGULATIONS that allow companies like Monsanto, ADM, BIG Pharm, GE and the other large multinational corporations...acting in their own self interest...WHICH they are legally supposed to do...for their SHARHOLDERS. The real problem...is WE elect IDIOTS to represent us...
The problem is this company is not only mainstreaming and buying out the USDA they are suing local farmers in many states. They use intimidation and sterilize seeds so they can expand their 70% monopoly. They are trying to kill the small farmer.
Good stuff...but take another look at GMO...I ain't advocating cloning sheep and people, but if you can add a gene from BT (look it up) into a food crop and cut down on pesticides and help a starving person in Africa...I say modify it! It won't hurt you...Honest...sometimes the other side lies too...just ask Rachael Carson!
@atnguy The problem becomes where do you draw the line and Monsanto crossed it when they claimed ownership of said seed and everything it pollinates. Feeding the starving is the hook. Billions from third world governments is the goal. You should not be able to pattent a living thing and I should be able to save a seed from food I bought and grow what I need instead of having to come to you FOREVER!
@cam3xl I will never defend anti-capitalistic or monopolistic practices, so if it seems like I am defending Monsanto I am not. I assume they are behaving similarly to Archer Daniels Midland, and if so...screw 'em! But lets find away allow the Third World children to have a fighting chance at life. Agreed?
@atnguy Agreed, just have to find some people rightous enough to do it for the right reasons. The good people dont have the resource and the resourced people usually up to no good. I'm trying to reconcile it to brother.
beleives EVERYTHING the gov says, feeds there child conventional crap & believes "drugs are bad" and does not research otherwise deserves to get shoot, cuz not only are they killing children by allowing corp greed run amoke they are b!ching about the wrong thing doing it over & over expecting the gov to fix it I can tell you from personal exp & yrs of research the gov doesnt give a dam about you, we the people need to fix it, get off our lazy aurses and do something about it
YES SIRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR its sad this little boy knows this as its not his job to do so, and if more people understood were basically tools of profit we could fix this so kids could be kids and wouldnt have to speak out like this and waste there childhood(not that this IS a waste but that he has to be grown and make adult decisions when he shouldn't have to but be playing in the sun, and anybody that says there for the children blah blah blah and still takes there child to the doctor
@doctorwilhelm I'm working on my Ph.D. in molecular and cellular biology at an Ivy league university. Please enlighten me as to where, in your vast knowledge of the subject, your response is based.
Birke Baehr and many others like him would make it possible for humanity to become a type one civilization and beyond based upon Michio Kaku, Nikolai Kardashev, and Robert Zubrin! He spoke the truth about how our food has been modified and altered to the point of it becoming an abomination! We are what we eat and if we eat such foods we could become sicker than ever and death would knock on our doors much sooner than we want! Birke Baehr opened my eyes and I'm rethinking my food consumption.
This is amazing I just learned so much from him and Im older. Like wow! I learned something and I was Very entertained with what he was talking about! extremely Amazing!
Everything he said was so true. Let's stop poisoning ourselves and our kids. Govt's and big corporations have had it their way too long. Change the world one kid, one adult, one shopping trolley at a time. Grow local, buy local.
This is awesome! Monsanto is evil and they own Obama. His head of the USDA, Tom Vilsack, has approved more GMOs than at any other time. GMOs are dangerous and will be responsible for millions of cancer deaths and degenerative diseases.
Join the fight! Millions Against Monsanto and The Organic Consumers Association will put you on their email list so you can fight with one mouse click. It's free and easy.
What an amazing presentation for such a young boy! I know he was helped but I believe he still knew what he was saying and understood it. As for all of the negative comments, those are the people who don't want to hear that they need to change their lives to live healthier and better. Wake up and smell the roses.
there is no possible, conceivable way that this kid wrote this presentation. It was written by an adult and the kid just practiced and recited it, to make it "amazing" and get more hits on youtube. it's ironic because the kid starts off by talking about all the tricks advertisers use to get people to eat unhealthy foods, while having a kid read this speech is just another gimmic to get this vid to go viral. i guess it worked.
Wow reading through a lot of the comments made about this very bright young man is to say the least disappointing, so very negative and has no place here. Opinions like those I suggest are to be kept to ones self, just plain nasty I say. I think this young man did a fantastic job "Bravo!" Hopefully more of our young people will step up to the plate like this fellow and our world will reap the benefits in the near future :D
I know he was home schooled and did a great job, on the presentation. I just wish his parents would have educated him on veganism. It truly is the best choice for health, the environment, and the ethical treatment of animals. I am sure if he saw a cow get slaughtered for no other reason than a learned taste for meat, and this poor cows life would be taken just so he can have a greasy hamburger that over a lifetime will put him in the hospital. I know he would say NO to the cow flesh!
Can't believe there are people here attacking an eleven year old boy for oversimplification and lack of research. Shame on you. It's a 5 minute persuasive speech. And, he's ELEVEN, not the President of the United States.
1970 Dr. Borlaug earned The Presidential Medal of Freedom, Congressional Gold Medal, AND the Nobel Peace Prize for his wheat-hybridizing accomplishments. He helped to solve world hunger with a high-yeild wheat that we all consume today. Problem is, it was assumed if you mate to varieties of Wheat you still get Wheat. Modern analyses of proteins show that while 95% of the Proteins expressed from each parent are present in the offspring, 5% are found in neither parent!
This is why I am Gluten Intolerant- The upside to Hybridization is the 5 Hour Energy Shot/Red Bull market can mask your gluten allergies until your hospitalized and then Obamacare can help you die. The fish tomato is a good analogy.
@4141440 - Thank you. It really comes down to learning about genetics and evolution. If natural selection favored Bt toxin in corn (considering how plants can cross-pollinate in nature and have been since the beginning of time), wouldnt it have happened already? But then, a plant that poisonous might not get its genes passed on for future generations...its an edible plant...pests (while they eat it), still pass on the pollen to help the plant continue growing...even somewhere else.
@skeletonmom If you read "The Omnivore's Dilemma" you would find that corn's success comes from it's dependency on mankind. If mankind did not cultivate corn it would die within a few years. the fact that humans have put the Bt genome inside corn is exactly what corn cast it's lot in-being used for more sources than food and being resilient. I am not saying that I agree with genetic engineering only stating that it wouldn't have happened because corn would be dead left to nature.
@bluemoongirl2007 - Great book! I would say that corn did not "cast its lot"...since evolution (whether natural selection in nature or what we artificially do to it) is not really a change that happens because the species undergoing that change is sentient enough to make that decision...its genetics on a cellular level. Many species die because either we or the environment didnt facilitate its furthur growth. Unfortunate that it happens-but, some species become dead ends.
@skeletonmom - And, the book was right...corn did depend on humans to survive because we were the thing that wound up depending on it to survive and it found a host willing to propagate it. The wild corn probably would do a good job by itself if indegenous people still used it...however, corn has been hybridized and it now many domestic varieties that dont grow in the wild at all...but might still cross pollinate in nature in a field. Hybridized corn is different from GM.
@skeletonmom - As hybridized corn might still cross pollinate with other species of wild or domestic corn in a natural setting...if it will take to seed...and hybridized plants dont generally produce the same offspring as say heirloom (old world) varieties. If they do produce, its usually not true to the original plant they were hybridized from...but, nature tries to revert back to its original heirloom status. Hybrid plants/seeds dont product seeds/pollen that can be reused.
@skeletonmom - Other than the concern that GMO might contain toxins or other errant genetic material that is hazardous to human/animal consumption-many farmers bristle at the fact that GM crops (corn/soybeans/rice) touted for humanitarian food use dont allow farmers in hunger nations to reuse the seed. GM seeds are patented and must be purchased EVERY year. Heirloom seeds are bought once and used for thousands of years if propagated well.
@skeletonmom - Farmers who get into the GM seed business (some in this country-more in 3rd world) have been financially broken because they took on the investment of GM seed/Roundup weedkiller (that doubles as a plant food...the fact that a killer pesticide to ALL species of plants except the GMO its sprayed on is creepy) instead of sticking with heirloom seeds that are purchased once, grown, food harvested/eaten and seeds from the fruit/vegges saved/planted in successive years.
@skeletonmom - The higher yeild touted by GM seed only lasts 5 years (if planting conditions and weather is right-ALL crops GM or otherwise are victims of weather if it goes bad) and then the yeild starts to decrease. Soil depletion with GM is a huge issue. Synthetic fertilizers only bring back some of the nutrients...nothing beats animal poo and natural erosion compost as ideal fertilizer...as we see here in rural Lancaster Country, PA. East coasts most nutrient rich soil.
@skeletonmom - Then the issue of monoculture. As environments for soil, seed, plants and feeding a population depend on diversity-plants companion planted, those plants that either bring in pollinators (bees, birds, etc), deflect pests or give them something else to feed on (companion planting offers a plant for pests to feed on/not eat your food crop-then lures in life forms that eat the pest as food/lessens the need for possibly hazardous synthetic herbicide) or add to soil
@skeletonmom - enrichment when planted or when tilled under and composed after season. GM crops, with miles of the same plant in a field do not allow for this. Leading some farmers and scientists to wonder if it is impacting the food supply of certain species (honeybee, etc) that forage in a certain square mile radius....ok, in a few paragraphs, I lightly touches on how HUGE the plant world is-and complex the growing process. Industrial growing usually misses much of it.
@skeletonmom - Industrial growing is only looking for higher yield, most profit return and doesnt plan ahead for factors like soil erosion that will affect the nutrition of its crop, decimation of indegenous species by monoculture, the decimation of heirloom farming/farmers, the decimation of small business in a market geared for huge agribus., the patenting of seeds that affect a food staple/supply for large populations, etc. Very real problems with GM business.
What he doesn't mention however is that genetically engineering crops help prevent waste by minimizing stalk length. Also, if you want good produce- simply check the label for the city of origin in retrospect to yours, and buy free range. Another point to make is that everyone is glorifying the benefits of home schooling; though I have no problem with it, I can't imagine (unless taught by a qualified tutor) that the child would be getting the same learning and social skills.
Nothin` beats that good òl Prussian based education system. A system designed to dumb down the masses, remove critical thinking and replace that with blind, unquestioning obedience. Yeah, why home school your child when you can have some morons do it for you?
@TheSilvertones He suggests that by splicing a segment of fish DNA into a tomato seed would give it properties of a fish, which is a horrible oversimplification. The idea behind the "fish tomato" was to produce a tomato that would be resistant to frost so it could be grown and transported in colder weather without damage to the flesh, and was done by infecting the tomato with a bacteria containing the anti-freeze transgene isolated from the winter flounder in the form of recombinant DNA.
@TheSilvertones Regardless of how he tries to explain it, that product was never commercially released. There's nothing inherently wrong with genetic modification of plants, considering that they can be used to feed more people on less farmland. The issue is with how the corporations that own the patents to the seeds handle them.
Long story short, do the research before you try to call someone out on this shit.
@VirusVescichetta ...and this is your idea of proof? Sounds more like opinion to me. If we're gonna talk opinion, you say "There's nothing inherently wrong with genetic modification of plants", I say there's nothing right about the genetic modification of plants.
please present proof, links, references, something to support your claim or don't bother to reply because I'm not interested in your opinion, I want explicit knowledge not implicit.
Have some links and learn some basic biology. I'll admit that it's personal belief that there's nothing inherently wrong with genetic engineering. The rest is fact.
2:21 I've heard this bit of hype before, truth is all crops(no matter the rotation strip soil of some nutrients. Yes crop rotation is good management, no it doesn't magically build to the soil. You need to add nutrients, be it chemical or organic type. Simple soil science 101. One last thing, GMO's pesticides and what not are sustaining a cheap food policy. If you want change, be prepared to accept all the changes that come with it.
@2pbig May I ask why not? I know that nutrients occur in the soil naturally. However, they are not of abundance in any normal soil. Crop and other plants gather nutrients from the ground as they grow. When the crop is harvested, you take away a portion of the nutrients with the crop. Sure some nutrients are put back in when the rest of the plant rots in the field, but that only acounts for a fraction of what was removed. I'm up to debating this in a mature fashion if you are mate. ;)
@ghenry85 Okay, you claim that only a fraction of the nutrients that are taken from the soil by the organism are deposited back into it. Why are there still forests in the world, then? By your logic, wouldn't there be no nutritients in the soil after millions years of cyclical life? Btw, yes I'm game for a mature debate :P
@2pbig That's easy, your plants/animals in the forest cycle the nutrients over time. And the nutrient cycle can be considered closed loop. I've sent you a PM of the rest of my answer.
You know, this is nice and idealistic. Also, irresponsible to advertise.
Purely organic farming can feed 2 billion people. And that's after destroying all of earths eco systems.
What are you gonna tell the other five billion? "Sorry, but we're green so we can't feed you"?
keinve2 20 hours ago
I guess it's impressive, but just because an eleven-year old says it doesn't make me want to accept the message. The age is just a gimmick, and I'm not going to fall for it. It's too bad, because I agree with him in some ways, but his speech and gestures seem contrived and rehearsed.
holdenc96 1 day ago
i am sad that the main message ppl seem to be getting from this is, homeschooling ... instead of fighting these gmos ...
Yavin1v 5 days ago
And it comes out of the mouth of a babe. Tell that kid he deserves the biggest thumbs up!!!!! Hope he becomes a good farmer.
monte4utube 5 days ago
oh my god..he's got all those words bottles up in his brain. He's always about to forget the next word.
ChizuKukii 1 week ago
Regarding some of the comments praising home schooling,,,,,,,,,,,,,remember its only as good as the teacher in the home and what is being taught.
VincenzoPickatelli 1 week ago
OWNED!!!
SpamAnn 2 weeks ago
Smart, healthy, homeschooled.
braingamer47 2 weeks ago
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Overrated bullshit
maartn21 2 weeks ago
@maartn21 Not as overrated as watching you ski down a fucking mountain!
TheSilverGuild 2 weeks ago
I'm homeschooling my kids
djfacade 2 weeks ago 2
Ya gotta love this kid.
wakeupsheople 2 weeks ago
Bravo little man!
TheTwinsdelight 2 weeks ago
Monsanto Boy Billy Gates must have been pissed off by this kid.
lsl70 2 weeks ago
the audience is clapping but most of them are going to go home and make a big pizza or something like that
12triggerman 2 weeks ago
41 monsanto workers dislike the kid.
tousmane14 2 weeks ago
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Permanomics 2 weeks ago 2
these days are backwards... the children have become the elders
Permanomics 2 weeks ago 2
@Permanomics That's because the kids are learning from a somewhat untainted source.. i.e. the internet. Growing up, We didn't have the access to this information. I have been studying it though since this kid was born. Some of us elders are learning now too. :) Sadly, much of the information is being scrubbed and the algorithms are being changed to limit the selections of alternative linking. Luckily, I see a new round of uploading but it is harder to find now. I awoke by accident
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Permanomics 2 weeks ago
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@godbluffvdgg
they can keep trying to inhibit the flow of ideas for the 21st century, but the new generations are planning something big for the future, and it involves each of us designing our own economy.
I am not even in my mid 20's yet and I am almost done with law school, after this I will start a 501(c)3 nonprofit around permaculture and become exempt from property and income tax. We will have our free markets whether they like it or not. Young people are too smart now
Permanomics 2 weeks ago
@godbluffvdgg at least you are awake!
nxtlvl197979 1 week ago
Those guys who laughed CAFOs were the best part of that video.
ImmaOnDaInternetz 2 weeks ago
A 40 year old brain in an 11 year old head,simply magic you carry this on young man it is very inspiring. definitely a thumbs up from me (an old man)
1970sSupertramp 3 weeks ago
he is SO right on every level....people have NO idea where their food even comes from....it's a very sad society we live in...BUT...not all is doomed....we have this little guy and my daughter who's been on this education lecture for a long time....changing the world...one person at a time...wonderful
HighFiveMoms 3 weeks ago
Bravo!
TKO2 3 weeks ago
Haha, 39 people are genetically-engineered corn.
stchaltin 3 weeks ago
This kid knows what's going on.
Pwnzor729 3 weeks ago
Great job Birke!! You are spot on! Keep up the good fight.
craftilady 3 weeks ago
HELLO Berk Bear. YOU GO boy!!!! Thank you for making this video.
OCButterfly99 3 weeks ago
Good speech, bad presentation skills.
But he's 11 so damn good job (Y)
j3s0n 4 weeks ago
@j3s0n seriously? he's 11 and had to memorize all that, and was probably ridiculously nervous. he did better than 99% of adults would do in the same situation
BobbySoFamous 4 weeks ago
Does anyone have a transcript of this? Do I really need to see a talking head? Save my time and bandwidth, please.
KimoSully 4 weeks ago
"it seems to me that we can either pay the farmer, or pay the hospital". Really? It SEEMS TO YOU, an 11 yr old boy, that the long term results of your actions have health consequences in 30 yrs? Or more likely it seemed like that to your parents and the adult scriptwriters.
therealsoyboy 4 weeks ago
Haha did his hippie homeschooling parents put him up to this? He's obviously reading from a script. What 11 yr old kid waxes lyrical about corporations marketing to kids, confined animal feeding operations, and studies about liver toxicity in rats? Using kids to pander to liberal causes is no different than Monstanto using kids to sell their products on TV.
therealsoyboy 4 weeks ago
@therealsoyboy Why is this a "liberal" or "hippie" cause? It's just food man! You don't have to associate your politics here with the stuff you put in your body...
Pwnzor729 3 weeks ago
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NarcissistsDie 4 weeks ago
I have hope in the future now! what an amazing kid!!! he's AWESOME! brilliant.
strangecookie 4 weeks ago
This is a kid that can remember script and regurgitate it with little to no sentiment or emotional value. He's running for the GOP in 2038
macchef01 1 month ago
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@macchef01 Criticize an 11 year old boy that had the guts enough to stand in front of an audience, instead of criticizing what he's talking about....pretty lower life form of you, IMO
InspireReality73 4 weeks ago
WHAT A LEGEND!
arwenevenstar123 1 month ago
I almost cried
Sacramento916ers 1 month ago
Folks, this is what homeschooling leads to. Kids that know about something besides Justin Beiber and the Kardashians, and how to roll a joint and use date rape drugs.
babybirdhome 1 month ago 31
@babybirdhome - Actually public and private school kids do this as well. It starts with parents that give a shit, put in the time, work and nurture interest. And, others the kids meet along their travels in life that inspire them (teachers, their peers, family, friends, those in the community). Not all parents can home school. No one institutional entity works for everyone, as our brains are all wired in a unique way. Please dont snub. It doesnt help our future generations.
skeletonmom 4 weeks ago 2
@babybirdhome It also leads to a life alone!
S1D3W1ND3R015 4 weeks ago
@babybirdhome ha... how about this is what educating yourself does! If his parents didn't care, he wouldn't know any of this stuff. Nothing against home schooling, but some of us have to work... just cause I have a job and my daughter goes to public school doesn't mean i pay for cable or have any channels on my television. Home schooled kids can watch tv just like public school kids... His parents are just more awake and educated about certain things than most people
nxtlvl197979 1 week ago
This kid is smart
uDaeth 1 month ago
I haven't looked into this at all, but I assume that not all genetically modified food causes cancer. Plants evolve over time in nature, and all scientists are doing is making them evolve in a way that would benefit us. Obviously some mutations could be bad for us, but that doesn't mean they all are. His example of corn being fed to lab rats was very specific, and there could easily be more common strains of corn that don't have this effect.
All this aside, that kid is a good speaker.
britishnickk 1 month ago
@britishnickk - I understand what you are saying. However the Hybridization of plants, which we were using thousands of years before Genetic Modification, allowed organisms to crossbreed in a way that nature allows. Never in that huge amount of time has nature evolved an edible plant to have Bt pesticide in it. Not in heirloom plants or hybrid. Plus GMO crops damage the landscape because of monoculturing. In nature, diversity and complexity reigns.
skeletonmom 4 weeks ago
He probably got paid to do this! Even me who loves Burger King would do this for maybe 100 or 200 bucks!
S1D3W1ND3R015 1 month ago
@S1D3W1ND3R015
Criticize an 11 year old boy that had the guts enough to stand in front of an audience, instead of criticizing what he's talking about....pretty lower life form of you, IMO
InspireReality73 4 weeks ago
@InspireReality73 Fuck you asshole! I was saying I would fucking do that for money! Cunt...
S1D3W1ND3R015 4 weeks ago
@S1D3W1ND3R015
Oh, the maturity that is being shown by you is just simply inspiring! That 11 yr old obviously has better behavior skills than you do.
InspireReality73 4 weeks ago
@InspireReality73 Sorry, I don't talk to cunts!
S1D3W1ND3R015 4 weeks ago
God damnit
marklenington 1 month ago
NFL Player > Organic Farmer. The kid is misguided.
KatoomDriver17 1 month ago
Preach Son! Grow your own cleanse your system. LIVE!
cam3xl 1 month ago
FANTASTIC! I will email this out to every public school in our area. Great job! You are an awesome guy, keep up the great work! VOTE FOR RON PAUL or we will have no FREEDOM at all!
heathengrafix 1 month ago
@heathengrafix Actually while i support your freedom to vote for whomever you want, Ron Paul would not do anything to help our fight against GMOs. He is for deregulation of companies such as Monsanto. There would be absolutely no rules whatsoever governing the production and sale of gmos seeds.
505rainasaul 1 month ago
@505rainasaul I ain't pro or con Ron Paul...just saying...it is GOVERNMENT REGULATIONS that allow companies like Monsanto, ADM, BIG Pharm, GE and the other large multinational corporations...acting in their own self interest...WHICH they are legally supposed to do...for their SHARHOLDERS. The real problem...is WE elect IDIOTS to represent us...
atnguy 3 weeks ago
The problem is this company is not only mainstreaming and buying out the USDA they are suing local farmers in many states. They use intimidation and sterilize seeds so they can expand their 70% monopoly. They are trying to kill the small farmer.
prox2u 1 month ago
@prox2u 90% monopoly now.... :-(
thewhistler 4 weeks ago
@prox2u - Google Percy Schmeiser. He fought Monsanto for 10 years...and won! Now gives talks all over the world. So, there is hope.
skeletonmom 4 weeks ago
Pay the farmer, or pay the hospital.
You go, little man!
kennydelmar 1 month ago 12
Good stuff...but take another look at GMO...I ain't advocating cloning sheep and people, but if you can add a gene from BT (look it up) into a food crop and cut down on pesticides and help a starving person in Africa...I say modify it! It won't hurt you...Honest...sometimes the other side lies too...just ask Rachael Carson!
atnguy 1 month ago
@atnguy The problem becomes where do you draw the line and Monsanto crossed it when they claimed ownership of said seed and everything it pollinates. Feeding the starving is the hook. Billions from third world governments is the goal. You should not be able to pattent a living thing and I should be able to save a seed from food I bought and grow what I need instead of having to come to you FOREVER!
cam3xl 1 month ago
@cam3xl I will never defend anti-capitalistic or monopolistic practices, so if it seems like I am defending Monsanto I am not. I assume they are behaving similarly to Archer Daniels Midland, and if so...screw 'em! But lets find away allow the Third World children to have a fighting chance at life. Agreed?
atnguy 1 month ago
@atnguy Agreed, just have to find some people rightous enough to do it for the right reasons. The good people dont have the resource and the resourced people usually up to no good. I'm trying to reconcile it to brother.
cam3xl 4 weeks ago
Why cant he be an organic NFL farmer?
jefferoo88 1 month ago 2
Sounds a bit scripted but its still the truth.
TheMAKOTeam 1 month ago
@TheMAKOTeam
Well, yeah...
It's called "a speech".
clintatk 1 month ago 2
Bravo my little man!!!
NuttyCookie333 1 month ago
What a great kid!
kimberly3d 1 month ago
This boy is awesome! Good for him, we all need to catch up with him :)
LVGeneration 1 month ago in playlist resources
Sure, an eleven year old says this stuff without coaching. Screw Monsanto
6883a927 1 month ago
much love to you!!!!!!
Kobeistite 1 month ago
beleives EVERYTHING the gov says, feeds there child conventional crap & believes "drugs are bad" and does not research otherwise deserves to get shoot, cuz not only are they killing children by allowing corp greed run amoke they are b!ching about the wrong thing doing it over & over expecting the gov to fix it I can tell you from personal exp & yrs of research the gov doesnt give a dam about you, we the people need to fix it, get off our lazy aurses and do something about it
cgzare1337 1 month ago
YES SIRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR its sad this little boy knows this as its not his job to do so, and if more people understood were basically tools of profit we could fix this so kids could be kids and wouldnt have to speak out like this and waste there childhood(not that this IS a waste but that he has to be grown and make adult decisions when he shouldn't have to but be playing in the sun, and anybody that says there for the children blah blah blah and still takes there child to the doctor
cgzare1337 1 month ago
What a tool. He is ruining lives. KIDS SHOULD EAT FROSTED FLAKES.
MashHacker 1 month ago
Kid needs to learn more science.
llonever 1 month ago
I went to cute girl in bikini shooting rifle too... but she should work out. Or eat some modified corn...
GotScout 1 month ago 2
"and don't even get me started on...." huh... what?.... shut up.... say that again slowly... I dare you.
GotScout 1 month ago
@GotScout Confined Animal Feeding Opperations....CAFO
KarlaYojana 1 month ago
He needs to google "STOP MOVING YOUR ARMS"...
GotScout 1 month ago
fake
nauoooo 1 month ago
I stopped watching this video to watch "Cute girl in bikini shoots big rifle"
TryppingWins 1 month ago
@TryppingWins that's what it was designed to do - how is it that a cute girl shooting a big rifle in a bikini is a "related video"....?
dqk648nw 1 month ago
"we can pay the farmer or we can pay the hospital" BRAVO!!!!!
WesleyGW 1 month ago
Love it!
AlfiePotts 1 month ago
Thats what i'm talking about! Way to go!!
Mi5tify 1 month ago
BRILLIANT KID, BRILLIANT! share*
Jowzify 1 month ago
Study that shows GMOs cause cancer or it didn't happen k thx
wzrlygd 1 month ago
@wzrlygd lol you're absolutely uneducated
doctorwilhelm 1 month ago
@doctorwilhelm I'm working on my Ph.D. in molecular and cellular biology at an Ivy league university. Please enlighten me as to where, in your vast knowledge of the subject, your response is based.
wzrlygd 5 days ago
pay organic farmer or pay the hospital. great line, kid.
ReneODeay 1 month ago
What a fantastic speech!! Berke you're an inspiration.
LOVEplanetbodylife 1 month ago
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Birke Baehr and many others like him would make it possible for humanity to become a type one civilization and beyond based upon Michio Kaku, Nikolai Kardashev, and Robert Zubrin! He spoke the truth about how our food has been modified and altered to the point of it becoming an abomination! We are what we eat and if we eat such foods we could become sicker than ever and death would knock on our doors much sooner than we want! Birke Baehr opened my eyes and I'm rethinking my food consumption.
VerseInfinitum 1 month ago
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VerseInfinitum 1 month ago
great video
roblesterfilms 1 month ago in playlist Verse Infinitum's Human Progress Videos
so...what to do with this info? either you sit down and wow yourself on it,
or,
you can choose to DO/ACT upon it!
SPREAD it, share it like crazy!
nurture these brilliant ideas!
if you said this ONE small kid have created a Change, then why don't YOU also (as more older adults)??
Each of us play a part in Change, if you CHOOSE to.
BE part of the Change!
nikiwonoto 1 month ago
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StanzelMafia 1 month ago
@nikiwonoto Choice controls corporations... don't buy... it goes away.
dmdfct 1 month ago
SMART kid!
esca8652 1 month ago
The force is strong with this one, I see...
CaptIkeFuzzBall 1 month ago 21
Any way to get this info out is a help as this kid says ..."you can either pay the farmer or pay the hospital" and the drug companies
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sammeadmore 1 month ago
I am so glad to see this kid still hitting goals!
sammeadmore 1 month ago
Very impressive, but I'm not sure where he's getting his info on GMOs - it's certainly not accurate. :(
mavissar1 1 month ago
This is amazing I just learned so much from him and Im older. Like wow! I learned something and I was Very entertained with what he was talking about! extremely Amazing!
jaylinadams101 1 month ago
well spoken, well rehearsed, and full of hope & promise. i can't wait until he fulfills his dream of becoming an organic farmer.
burningmanmike 1 month ago
Everything he said was so true. Let's stop poisoning ourselves and our kids. Govt's and big corporations have had it their way too long. Change the world one kid, one adult, one shopping trolley at a time. Grow local, buy local.
CastleGong 1 month ago
Love this boy! He's right on!
MariaTheGreat 1 month ago
To bad the FDA will put you in jail if you sell Home grown food on a large scale. They want to poison us. Keep looking kid you will find the truth.
davidsharp07 1 month ago 2
This is awesome! Monsanto is evil and they own Obama. His head of the USDA, Tom Vilsack, has approved more GMOs than at any other time. GMOs are dangerous and will be responsible for millions of cancer deaths and degenerative diseases.
Join the fight! Millions Against Monsanto and The Organic Consumers Association will put you on their email list so you can fight with one mouse click. It's free and easy.
untalt 1 month ago 11
What an amazing presentation for such a young boy! I know he was helped but I believe he still knew what he was saying and understood it. As for all of the negative comments, those are the people who don't want to hear that they need to change their lives to live healthier and better. Wake up and smell the roses.
truessenceful 1 month ago 3
monsanto came on here and disliked this 27 times.
ActNaturally8 1 month ago
ricky bobby hands
jfobes55 1 month ago
Holly cow.
edstar83 1 month ago
there is no possible, conceivable way that this kid wrote this presentation. It was written by an adult and the kid just practiced and recited it, to make it "amazing" and get more hits on youtube. it's ironic because the kid starts off by talking about all the tricks advertisers use to get people to eat unhealthy foods, while having a kid read this speech is just another gimmic to get this vid to go viral. i guess it worked.
jsaganski 1 month ago
I would be so proud if this was my son. Then I'd be like.. "Alright boy, you can talk the talk, but can you walk the walk?". God bless this dude.
smartbomb33 1 month ago
Wow reading through a lot of the comments made about this very bright young man is to say the least disappointing, so very negative and has no place here. Opinions like those I suggest are to be kept to ones self, just plain nasty I say. I think this young man did a fantastic job "Bravo!" Hopefully more of our young people will step up to the plate like this fellow and our world will reap the benefits in the near future :D
shortnsweet46 1 month ago
I know he was home schooled and did a great job, on the presentation. I just wish his parents would have educated him on veganism. It truly is the best choice for health, the environment, and the ethical treatment of animals. I am sure if he saw a cow get slaughtered for no other reason than a learned taste for meat, and this poor cows life would be taken just so he can have a greasy hamburger that over a lifetime will put him in the hospital. I know he would say NO to the cow flesh!
dmgstuff 1 month ago
Can't believe there are people here attacking an eleven year old boy for oversimplification and lack of research. Shame on you. It's a 5 minute persuasive speech. And, he's ELEVEN, not the President of the United States.
missdiamondlily 1 month ago
Awesome kid
Amazing presentation
Home schooled? It shows.
Keep on keeping on.
EarthElla 1 month ago
1970 Dr. Borlaug earned The Presidential Medal of Freedom, Congressional Gold Medal, AND the Nobel Peace Prize for his wheat-hybridizing accomplishments. He helped to solve world hunger with a high-yeild wheat that we all consume today. Problem is, it was assumed if you mate to varieties of Wheat you still get Wheat. Modern analyses of proteins show that while 95% of the Proteins expressed from each parent are present in the offspring, 5% are found in neither parent!
4141440 1 month ago
This is why I am Gluten Intolerant- The upside to Hybridization is the 5 Hour Energy Shot/Red Bull market can mask your gluten allergies until your hospitalized and then Obamacare can help you die. The fish tomato is a good analogy.
4141440 1 month ago
@4141440 - Thank you. It really comes down to learning about genetics and evolution. If natural selection favored Bt toxin in corn (considering how plants can cross-pollinate in nature and have been since the beginning of time), wouldnt it have happened already? But then, a plant that poisonous might not get its genes passed on for future generations...its an edible plant...pests (while they eat it), still pass on the pollen to help the plant continue growing...even somewhere else.
skeletonmom 4 weeks ago
@skeletonmom If you read "The Omnivore's Dilemma" you would find that corn's success comes from it's dependency on mankind. If mankind did not cultivate corn it would die within a few years. the fact that humans have put the Bt genome inside corn is exactly what corn cast it's lot in-being used for more sources than food and being resilient. I am not saying that I agree with genetic engineering only stating that it wouldn't have happened because corn would be dead left to nature.
bluemoongirl2007 3 weeks ago
@bluemoongirl2007 - Great book! I would say that corn did not "cast its lot"...since evolution (whether natural selection in nature or what we artificially do to it) is not really a change that happens because the species undergoing that change is sentient enough to make that decision...its genetics on a cellular level. Many species die because either we or the environment didnt facilitate its furthur growth. Unfortunate that it happens-but, some species become dead ends.
skeletonmom 3 weeks ago
@skeletonmom - And, the book was right...corn did depend on humans to survive because we were the thing that wound up depending on it to survive and it found a host willing to propagate it. The wild corn probably would do a good job by itself if indegenous people still used it...however, corn has been hybridized and it now many domestic varieties that dont grow in the wild at all...but might still cross pollinate in nature in a field. Hybridized corn is different from GM.
skeletonmom 3 weeks ago
@skeletonmom - As hybridized corn might still cross pollinate with other species of wild or domestic corn in a natural setting...if it will take to seed...and hybridized plants dont generally produce the same offspring as say heirloom (old world) varieties. If they do produce, its usually not true to the original plant they were hybridized from...but, nature tries to revert back to its original heirloom status. Hybrid plants/seeds dont product seeds/pollen that can be reused.
skeletonmom 3 weeks ago
@skeletonmom - Other than the concern that GMO might contain toxins or other errant genetic material that is hazardous to human/animal consumption-many farmers bristle at the fact that GM crops (corn/soybeans/rice) touted for humanitarian food use dont allow farmers in hunger nations to reuse the seed. GM seeds are patented and must be purchased EVERY year. Heirloom seeds are bought once and used for thousands of years if propagated well.
skeletonmom 3 weeks ago
@skeletonmom - Farmers who get into the GM seed business (some in this country-more in 3rd world) have been financially broken because they took on the investment of GM seed/Roundup weedkiller (that doubles as a plant food...the fact that a killer pesticide to ALL species of plants except the GMO its sprayed on is creepy) instead of sticking with heirloom seeds that are purchased once, grown, food harvested/eaten and seeds from the fruit/vegges saved/planted in successive years.
skeletonmom 3 weeks ago
@skeletonmom - The higher yeild touted by GM seed only lasts 5 years (if planting conditions and weather is right-ALL crops GM or otherwise are victims of weather if it goes bad) and then the yeild starts to decrease. Soil depletion with GM is a huge issue. Synthetic fertilizers only bring back some of the nutrients...nothing beats animal poo and natural erosion compost as ideal fertilizer...as we see here in rural Lancaster Country, PA. East coasts most nutrient rich soil.
skeletonmom 3 weeks ago
@skeletonmom - Then the issue of monoculture. As environments for soil, seed, plants and feeding a population depend on diversity-plants companion planted, those plants that either bring in pollinators (bees, birds, etc), deflect pests or give them something else to feed on (companion planting offers a plant for pests to feed on/not eat your food crop-then lures in life forms that eat the pest as food/lessens the need for possibly hazardous synthetic herbicide) or add to soil
skeletonmom 3 weeks ago
@skeletonmom - enrichment when planted or when tilled under and composed after season. GM crops, with miles of the same plant in a field do not allow for this. Leading some farmers and scientists to wonder if it is impacting the food supply of certain species (honeybee, etc) that forage in a certain square mile radius....ok, in a few paragraphs, I lightly touches on how HUGE the plant world is-and complex the growing process. Industrial growing usually misses much of it.
skeletonmom 3 weeks ago
@skeletonmom - Industrial growing is only looking for higher yield, most profit return and doesnt plan ahead for factors like soil erosion that will affect the nutrition of its crop, decimation of indegenous species by monoculture, the decimation of heirloom farming/farmers, the decimation of small business in a market geared for huge agribus., the patenting of seeds that affect a food staple/supply for large populations, etc. Very real problems with GM business.
skeletonmom 3 weeks ago
When I grow up I want to be just like him....and I'm 25.
jessiesanchez 1 month ago
What he doesn't mention however is that genetically engineering crops help prevent waste by minimizing stalk length. Also, if you want good produce- simply check the label for the city of origin in retrospect to yours, and buy free range. Another point to make is that everyone is glorifying the benefits of home schooling; though I have no problem with it, I can't imagine (unless taught by a qualified tutor) that the child would be getting the same learning and social skills.
FWALTSss 1 month ago
@FWALTSss
Nothin` beats that good òl Prussian based education system. A system designed to dumb down the masses, remove critical thinking and replace that with blind, unquestioning obedience. Yeah, why home school your child when you can have some morons do it for you?
TheSilvertones 1 month ago 2
Gotta love gross misrepresentations of genetic engineering.
VirusVescichetta 1 month ago
@VirusVescichetta Yeah? Prove it.
TheSilvertones 1 month ago
@TheSilvertones He suggests that by splicing a segment of fish DNA into a tomato seed would give it properties of a fish, which is a horrible oversimplification. The idea behind the "fish tomato" was to produce a tomato that would be resistant to frost so it could be grown and transported in colder weather without damage to the flesh, and was done by infecting the tomato with a bacteria containing the anti-freeze transgene isolated from the winter flounder in the form of recombinant DNA.
VirusVescichetta 1 month ago 3
@VirusVescichetta sounds delicious.
4141440 1 month ago
@VirusVescichetta
Apparently your quite simple yourself, I'm sure he was award of it and was just trying to make a point.
shortnsweet46 1 month ago
@TheSilvertones Regardless of how he tries to explain it, that product was never commercially released. There's nothing inherently wrong with genetic modification of plants, considering that they can be used to feed more people on less farmland. The issue is with how the corporations that own the patents to the seeds handle them.
Long story short, do the research before you try to call someone out on this shit.
VirusVescichetta 1 month ago
@VirusVescichetta ...and this is your idea of proof? Sounds more like opinion to me. If we're gonna talk opinion, you say "There's nothing inherently wrong with genetic modification of plants", I say there's nothing right about the genetic modification of plants.
please present proof, links, references, something to support your claim or don't bother to reply because I'm not interested in your opinion, I want explicit knowledge not implicit.
TheSilvertones 1 month ago
@TheSilvertones
/pbs/org/wnet/dna/pop_genetic_gallery/index.html
genecuisine/blogspot/com/2011/01/gm-foods-tomato-fish.html
/bodhipaksa/com/archives/if-a-tomato-contains-fish-genes-is-it-still-vegetarian
Have some links and learn some basic biology. I'll admit that it's personal belief that there's nothing inherently wrong with genetic engineering. The rest is fact.
VirusVescichetta 1 month ago
@TheSilvertones
Chil would ya GEES!
shortnsweet46 1 month ago
@shortnsweet46 I'll "Chil"when you fuck off.
TheSilvertones 1 month ago
Home Schooled, say it all right there!
TheSilvertones 1 month ago
This kid could also solve all of our energy problems. Just put a wind turbine in front of his arms.
MichaelG2K 1 month ago 3
If all kids can become like this, the next generation of adults will save the world.
MatthewAvello 1 month ago 36
@MatthewAvello ... If adults can become like this !!!! Great video!!! Choice gives corporations their power.
dmdfct 1 month ago
THIS KID SHOULD BE AN INSPIRATION TO US ALL .. GO OUT SPREAD THE WORD ..
The2012Eclipse 2 months ago 7
Great job :) I wish more of the younger generation were like this kid. He's got a good head on his shoulders, no doubt!!!
2pbig 2 months ago
This kid is well coached but nonetheless he delivered it right on the money....lol ! good job kid !
yulindh 2 months ago 2
This child is smarter and more aware than some adults I know!! I sure hope his parents are very proud of him. Perhaps there is still hope............
little2u 2 months ago 11
@little2u Make that most!
esca8652 1 month ago
yeah kiddo you go and tell em!!
oceanxtide 2 months ago
outstanding.. what a great kid!
MrStevoc 2 months ago
excellent !
heapbigtalk 2 months ago
who got owned?
nomnomnomnom0 2 months ago
2:21 I've heard this bit of hype before, truth is all crops(no matter the rotation strip soil of some nutrients. Yes crop rotation is good management, no it doesn't magically build to the soil. You need to add nutrients, be it chemical or organic type. Simple soil science 101. One last thing, GMO's pesticides and what not are sustaining a cheap food policy. If you want change, be prepared to accept all the changes that come with it.
ghenry85 2 months ago
@ghenry85 "You need to add nutrients"
not true
2pbig 2 months ago
@2pbig May I ask why not? I know that nutrients occur in the soil naturally. However, they are not of abundance in any normal soil. Crop and other plants gather nutrients from the ground as they grow. When the crop is harvested, you take away a portion of the nutrients with the crop. Sure some nutrients are put back in when the rest of the plant rots in the field, but that only acounts for a fraction of what was removed. I'm up to debating this in a mature fashion if you are mate. ;)
ghenry85 2 months ago
@ghenry85 Okay, you claim that only a fraction of the nutrients that are taken from the soil by the organism are deposited back into it. Why are there still forests in the world, then? By your logic, wouldn't there be no nutritients in the soil after millions years of cyclical life? Btw, yes I'm game for a mature debate :P
2pbig 2 months ago
@2pbig That's easy, your plants/animals in the forest cycle the nutrients over time. And the nutrient cycle can be considered closed loop. I've sent you a PM of the rest of my answer.
ghenry85 2 months ago
@2pbig It's called monoculture, it's an agricultural practice of producing or growing one single crop over a wide area.