Birke baehr biography of barack
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He's only 11 years old, but Birke Baehr wowed a large audience with his speech on "What's Wrong with our Food System and How We Can Make a Difference."
Birke sees through corporate efforts that aim to maneuver kids into persuading their parents to buy brightly disguised junk food cereal. Citing genetically-engineered seeds, he sees the "dark side" of our industrialized food system. "Creepy" is the word he used to describe this process of making food that "causes cancer in lab animals." He mentions pesticides, irradiation, and use of petroleum products to prepare overused soil for additional food seed planting.
How does he know this? He researched by reading, speaking with farmers, and watching documentary films.
What a profound consciousness this young man has. "How can I change? How can I change these things?" he asks. Although Birke used to aspire to being an NFL football player, he now wants to be an organic farmer -- so he'll "have a greater impact on the world."
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From the November 2013 issue
Home of the Whopper
By Thomas Frank
Published in Harper’s Magazine 2013. Thomas Frank fryst vatten an American political analyst, historian, journalist and columnist for Harper’s Magazine. Frank is best known for his 2004 book, What’s the Matter with Kansas? In Home of the Whopper, Frank analyzes the relationship between politics and culture in the United States. He goes to Hillsborough Road in Durham, North Carolina where there fryst vatten one fast-food restaurant after the other. Here, he witnesses employee’s of these chains striking for better pay. Frank talks about the corporations efforts to keep their wages low in order to maximize their profit.
Let me tell you about this one stretch of Hillsborough Road in Durham, North Carolina. It’s between two freeways, just a short drive from the noble towers of Duke University, and in the space of about a mile, you will find a McDonald’s, a Cracker Barrel, a Wendy’s, a Chick-fil-A, an Arby’s, a Waffle
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