Tedxmanhattan 2013 - Selected highlights

Welcome to TEDx Manhattan, Changing the Way We Eat I'm Diane Hatz. I'm the organizer of today's events Who has not been to a TEDx Manhattan event before? We have seventy confirmed viewing parties around the country The average American throws out twenty-five pounds of food per person every month For a family of four that's like taking a hundred and seventy dollars every month and and shredding into the Cuisinart. Now many of the trends that lead to this nation's obesity epidemic have also contributed to this increase in food waste. The average cookie is four times bigger than it used to be. We the retailers of this country need to stand up and accept at least partial responsibility for this food mess that we got ourselves into. This isn't the farmers fault to pick the fruit before it's ripe because it's easier for us to handle it to grow farmed salmon that we know is not sustainable because it's just too hard to explain to our customers why wild salmon is better. It feels preposterous and maybe even embarrassing to stand here in twenty-thirteen to say to that we have the right to know what's in our food. And the CDC has gone on to say that the same generation born in the year two thousand will be the first in our country's history to die a younger age than their parents because of what we feed them. You know my food service workers are the lowest paid employees in the whole school district. We pay more for the people washing the floors then feeding our children. We should be ashamed. We have to change. What we found was shocking. forty percent of the food that is grown in this country isn t there is a waste at the farm in transit at supermarkets in restaurants and homes it's everywhere so what is a pastry chef doing at and talk about health and well it's kinda like when one member of one political party and the kids something from the other political parties and people really listen and a pastry chefs are worried that the amount of fat consider that were concerned is a problem then we'll really have a problem you see a typical produce buyer cares about three things he wants a piece of fruit it's gonna look great mister west a really long time better have a great price resorts slavery taste don't come up that they do not come up in the conversations and that's a complete opposite of what you want the here so here's what i want you to do the next time you go to the supermarket any bias and for tenants disappointed because it doesn't taste good bring it back returning to the store and enough people did that the shovel marketing retailers regatta pointe often taken from fast food stress stress about holdings healthy protein that conviction why do we think that's so hard why can't we have that at least going markets in the most important blackout highlight teacher of our country my name is david mcintyre dave and i have a friend of the farmer