TED Talks

At first I thought that the TED Talks would be boring and something that I wouldn't relate to but I was pleasantly surprised when I watched a few. The things that these TED Speakers were talking about are very important issues that need to be dealt with. I watched "Guerilla Gardening" and it really opened my mind to something that I didn't even think about. I wasn't aware of how many dialysis centers there are, and how quickly they are popping up. I didn't know that there were that many people with kidney issues. There are so many things that I am unaware of when it comes to food. According to Wendell Berry, I would be a "mere consumer" because I don't know anything about where my food comes from and I never cared to ask. This TED Talk made me want to grow a garden and shop at farmer's markets. It made me want to become an active consumer, it gave me the desire to know where my food comes from, how it is made and what it contains. When I watched the video "Why not eat insects?", I found it to be quite interesting. Marcel Dicke proposed convincing arguments with evidence about the issue of meat production and what would substitute it in the future. I completely understand where he is coming from and I know what he is saying is true because by 2050 we will have a third more mouths to feed and with the way that we produce food we won't have enough animals to provide protein. The way we eat doesn't help either, we eat way more than is actually necessary. But the point of the video was to inform its viewers that eating insects is something that we should be open-minded about because it will most likely happen. Although I doubt I will willingly eat insects, I can't deny the inevitable. All in all, the TED Talks were very informative and worth the watch.