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<code>1.Hello. My name is Birke Baehr, and I'm 11 years old.
大家好。我叫Birke Baehr伯克·巴爾， 11歲。
2.I came here today to talk about what's wrong with our food system.
我要講的是我們食物體系的問題。
3.First of all, I would like to say that I'm really amazed at how easily kids are led to believe all the marketing and advertising on TV, at public schools
首先，我想說 我非常驚奇孩子們是多麼容易就輕信 所有 在電視上，在公立學校
4.and pretty much everywhere else you look.
甚至隨處可見的營銷宣傳和廣告。
5.It seems to me like corporations are always trying to get kids like me to get their parents to buy stuff that really isn't good for us or the planet.
我覺得公司總是 試著讓像我一樣的孩子 要父母去買那些 對我們和對地球環境都不好的東西。
6.Little kids, especially, are attracted by colorful packaging and plastic toys.
小孩子尤其 喜歡彩色包裝 和塑料玩具。
7.I must admit, I used to be one of them.
我必須承認，我曾是他們中的一員。
8.I also used to think that all of our food came from these happy, little farms where pigs rolled in mud and cows grazed on grass all day.
我也曾以為我們所有的食物 來自於開心小農場， 那裡整天有在泥漿裡打滾的豬和遍地吃草的牛。
9.What I discovered was this is not true.
但我發現這不是真的。
10.I began to look into this stuff on the internet, in books and in documentary films, in my travels with my family.
我開始在 互聯網，書本，紀錄片， 和與我家人的旅行中查找素材。
11.I discovered the dark side of the industrialized food system.
我發現了工業化食品體系的陰暗面。
12.First there's genetically engineered seeds and organisms.
首先談談轉基因種子和轉基因生物。
13.That is when a seed is manipulated in a laboratory to do something not intended by nature -- like taking the DNA of a fish and putting it into the DNA of a tomato -- yuck.
這是指在實驗室改造種子， 進行培植，而不是用自然的方式種植-- 就好比提取魚類的DNA， 把它植入到西紅柿的DNA中--噁心。
14.Don't get me wrong, I like fish and tomatoes, but this is just creepy.
不要誤解我，我喜歡魚和西紅柿， 但這個只能令人毛骨悚然。
15.(Laughter) The seeds are then planted, then grow.
（笑聲） 然後這些種子被種植，生長。
16.The food they produce have been proven to cause cancer and other problems in lab animals.
轉基因的食物被證明 若是用於實驗動物會引發癌症和其它問題。
17.And people have been eating food produced this way since the 1990's.
自從1990年代起，人們一直在吃 這些轉基因的食物。
18.And most folks don't even know they exist.
多數人甚至不知道它們的存在。
19.Did you know rats that ate genetically engineered corn had developed signs of liver and kidney toxicity?
你知道嗎？老鼠吃了轉基因穀物 會有肝和腎毒性作用的發生。
20.These include kidney inflammation and lesions and increased kidney weight.
這包括腎炎、損傷和重量增加。
21.Yet almost all the corn we eat is altered genetically in some way.
然而我們吃過的幾乎所有穀物 都是某種程度的轉基因作物。
22.And let me tell you, corn is in everything.
我要告訴你的是， 任何食物裡都有穀物的痕跡。
23.And don't even get me started on the confined animal feeding operations.
更不用說集中動物飼養操作了——
24.called CAFOS.
簡稱CAFOS（美國集中畜牧經營）。
25.(Laughter) Conventional farmers use chemical fertilizers made from fossil fuels that they mix with the dirt to make plants grow.
（笑聲） 傳統農民使用化石燃料製成的化肥， 這些肥料 和泥土混合，促進植物生長。
26.They do this because they've stripped the soil of all nutrients from growing the same crop over and over again.
農民施肥是因為他們年復一年種植同樣的作物， 已經窮竭了土壤的所有養分。
27.Next, more harmful chemicals are sprayed on fruits and vegetables, like pesticides and herbicides, to kill weeds and bugs.
接下來，他們噴灑更多化學物到水果蔬菜上， 比如殺蟲劑和除草劑， 來殺死雜草和蟲子。
28.When it rains, these chemicals seep into the ground, or run off into our waterways, poisoning our water too.
當下雨的時候，這些化學物滲入土地， 或流到我們水路， 也汙染我們的水域。
29.Then they irradiate our food, trying to make it last longer, so it can travel thousands of miles from where it's grown to the supermarkets.
接著他們用輻射處理我們的食物，使其更保鮮， 為了食物可運輸千里 從產地運到超市貨架。
30.So I ask myself, how can I change? How can I change these things?
所以我自問， 我能如何改變這些情況？
31.This is what I found out.
這是我發現的辦法：
32.I discovered that there's a movement for a better way.
我瞭解到了一個朝好的方向改變的方法。
33.Now a while back, I wanted to be an NFL football player.
前一陣， 我想成為一個美式橄欖球運動員。
34.I decided that I'd rather be an organic farmer instead.
但我決定我更願意成為一個有機農業家。
35.(Applause) Thank you.
（鼓掌） 謝謝。
36.And that way I can have a greater impact on the world.
那樣的話我可以更多地改變世界。
37.This man, Joel Salatin, they call him a lunatic farmer because he grows against the system.
這個人，喬伊·薩拉廷，被稱為瘋狂的農民， 因為他的種植方法違反整個農業體系。
38.Since I'm home schooled, I went to go hear him speak one day.
因為我是在家受教育， 有一天我去聽他講話。
39.This man, this lunatic farmer, doesn't use any pesticides, herbicides, or genetically modified seeds.
這個人，這個瘋狂的農民 不使用任何殺蟲劑，除草劑， 或者轉基因種子。
40.And so for that, he's called crazy by the system.
因此從體系的角度看，他很瘋狂。
41.I want you to know that we can all make a difference by making different choices, by buying our food directly from local farmers, or our neighbors who we've known all our lives.
我想讓大家知道我們大家都可以有所作為 通過不同的選擇， 向當地農民 或者從我們熟知的鄰居那兒直接購買食物。
42.Some people say organic or local food is more expensive, but is it really?
有人會說有機或者當地食物比較貴， 但事實是否如此呢？
43.With all these things I've been learning about the food system, it seems to me that we either pay the farmer, or we can pay the hospital.
根據我所學到的關於食物體系的這些知識， 我知道要麼我們付錢給農民， 要麼付給醫院。
44.(Applause) Now I know definitely what one I would choose.
（鼓掌） 現在我已經知道怎麼選擇了。
45.I want you to know that there are farms out there -- like Bill Keener in Sequachie Cove Farm in Tennessee -- whose cows do eat grass
我想讓大家知道還是有那樣的農場-- 比如田納西州，比爾·科恩爾的塞曲馳灣農場-- 那裡牛兒吃草，
46.and whose pigs do roll in the mud, just like I thought.
豬泥地打滾，就如同我所想象的那樣。
47.Sometimes I go to Bill's farm and volunteer, so I can see up close and personal where the meat I eat comes from.
有時我會去比爾的農場做義工， 所以我可以近距離親自看到 我吃的肉來自於哪裡。
48.I want you to know that I believe kids will eat fresh vegetables and good food if they know more about it and where it really comes from.
我想讓大家知道我認為 孩子們如果對食物瞭解更多，知道它們來自於哪裡， 他們就會願意吃新鮮蔬菜和健康食物。
49.I want you to know that there are farmers' markets in every community, popping up.
我希望大家知道在每個社區 都在湧現農夫市場。
50.I want you to know that me, my brother and sister actually like eating baked kale chips.
我想讓大家知道我，我哥哥和我姐姐 真的喜歡吃烤羽衣甘藍片。
51.I try to share this everywhere I go.
無論我到哪裡，都會向大家分享我的想法。
52.Not too long ago, my uncle said that he offered my six year-old cousin cereal.
不久以前， 我叔叔說他給我六歲堂弟吃麥片時，
53.He asked if he wanted organic Toasted O's or the sugar-coated flakes -- you know, the one with the big striped cartoon character on the front.
他問他是想要Toasted O's有機麥片 還是糖衣玉米片-- 大家曉得的，在包裝正面有一個大幅帶條紋卡通人物的那種。
54.My little cousin told his dad that he would rather have the organic Toasted O's cereal, because, Birke said, he shouldn't eat sparkly cereal.
我小堂弟告訴他爸爸 他比較想要Toasted O's的有機燕麥片， 因為伯克說過，他不應該吃那些閃閃發光的燕麥片。
55.And that, my friends, is how we can make a difference one kid at a time.
我的朋友們，這就是我們可以逐個勸說孩子們 讓他們作出的改變。
56.So next time you're at the grocery store, think local, choose organic, know your farmer and know your food.
所以下一次你在商店購物時，請為本地農業著想， 選擇有機食物，認識你的農夫，更好地瞭解你的食物。
57.Thank you.
謝謝。/<code>
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