Alice Waters: The Trouble with Fast Food Video Lecture | Shaping the Future: The New Western World - Personal Skills

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I really feel that we're living in a
fast food culture yeah which has its own
set of values its own ideals and they
have to do with fast cheap and easy and
about making money making profit and
that's the primary goal of a fast food
culture let's just think about when you
go and you eat in a fast food restaurant
you are really digesting those values it
doesn't matter where the food came from
that's not important uniformity is
what's important is important
availability is important you want the
same no matter where you are you're in
Bogota right or or well there's that
story of McDonald's teaching Chinese
farmers to make potatoes because we have
to have french fries exactly the same as
uniformity is the opposite of
biodiversity we're not using our senses
they've been dulled by this experience
of eating and this is informing all of
the buildings that we're building its
informing everything we do we don't have
time to sit and have dinner with our
families when that's kind of the primary
right of civilization the good news is
when you're living in a fast food
culture and you're being indoctrinated
in this very narrow imprisoning way
still the smells of a fire and a bread
baking all markets are inside here we
still have not taken away the genes that
just thinking the same make us one want
to be connected to other people the
genes me that make us love nature the
genes that that round cooking and a
fireplace almost built in its built its
insider still and so it doesn't take too
much to pull us back and and that's the
beauty about teaching edible education
is that
once kids get this yeah when they roll
in the grass when they eat the raspberry
when they when they your awakening so
you already there the same thing the
French awakened to me you know that
really fundamental need for comfort and
caring and it's it's very very powerful
that's why I have such hope yeah well it
seems like you're winning well