TED Talk #5- Mark Bittman (What's wrong with what we eat)

I think it's disgusting how much the world consumes today. We have become such a greedy society that even the maximum amount of something can not fulfil our needs.  When Mr. Bittman talks about how much food means to us, and the potential danger that it provides to us, I think that we need to heed his words and take them into careful consideration.  I think he makes a good point when he says that almost all of the food today is bad for us, including an excess in meat, which was once thought to be healthy.  I think that if we can start to make healthier choices about our diet and the way we eat, we can eventually have that state of mind to say "Ya know what, I think I'm going to have a bag of carrots for a snack instead of a bag of potato chips.  All this mass producing of livestock and animals is not healthy for our planet, and it's not healthy for us, and the more time we spend ignoring this issue the greater consequences that we are going to have to face in the future.  Personally, the way that Mr. Bittman presented his opinions didn't really work for me.  I found that I wasn't captivated at all parts of his speech, and that I kept drifting off from the topic at hand.  The one thing that I did like about his presentation was his organization and note cards.  He gave quite a long speech, so I think it was a good idea for him to have a reference in front of him in case he lost his train of though while he was thinking.  I also like the way he organized his presentation, creating points that flowed off one another and really made the impression on what he was trying to get across.  The world is going to keep consuming food, and the world is going to keep producing food.  I think the thing we need to realize is that we need to limit the amount that we produce, and potentially cut down on the excess that isn't required.  Like I said before, our society is greedy, and I think that is a problem that we need to address in order to help cut back on the consumption of all these products.  Mr. Bittman said it himself, we don't NEED all this extra food that we have, and we just need to make smarter decisions on how to distribute it so that it can help benefit not only the world, but us as humans as well.