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Ted Talks x Austin - Robyn O’Brien on Food

“Robyn shares her personal story and how it inspired her current path as a “Real Food” evangelist. Grounded in a successful Wall Street career that was more interested in food as good business than good-for-you, this mother of four was shaken awake by the dangerous allergic reaction of one of her children to a “typical” breakfast. Her mission to unearth the cause revealed more about the food industry than she could stomach, and impelled her to share her findings with others. Informative and inspiring.”

This is the logic of Capitalism. I can’t say that Capitalism guarantees this kind of behavior in a society - because many/most/all other countries (depending on the situation) don’t make these kinds of decisions. But the incentive is there and I believe it exemplifies quite well the likely outcomes of valuing profit over people.

I can’t believe the things “we” have done to this planet, and to ourselves, just for robotically fulfilling incentives, or for greedily chasing fleeting comforts. The world is so much bigger than that.