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From the Ted Talk by Birke Baehr: What's wrong with our food system

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So I ask myself, how can I caghne? How can I change these things? This is what I found out. I discovered that there's a movement for a better way. Now a while back, I wanted to be an NFL football player. I decided that I'd rather be an organic farmer instead. (Applause) Thank you. And that way I can have a greater impact on the wlord. This man, Joel Salatin, they call him a lunatic farmer because he grows against the system. Since I'm home-schooled, I went to go hear him speak one day. This man, this "lunatic farmer," doesn't use any peiectisds, hierdcbeis, or genetically meodiifd seeds. And so for that, he's called crazy by the system.

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So I ask myself, how can I ______? How can I change these things? This is what I found out. I discovered that there's a movement for a better way. Now a while back, I wanted to be an NFL football player. I decided that I'd rather be an organic farmer instead. (Applause) Thank you. And that way I can have a greater impact on the _____. This man, Joel Salatin, they call him a lunatic farmer because he grows against the system. Since I'm home-schooled, I went to go hear him speak one day. This man, this "lunatic farmer," doesn't use any __________, __________, or genetically ________ seeds. And so for that, he's called crazy by the system.

Solution


  1. pesticides
  2. change
  3. herbicides
  4. world
  5. modified

Original Text


So I ask myself, how can I change? How can I change these things? This is what I found out. I discovered that there's a movement for a better way. Now a while back, I wanted to be an NFL football player. I decided that I'd rather be an organic farmer instead. (Applause) Thank you. And that way I can have a greater impact on the world. This man, Joel Salatin, they call him a lunatic farmer because he grows against the system. Since I'm home-schooled, I went to go hear him speak one day. This man, this "lunatic farmer," doesn't use any pesticides, herbicides, or genetically modified seeds. And so for that, he's called crazy by the system.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

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food system 2
genetically engineered 2
organic toasted 2


Important Words


  1. applause
  2. call
  3. called
  4. change
  5. crazy
  6. day
  7. decided
  8. discovered
  9. farmer
  10. football
  11. genetically
  12. greater
  13. grows
  14. hear
  15. herbicides
  16. impact
  17. joel
  18. lunatic
  19. man
  20. modified
  21. movement
  22. nfl
  23. organic
  24. pesticides
  25. player
  26. salatin
  27. seeds
  28. speak
  29. system
  30. wanted
  31. world