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Around the world, Indigenous food cultures vanish because of industrialized agriculture and a shifting, Western-influenced concept of the ideal diet. Food researcher Aparna Pallavi explores why once-essential culinary traditions disappear from people's lives and memories almost without notice — and serves up a subtle solution to revitalize our connection to the foods we eat.
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I’ve always wanted to know
Oatmeal, whiskey and haggis.
@Gia Pacella it will be waiting for you!
Only if it’s Jamesons.
Mead, beef, and bread.
Utter TRUTH !!!
Insects are very nutritious. Madagascar cockroaches are said to be as nourishing as salmon.
@Jr R LOL!
Crikey
Beautiful speech, absolutely true. The situation is very bad. I hope we can reverse this.
Food that they earned.
Pretty sure my ancestors loved food that wasn’t poisonous.
Natural
You haven’t Tasted my Cooking.
Lots of food is slightly poisonous, such as beer, it’s just not poisonous enough to matter. Another example is hot peppers, their heat comes from a natural toxin that their ancestors evolved to protect them selves and humans have breed increase how much of that each pepper has.
@MWhaleK Ever tried Magic Mushrooms?
Get a Book and go for it. 🙂
I am Norwegian and a coastal dweller. This means whaling. The hunting, killing and eating of whale meat. I grew up on it and I will continue to eat it for as long as it is available. The whales being hunted are not endangered and the number being hunted is decreasing every year as the interest in the traditional dishes and consumption goes down. It will probably end with my generation as there are no one to take over the boats and the whaling licences as time goes on.
Cool, I guess. I mean, if they’re not endangered, and it’s the same as hunting any other animal, so carry on I guess
I believe this is a very long discussion and personally I hope we can stop eating animals one day (for our own survival as species, considering the impact in the environment), but it’s very different to eat a worm that it’s available in your country and/or city or hunt whales not endangered in a specific location than the way the industry does it. The problem would be that these whale meat could be sold at very high prices to other countries as a “gourmet delicacy”, which could become more of the same. So it’s funny how we think as if we are guilty for all these problems when late capitalism is to blame.
This is a really interesting observation of the civilization process and how social pressure is applied.
Yeah. It’s amazing and kinda sad that social pressures even affect the food that we eat…
@I Don’t Have A Goddamn Name Yeah, I eat a lot of “weird” food or food combinations and it’s funny when people call me out for it. Same for clothes. It’s an interesting phenomenon. I understand it for clothes (maybe tribes want to recognize that you’re one of them) but social pressure for food is something I don’t fully understand yet. It makes sense in the sense of keeping the tribe healthy (by avoiding poisonous food or whatever) but in a social context. No clue.
@robizzlor my first experience with social pressures is when I said I liked comics and comic book characters. The response was not good and it caused me to struggle with basically everything. It didn’t help that I was me. Then along comes the mcu (thank god) and people hop onto the ‘trend’. Most things in my life are like that and it’s such bullcrap.
Very interesting. I’m saddened that the ancestors who could have taught me about a lifestyle dependant on local instead of distant ecosystems or industrial agriculture, were all dead long before I was born. I suspect this is the case for most people in heavily industrialized countries..
Same. I live in America and we’re basically all dependent on grocery stores.
Dang, I thought the title was, “what fools did your ancestors love?” And I thought it would be a video about killing your heroes
Lol
Ones they could Hunt/Catch.
I’m not that Fkn old.
TED’s getting back on track
Interesting Egyptian symbol hanging around your neck.
Cheers Gray
Australia
i loved this talk so much ….
WOW! This is wonderful! Thank you!
extremely insightful, beautiful and all around a good message.