Right? It's beans right? It's coffee beans.

I like beans.

Who likes beans?

I hate lima beans.

Here's some beans, and there are about 35 or 40 different varieties of beans on this picture.

Mix the rice, egg and soy sauce.

Mix the rice, egg and soy sauce.

And the soy sauce results were inconclusive because of the large data range, but it seems like soy sauce actually increased the potential carcinogens.

Mix the rice and eggs with soy sauce.

(a) Domestic availability of soya beans

What's your favorite way to cook beans?

We can't even afford to eat anything except beans.

Brazil supplies the world with coffee beans of quality.

But there are 35 to 40,000 different varieties of beans.

Well, the foods that are produced are, more or less, corn, soy and wheat.

We needed to be working on soy things that we were not focused on.

Doesn't mean they don't eat meat, but lots of beans and nuts.

brought beds, basins, earthen vessels, wheat, barley, meal, parched grain, beans, lentils, roasted grain,

brought beds, basins, earthen vessels, wheat, barley, meal, parched grain, beans, lentils, roasted grain,

Soy, parsley, garlic, grapes, berries I could go home and cook a tasty meal using these ingredients.

Thanks to farm subsidies, the fine collaboration between agribusiness and Congress, soy, corn and cattle became king.

And even sort of horrible things, like picking beans by hand, can now be done automatically.

At the end of 2000, CIAT, supported by the FAO, requested that the USPTO re examine the patent. Geneticists then performed genetic fingerprinting on the yellow beans, and concluded that Proctor s Enola bean was identical to the Mexican beans covered by the Trust Agreement.

Rather than spending their lives eating grass, for which their stomachs were designed, they were forced to eat soy and corn.

It may be tempting to dismiss the Enola patent as an aberration, but there are hundreds of examples of such biopiracy. Mexican beans, South Asian basmati rice, Bolivian quinoa, Amazonian ayahuasca, Indian chickpeas, Peruvian nuña beans, Andean maca all have been subject to predatory intellectual property claims.

Brought beds, and basons, and earthen vessels, and wheat, and barley, and flour, and parched corn, and beans, and lentiles, and parched pulse,

Brought beds, and basons, and earthen vessels, and wheat, and barley, and flour, and parched corn, and beans, and lentiles, and parched pulse,

I'll give you two examples, also from the garden lima beans. You know what a lima bean does when it's attacked by spider mites?

You could take a cardboard box delivering shoes, you could add water I developed this for the refugee community corns, beans and squash and onions.

And we knew that they planted a kind of horticulture, that they grew these beautiful gardens of corn, beans, and squash, the Three Sisters garden.

In the beginning, maybe pineapples and beans and corn in the second phase, there will be bananas and papayas later on, there will be chocolate and chilies.

It's because of the way the government commodifies food, and the cheap corn and cheap soy that are pushed into our food supply that makes these non nutrient foods really, really cheap.

At the moment, Europe depends on importing millions of tons of soy from South America, where its production contributes to global warming, to deforestation, to biodiversity loss, to feed livestock here in Europe.

It would be somewhere probably within three and five percent of the number of beans in the jar, and it would be better than 90 to 95 percent of you.

The fructose content of a soft drink is 5.3 . Of course, many parents might refuse to give soft drinks to their children, but the fructose content of soy formula is 5.1 , and 6 for juice.

Sadly, it was at this time that the family dinner was put in a coma, if not actually killed the beginning of the heyday of value added food, which contained as many soy and corn products as could be crammed into it.

However, a study by the South African Government concluded that by producing fuels from soybeans on a commercial basis, the country would be able to produce significantly more food in the form of protein rich soy oilcake and maize at the same time.

He planted the beans, selected seeds from the same plants, and planted them again, repeating the procedure two more times. In late 1996, after barely two years, he stated that he had invented a unique variety, and applied for a patent.

I mean, here you have these guys who basically thought they were just following this hunch, this little passion that had developed, then they thought they were fighting the Cold War, and then it turns out they're just helping somebody find a soy latte.

As a result, if the price of soy continues to fall, subsidies a source of corruption and patronage will be an increasingly heavy burden for public spending. According to unofficial figures, subsidies already represent 5 of GDP, and only painful adjustments can reduce them.

In August 2004, an order was placed with the Brazilian company Mebrafe for equipment to upgrade the entire refrigeration system of the Unión Láctea, as part of a social programme for providing soy yoghurt to Cuban children between 7 and 13 years of age.

So if I were to going to show you all the beans in the world, and I had a slide like this, and I switched it every second, it would take up my entire TED talk, and I wouldn't have to say anything.

Well, if that bag of chips then becomes inherently more expensive than an apple, then maybe it's time for a different sense of personal responsibility in food choice because the choices are actually choices instead of three quarters of the products being made just from corn, soy and wheat.

If you routinely buy such foods, you are among LOHAS (Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability) consumers the health food industry s cherished demographic base. You buy low carbohydrate products, energy and nutrition bars, vitamin and mineral fortified foods and beverages, soy foods, and practically anything with a health claim.

Besides, it is not like there is huge profit for G 8 leaders in trying to collect coins from impoverished peoples living on a dollar a day. What would the G 8 leaders do, station troops in Africa to seize coffee beans and peanuts?