Monoculture

Nature has enslaved people since the beginning of time. As humans have developed they have overcome oceans, plagues, nomadism, and other organisms. Most recently scientists have created means to overcome the biological constraints of agriculture, and the plant that has contributed the most is corn. Pollan stated. “corn has done more than any other species to help the food industry realize the dream of freeing food from nature’s limitations.(91)” thesis Modern corn now is genetically changed to…

agreement for protection and promotion of the diversity within cultures. Whether the importunate to protect cultures or individuals is necessary, Appiah believes that the individual must be the focus of moral concern. Appiah realizes that although monoculture is still in existence today, their distinctiveness has diminished compared to a hundred years ago. For Appiah this is a good thing as many of the negative cultural beliefs like the fear of medicine, the disapproval of clean water from…

agriculture, specifically industrial agriculture has caused multiple environmental impacts. Compared to the other land uses, agriculture causes the most harm to the planet due to the use of inorganic fertilizers, machinery, irrigation, pesticides, monocultures, and the problem of overgrazing. In order to fix these impacts, solutions must be made and applied. Luckily, there are solutions for many of these problems. Now, there are numerous reasons why those problems cause environmental impacts…

using pesticides, and having most government farms and food programs' crops grown in monocultures, farmers should be encouraged by the government to let animals graze on the land and also plant crops, eliminating the need for other chemicals, and to grow a diversity of crops. Therefore moving into a system where cultivating polyculture crops are more common. During his argument, Pollan points out to the huge monocultures of the midwestern, the fencerow-to-fencerow planting policies of Nixon’s…

Cretinism: also known as congenital hypothyroidism effects about 1 in 4000 babies. Cretinism is a situation induced by an insufficiency of thyroid hormone at birth and during minority, as a ensue of abnormal evolution of the thyroid gland. The thyroid gland becomes unbalanced or defective often due to an iodine imperfection. If untreated, can result in mild to severe impairment of both physical and mental growth and development. Cretinism can also cause mental deterioration, swelling of the…

The Internet Explorer team decided against the open source WebKit for two reasons; a practical decision and because they felt it was “important to counter movement towards a monoculture on the web.” It’s suspected that the term “monoculture” was referring to Blink, which is a rendering engine that Google Chrome uses. Although some of the largest tech companies are going against open source, there is one industry that remains to be one of the most impacted…

can't really be true” and because of this ignorance, people begin to make different kinds of buying decisions that are usually motivated by criteria other than just price. One example of industrial agriculture that we discussed in class is monoculture. Monoculture, or the practice of growing single crops intensively on a very large scale is a technological production system developed after World War II that depends on huge amounts of pesticide and fertilizer usage to protect the production…

Landowner’s Guide to Managing & Controlling Invasive Plants in Ontario document, invasive species (such as buckthorn, dog strangling vine, and garlic mustard) negatively impact our native biodiversity. And pose a significant threat of establishing a monoculture in addition to creating a new environment that cannot sustain or support our native species anymore. In our region, buckthorn lacks any natural enemies and has a longer growing season. Which can provide it an unfair advantage over native…

toxic to bees, and butterflies, as well as other organisms. Spectulation of some researchers suggest that this toxicity due to pesticides and herbicides is a direct link to the disaperance of bees(6). Genetically modified organisms also create a monoculture, which is unity of one crop being harvested and planted in row pe formation. The constant planting and replating of plants along with tpesticides and herbicides used destroys the soil used for planting, resulting in the need to buy more land…

Introduction There is a handful of aspects that go along with healthy soil such as nutrients essential to plants, beneficial microorganisms, and organic additives important in organic farming systems because of the integration of biodiversity; allowing overall healthier lifestyles to all individuals willing to take initiative. The health of the soil is represented by the health and rigor of the plants growing within it. Organic farming is not only beneficial for the earth’s surface but it is…