Persuasive Essay On Green Farming

As the need for sustainability and eco-friendly methods for running a business and manufacturing grows, so does the need for green farming. Incorporating a sustainable green life is more than just changing your eating habit, it involves varied aspects of alternative farming, such as using new hybrid seeds that grow any hotter climates, learning how to reserve rainwater and purchasing farming equipment that will reduce soil erosion, protecting the environment and the earth’s ozone layer. Yesteryear farming was family oriented, from parents to kids and grandparents, kids did their chores before school and worked past sun down after school (older children). This was a way of life for them, everyone was involved in making sure crops and farm …show more content…
I chose this industry because of the increase request to reduce greenhouse emissions cause by fertilizer manufactured responsible for one third of all human caused greenhouse emissions according to the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) …show more content…
Left over plant foods were discarded in cleared areas and later discovered these same plants that were thrown had grown. Eventually, people connected the leaving of seed one season to finding of edible plants the next. Farming began when people intentionally saved and planted seeds of their favorite plants (Lewis). The accidental discovery of cultivation of plants spread fast, by eight thousand years ago, people in the Americas were eating kidney beans, peanut butter, lima beans, squash, and potatoes. It wasn’t until the nineteenth century, when the work of Charles Darwin and Gregory Mendel, in evolution and genetics revealing the biological basis of selective breeding, called agriculture (Lewis). Then, in the 1970’s, the introduction of agricultural biotechnology, the process of genetically engineering the food we eat, begins, with the main purpose to improve appearance, flavor, and nutritional content of foods, and ease of cultivation