Biodynamic agriculture

The Centers for Disease Control defines a concentrated animal feeding operation, also abbreviated CAFO, as an industrial-scale agricultural facility that raises animals, usually at high-density, for food production. Concentrated animal feeding operations are growing which has caused a rise in concern for health risks. While CAFOs provide some benefits when properly managed, the release of pollution is inevitable and has the ability to threaten human health. The amount of manure and associated…

1.What is the issue being discussed in the article? Who are the parties involved and what are their interests (in other words, what do they have to gain or lose?)? The issue being discussed in the article is the new authority granted to the Food and Drug Administration in order for the agency to regulate and oversee how America’s food is grown on farms. The parties involved are the FDA and farmers/advocates who are both pro and anti of the new regulation. Advocates for food safety laws are…

The Multiple T Maze: The purpose of this experiment is to test the animals spatial cognition and their ability to retain short term information. The experiment involves a maze made up of multiple T-Junctions, and is fairly easy to measure spatial cognition and information retaining as there is a clear right and wrong answer for each junction. Each intersection must remain the same length and scale in order to ensure the test measures the animals ability to recall information based upon their…

political centralization, and a fixed military were formed, to which, ultimately, farmers dislodged foragers. A more serious dislodgement occurred with peoples--diseased people. Epidemic diseases that survive in sizable, dense populations arrived after agriculture started, where similar epidemics from herd animals had evolved into human ones. Greater densities and contact with domesticates in human populations allowed for the spread of these diseases. People who were exposed, however, could…

The abovementioned effects caused by the Bretton Woods organisations are obvious reasons why many developing countries do not approve of the arrangements enforced by the IMF and the World Bank. To illustrate these issues, real world examples from some developing countries will be referred to. Somalia, in Sub-Saharan Africa, is a “pastoral economy based on exchange between nomadic herdsman and agriculturalists” (Chossudovsky; 1997: 101). The intervention by the IMF and the World Bank in the…

a slow death. Droughts are also becoming common in agriculture. They lead large portions of land to dehydrate, and become barren. Charales Iceland, from the World Resource Institute, A Global Tour of recent droughts, mentioned, in 2012, half of India's population was moved by a water crisis which led to a drought in the land. Matt Rodell provided information that if actions were not taken, 114 million Indians will have a collapse on agriculture and shortage of water.…

This article looks at the relationship between factory farming and antibiotic resistance which can eventually affect humans. The source shows the reader how eating meat can have a negative effect on them. It provides significant information because it is backed by science and is more personal to the reader since it affects them directly which is another way of persuading those who may not care for the animals but do care for themselves. Health is a major concern because it affects people…

On average, there are over 70 million dogs, and 85 million cats owned by citizens of the United States. Of the pet owning households, 43% claim to own more than one pet. These facts may seem to be less astounding because pets are “family” to many households, but, what happens when pets are no longer wanted or needed. Where do they go? The answer is animal shelters all over the country. Of 1000 animal shelters surveyed by the National Council, more than half of the animals, or 3.8 million in 2008…

However, experts have established their own line of arguments in support of their preferred labelling policy, either FDA-recommended voluntary labelling or critics’ favourite mandatory labelling policy in terms of controlled movement of GMOs in local and international markets. Experts’ arguments are also much complicated in this particular area as it does in other aspects of GM debate (Carter and Gruere, 2003). These arguments are stretched from an ethical ground and consumer’s right which…

The drought in California has effected many people over the past year. The whole state is hurting and yearning for water but there is one specific group of living things, animals and people, who are suffering the most. The farmers growing California food and the farm animals providing our food are suffering the most during this horrific drought. California’s farmers are in desperate need to keep crops alive and supply their livestock with adequate amounts of water. California farmland has not…