Genetically modified organisms

The term “organic” refers to the methods used to grow and process agricultural products. Specific requirements must be met and maintained in order for products to be labeled as "organic." While the standards differ worldwide, organic farming in general features cultural, biological, and mechanical practices that advance recycling of resources, promote ecological balance, and preserve biodiversity. Organic crops must be grown in safe soil, have no modifications, and must remain separate from…

A family in the documentary stated that for what one item, like lets say naturally grown potato, they can go to burger king or Wendy's and get an entire meal there for the price of one bag of naturally grown potatoes. That is incredibly true. As Morgan Spurlock (Supersize Me) said “America is the fattest nation in the world. Over 100 million Americans are overweight or obese. 60% of all US adults are overweight or obese.” This is not acceptable. America needs to wake up. We need to make healthy…

Introduction The arguments in favour or against GM crops because of their implications for smallholder farmers in the Global South are numerous and conflicting. While advocates of biotechnology claim that GM crops are necessary for the alleviation of poverty and the eradication of food insecurity, sceptics declare that the lack of adaptation to smallholder needs and the failure to consider the various contexts in which GM crops are actually introduced, are actually threatening the livelihoods of…

Thomas and Joe: The Landscapers Thomas Gainsborough and Joe Rader Roberts are not your typical landscapers. In fact, the two are not the manual laborers who clean and fix up your lawn and gardens. Both men are artists who have remarkable works of landscape art. The difference between the two is that they were born nearly two centuries apart, so one can most likely see a huge setting and story difference in the works of art. I honestly could not have picked a better combination to compare and…

Milesstones Along the Food Timeline Technological advances, innovations, and new methods of packaging or storing food have shaped the food industry as well as the nutritional status of society today. Below are ten milestones in food history that I found to be quite entertaining and significant for society today and over the course of time! Irrigation 3100 BC Ancient Egyptians were the first to use irrigation around 3100 BC in the Mesopotamian plain. As settlers learned how to cultivate…

Organic Foods: Extraordinary or Average? Should two nearly identical products have different prices and different perceptions of nutritional value? Morgan Bahl, student at Iowa State University, does not think so. In her article “Organic Foods Are Not Better than Conventionally Grown Foods”, she discusses the role organic labels play in the actual quality of the product and the prices paid for these foods. Organic foods, despite having “clean ingredients”, may not be significantly nutritionally…

In the article Why You Should Stop Drinking Milk, wrote by a student studying Public Relations at the University of Texas, Leonor Martins’ main focus is to warn her readers on not only the harm dairy milk does to the human body, but also the maltreatment of the producing cows. The emphasis on the health concerns pertaining to ingredients found in dairy milk and the mistreatment of the farm cattle is organized into a distressing warning. It seems that the audiences that Ms. Martins is targeting…

ORGANIC FOOD MARKET Introduction Organic food market is an outcome of organic farming which uses organic fertilizer, and avoids pesticides and chemicals. The recent researches demonstrate that organic farming is an important vehicle to maintain environmental balance. Due to the fact that consumer concerns on health and environmental issues related to food, organic farming has drawn great attention in Europe, including EU members as well as non-EU members during the last couple decades. The…

Food safety is a significant factor in public health as recounted by National Research Council (1993) and Steahr (1996a, 1996b) cited in Antle (2001). Food safety is particularly important to vulnerable segments of the population such as the elderly, pregnant women, young children, and the immuno-compromised. Most marketing articles fail to cover the key issues related to importance of safer vegetables, although Coulibaly et al. (2011) narrowly look at the problem of marketing, he indicated that…

this high time when this planet has severely suffered from so many problems like pollution, global warming, loss of biodiversity, war and economic crises, increasing economic diversity and subsequent fuel and food crises and at the end, use of genetically modified food, bio-piracy, etc Sustainable food production system is the key to sustainable development especially for hill communities where agriculture is the mainstay of economy. History shows that human societies that can protect their…