Glyphosate

Every year about 42.5 million American adults suffer from a mental illness. Also 1 in every 10 children suffer from mental illness(¨The Rise¨). Mental illness affects younger generations more frequently than middle aged generations. Half of all chronic mental illness begin by the age of 14(¨Mental Health¨). Additionally, the rates of depression and anxiety among young people in America have been increasing steadily for the past 50 to 70 years. ¨When I first started working in depression 30 years…

The appeal to nature and casual fallacies appear in conversations and in many forms of writing on a daily basis. Robert Todd Carroll has written two pieces, Becoming a Critical Thinker and Skeptics Dictionary, which explain what the two ideas are. In short, the appeal to nature is a claim that all things that are natural are good and all things unnatural are bad. A casual fallacy is a belief that because one thing happens something else occurs as a result. These two ideas are present in three…

for the environment. These harms are due to the fact that the composition of these pesticides contains a chemical called glyphosate and its environmental harms are numerous. The report by the Institute of Science in Society and archived by the British Library demonstrates how “More than 40 diseases have been linked to glyphosate use… Soil biology is strongly disrupted by glyphosate… glyphosate’s high water solubility makes aquatic wild-life very vulnerable. Lab studies showed extreme toxicity”.…

When we head to the grocery store and purchase our groceries we generally do not think about where they come from, or what it takes for them to come from the farms to our refrigerators. Without different flying insects which pollinate flowers, crops and trees, an outstanding number of different crops and foods would be at risk for crisis. Many people do not know about the current problem with our global pollinators, which includes, many different species of bees. Luckily, scientists around the…

Genetically Modified Organisms Do you really know what’s really in your food? Have you ever even wondered if it is even safe? Genetically Modified Organisms are one of the biggest and most dangerous government corruptions. If you are not informed on the term Genetically Modified Organisms or GMOs, they are the result of a laboratory process of taking genes from one species and inserting them into another, in an attempt to obtain a desired trait or characteristic. When an animal or plant is…

What We Are Eating Are Putting Our World and Health at Risks Food is essential to us. It provides energy and nutrients we need to survive. Therefore, we always want to improve the food’s appearance, nutrient values and increase crop yields. This leads to the creation of genetically modified (GM) foods. According to the World Health Organization, GM foods are foods derived from organisms whose genetic material (DNA) has been modified in a way that does not occur naturally, e.g. through…

Permitting Genetically Modified Organisms The brilliant inventor Thomas Edison once said “Until a man duplicates a blade of grass, Nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge” (qtd. in Sack). Man cannot yet replicate a blade of grass, but can modify organisms to enhance their nutritional output. In a recent report it was unveiled that the “181.5 million hectares of gmos were planted in 2014” (James). However this should pose no concern because the Environmental Protection Agency…

The Canadian Thistle is the perfect example of a species that affects my local environment here in Kentucky. The Canadian Thistle is a member of the Aster family which the Artichoke also belongs to. Like other plants that belong in the Aster family, the Canadian Thistle and Artichoke are composite flowers with many small flowers bunched together which is normally protected by overlapping layers of bracts. Even though the weed is called Canadian Thistle it is not native to Canada. Canadian…

In addition to the lawsuits from “seed saving” with compliant GM farmers, farmers with no association with Monsanto are also losing out. Many organic farms are losing billions of dollars because they are being contaminated by GM pollen and seeds, through no fault of their own. Each time an organic farm is contaminated; the farm loses their prestigious title and has to deal with Monsanto lawsuits, because of their patented seeds. Organic food is in very high demand right now; many people are on…

To determine optimal pH value for the hydrolysis of p-NPG by leukocyte GCase, we examined effects of variable pH (4.0-5.5) at a constant substrate concentration (5mM). Figure 1 shows the pH activity curves of leukocyte GCase assayed in the presence and absence of 6 mg per ml Sodium taurocholate. In the absence of the pure sodium taurocholate, the activity in the range of pH 4.0-4.8 was considerably lower. However, in the presence of pure Sodium taurocholate, leukocyte GCase was optimally active…