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Charly Frisk Corrie Grosse Intro to Environmental Science Cowspiracy PDP: Against Cowspiracy Brief Introduction In the documentary Cowspiracy, Kip Andersen and Keegan Kuhn seek to expose the impact of the agricultural industry on global climate change. However, the documentary deceives audiences of the real contribution of agriculture to global warming, Anderson and Kuhn negatively portray environmentalists and lose credibility themselves, and Cowspiracy fails to realize the consequences a…

Hamad Aldawood Project 1 Harris,Joel English 107 Is the use of GMOs Ethical? The application of recombinant technology to make transformations to plants as well as animals resulting in genetically modified foods is an important topic of discussion. GMOs play a significant role in reducing the costs of farm productions alongside other benefits to the farmers. On the other hand, they come with significant environmental as well as food safety risks that increase the nature and the occurrence of…

However, chemicals aren’t the only ways to control disease. Quarantine can be a simple way to stop the spread of disease. As Randy Ploetz, a professor of plant pathology, says in his article: “In pathogen-free regions, effective quarantine and exclusion are essential.” Once soil is infected by Panama disease there is no way to remove it (Ploetz). Quarantine can slow the spread but diseases like Panama and Black Sigatoka are easily tracked in on boots, farming equipment or machinery. The Farmer…

Safety Authority, stating that there is no scientific evidence that there is a risk to human and animal health or the environment. 10 years of European Union-funded research came to the same conclusions about Bt safety (Zhang, 2012). The so called “Golden Rice” is however the most noteworthy example in the global controversy. It is a GM variety of rice that produces beta-carotene in the endosperm, which enables humans to produce Vitamin A. This is important because Vitamin A deficiency (VAD)…

The GMO products have covered the whole world almost completely. GMO foods have been growing since they were invented. Therefore, it is concluded that industrialized food is good for you more than it is bad for you because it fights malnutrition and is very healthy. The first reason GMO is good for you is that it fights malnutrition. Even though this may be linked to dangerous effects, research is still needed for those subjects. Starving children die because of malnutrition. Tons of tons of…

My results did not support my hypothesis because the seeds that were with the regular coffee and the decaf coffee did not nearly grow as progressively as the seeds grown with water. Whereas I thought the seeds submerged in the coffee would grow more efficiently then the seeds with the water. Decaf grew at the slowest rate and after eight days only got to one centimeter, regular coffee grew to an also very low three centimeter, and water grew at a large 7.4 centimeters. These results were how…

Another reason GMOs aren’t very successful is because there are alternatives to these foods. Just because we have a new way to engineer and grow crops doesn’t mean we have to eat it. We have been developing agriculture for thousands of years, so we can choose not only our foods, but also how they are grown. The New Leaf potato ran into this problem. The New Leaf potato reduced the need for pesticides because of its genetic modification. It wasn’t successful because people had the ability to make…

1. What new technologies enabled the growth of interregional trade networks and agricultural developments? In this time period people made different technologies for different uses. Three things that are very useful are the compass, caravan, and the plow. The compass was more useful for trading. It was used to tell basic location using North, South, East, and West. It made getting to a location for trade much easier. The caravan could’ve been used for both trade and agriculture. It made…

Thresholds 1, 2, & 3: In threshold 1, 2, and 3 the beginning of the Greco-Roman universe was never truly empty, there was nothing but Chaos. Chaos as it was called, was described as darkness and disorder. According to Greco-Roman theory, there were no gods present in the beginning- though in time, a god of nature separated light and dark, soft and hard, weight from weightless, etc. The godly being separated those spaces with gods that we know of today. Then, 4 forces appeared fire, light, air…

Have you been to the store’s lately to buy meat? Well if so chances are that you picked up some Genetically Modified meats and I Am here to tell you some facts on why (GMO’S) are bad for the animals and the humans that eat It. Genetically modified animals in my opinion is bad because you could harm and even kill the animals. Another reason Is because, the humans that eat the genetically modified animals and at a risk to die because of what they put into the animals. most people think GMO…