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The luxury of being able to feed the world is overwhelming, more so that it blinds one's judgment. The long term effect of GMOs are unpredictable; they impose serious threats to health and people should have the right to determine whether they want to consume them or not. Putting one’s health into the hands of production companies does little to assure safety. The public is not aware of the dangers they are exposed to or the fact that they are potentially putting their life at risk. GMOs have…

There are many invasive species in the world. Invasive species is plants animals that are non-native to a location. (National Wildlife Federation) Invasive species can come from any place from around the world. Many people believed that the animals that are in the United States were always here but that is not necessarily true. A invasive species would be Bemisia Tabaci which is its scientific name but it is also known as the Silverleaf Whitefly. (National Agricultural Library) The original…

Genetically modified organisms, or more commonly known as “GMOs” are being ingrained into our food systems, even without our knowledge. The first genetically modified organism was created in 1974 and the first genetically modified food source was created in 1982. Since then, the food companies that produce a vast majority of our food and sell the food in supermarkets, have not been properly labeling their genetically modified products. This is an issue because, as consumers, we should be…

I observed nodules on the group of plants that had been inoculated. The presence of these nodules represents a successful inoculation. The non-inoculated group did not have nodules, indicating that no Rhizobia bacteria were present. In my hypothesis, I predicted that the plants with bacteria would grow taller, faster, and healthier than those plants without bacteria. My experimental data supports this hypothesis. With one exception, the inoculated plants were consistently taller than the…

Before completing this exercise, my initial position on genetically modified foods was that they were safe and healthy for people to eat. My character for the reacting to the past Africa game was the role as a Monsanto scientist who was on the pro-GMO faction side. One of the responsibilities for my character was to convince the Africans that there are no reasons scientifically that they shouldn’t accept corn. For my argument, I wrote that corn should be safe for Africans because they are…

Article #1: Labeling GM foods--the ethical way forward The author Michael Reiss believes that GMO labels should not be a requirement on food. One strong point of this article was how he explained difficult ideas and gave real life instances, therefore, the reader could have a better understanding. An example of this would be when the author compared his idea of labeling GMOs to taxes. “‘Do you want lower taxes?’ Most people will say yes. The real question is something like ‘Do you want lower…

People can achieve something great by banning together people are more powerful than they would be as individuals in the novel Lyddie is a fictional novel about the industrial revolution a time where people transferred over from handmade goods to machined goods in the book a mother who isn't in their right state of mind forcefully sends her too kids to work to pay a debt their father had left all those years ago however when the main character Lyddie is fired she goes to work in the factories to…

GMO Foods Negatively Impact the World There exists a future where our children are highly likely to be diagnosed with a chronic illness. At the frontier on this movement lies Genetically modified foods (GMO Foods.) A failed attempt to solve the problem of world hunger. A failure that leaves the world with contaminated non-GMO crops, health disorders, & more hunger. The world starves while large biotech companies sit on their huge bags of cash. Genetically Modified foods have been used to…

they traveled down this river. It is obvious that they could go to a different river, however, all rivers are polluted then where will they go? Eventually aquatic animals will die out just like the human race. Water, also plays an essential part in growing crops. Mike Kilen exclaims, “Yet his 4,500 acres farmed between family members are part of a government demonstration project using stream-side filters and cover crops for conservation.” In elementary school we learned that in order for crops…

The Columbian Exchange was a time after Christopher Columbus’s voyage to the New World, this is where the new and old world exchanged goods native to those lands. The word “Columbian” in the Columbian exchange comes from Christopher Columbus’s name. Goods like tomatoes and potatoes were a major Export to the Old World. Alternatively, A major import to the New world was Cattle (King, 2016). I was shocked to find out that one of the America’s major source of food is not Native to the lands. The…