Herbicides

The main chemicals causing poisoning of wildlife are herbicides and pesticides from garden and park run off. Sewage out fall can cause excessively high nutrient levels and pathogens that can be harmful to all marine life. An excess of nutrients may cause, toxic algal blooms or extreme plant growth that will…

When corn is first planted, farmers immediately introduce the buds to a modified spay called “liberty”, which is a herbicide that destroys and prevents weeds from growing in the corn patches. This chemical is a toxin that humans and animals consume without any knowledge of what it is blended into, let alone the long term affects it can possess. According to the King Corn…

According to ConnectUS, genetically modified foods are produced from organisms that have had new genes added to them themselves from other organisms. The organisms then receive desirable traits that may allow them to not only resist herbicides, but also be protected from pest and enrich our nutrition in a more efficient way. As a result, many persons across the world has questioned whether or not, Genetically Modified Foods Safe to Consume. The National Academy of Sciences has remove all…

Tradition and Command of Corn Corn as we know it, has a unique quality which allows for its multiple uses. Although, many people see corn as just a dietary staple, it has other uses such as, biofuels, sweeteners, and other products. In fact, about 25% of the items in a grocery store contain corn in some form. However, most of the corn produced goes to feeding animals, resulting in the need for this commodity for our protein intake. Not everyone takes into account the importance of corn or the…

to change the way they live. Has Carson succeeded in her attempt to change people’s behavior involving environmental issues? There are many ways that Carson has made changes in how people think about the problem of pesticides, insecticides, and herbicides. You may ask, how is Carson successful in her attempt? Carson has spread so much awareness of the problem that she talks about in Silent Spring. Eliza Griswold from the New York Times tells us (2012), Silent Spring has sold over two million…

In An Edible History of Humanity, (chapters 9-12) Standage discusses how food essentially causes warfare, including creating nourishment protection strategies for military purposes. Standage also talks about the Green Revolution, a leap forward in cultivating advancements and systems that happened in the 1940s to generally the 1970s which incredibly expanded crop yields. In this last piece of the novel we read about food and its role in war, the discovery of Ammonia, and the Green Revolution.…

GMOs are genetically modified organisms. There are lots of arguments about whether they are safe to eat or not. Most of the food we eat is GM. So are they safe to eat? Do the benefits outweigh the risks? Should they be labeled? I say yes to all three. I think that GMOs are safe to eat. "There currently is no evidence that there are material differences or safety concerns in available bioengineered foods." (FDA and AMA) though there have been some environmental uncertainty, like what makes the…

Genetic engineering refers to the artificial modification of the genetic code of a living organism. Genetic engineering changes the fundamental physical nature of the organism, sometimes in ways that would never occur in nature. Genes from one organism are inserted in another organism, most often across natural species boundaries. Some of the effects become known, but most do not. The effects of genetic engineering which we know are ususally short-term, specific and physical. The effects we do…

Seattle's American-Japanese garden The Kubota Garden was established in the 1930s by Mr. Fujitaro Kubota. Mr. Kubota emigrated to the United States in 1907, established the Kubota Gardening Company in 1923, and purchased five acres of logged-off swamp land in the Rainer Beach neighborhood in 1927. As Fujitaro's landscaping business prospered, his Rainier Beach garden grew to include twenty aces. It was the family home, the business office, the design and display center. And it was a nursery to…

Despite the rapid growing pace of the modern world’s industrialization, the issues we are confronted with are becoming increasingly severe. While the GDP growth is rising in a stupendous trajectory, the probability of a forthcoming catastrophe happening caused by negative outcomes of the industrialization is rising simultaneously. For instance, pollution is a negative outcome produced by the rapid industrialization. Pollution is the contaminated of a natural environment that can cause diverse…