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    future life… but using and producing Gmos might do just that. Gmos or genetically modified crops are plants that are harvested with certain chemicals (Borel 57) that add flavor to foods. However, questions about Gmo's effect on the environment, the human body, and the worldwide economy. Gmos will harm people’s overall lives through the environment, t and the economy. First off, Gmo’s will hurt the environment. “Clearly, Gmo’s won’t fix the food shortage problem… However, gmo plants release…

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    Denise Dearing Summary

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    Overview 9 Denise Dearing focuses on how animals consuming plants can avoid the deadly toxin. Mammals synthesize biocompound to counteract toxins. She works with woodrats because there are over 20 different species and they can feed on a variety of different diets. Woodrats drag plants back to their mittens and those items serve as info for many researchers to recreate the flora of the desert. Dearing’s lab focuses on liver enzymes because it allow them to look at the mRNA while the rats are fed…

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    The Curse Of Roundup

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    profitable product and defines its rise from near bankruptcy as a result of Agent Orange in the 70s. “The Millions Against Monsanto campaign was created to fight Monsanto for creating Agent Orange and Roundup (glyphosate) and other toxins that threaten human health and the environment” (Millions Against Monsanto). Roundup has facilitated Monsanto’s rise as the top seed producing company, which holds all the rights and patents to seeds to the extent that farmers cannot replant their seeds, and…

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    Although antibiotic regulation will slow down the spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria and benefit the whole human population from superbug infections, there are still some people who believe that antibiotics should not be regulated. Their main claims are that such regulation is harmful for economic reasons. For example, it will increase the price of meat products and encourage industrial farms to use other dangerous methods to cut down the operating cost. Despite the fact that they provide…

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    Germination Lab

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    According to the book “Raising Seedlings of Tropical Trees,” a seed should have a certain amount of space between itself and another seed. “No closer than 1 cm to each other, and often 5–25 cm apart, to allow each plant enough room” (Longman, 2003). The thing the author is talking about leaving room for would be germination. For our group’s experiment, we hypothesized that putting a seed next to another seed will have no effect on the rate of germination. Germination can be defined as the…

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    According to agricultural researcher Charles Benbrook,Ph.D., 1.6 billion kilograms of Roundup have been spewed globally since 1971. (One kilogram is approximately 2.2 pounds.) With more than 90% of USA corn grown from genetically engineered seeds, there’s little doubt that, whoever’s crunching corn chips that aren’t organic, are munching glyphosate in every bite. A Frito-Lay product fits the category, as Natural News reports. “Recent tests conducted on Frito-Lay’s SunChips product revealed the…

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    DDT Research Paper

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    Identification of human carcinogen (DDT) DDT (dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane) is a pesticide derived from chlorinated hydrocarbon. DDT‘s history dates back to 1940’s, the use of this pesticide eventually peaked in the 1960’s. However due to its detrimental effects on human health and wildlife, it was banned from the United States market in 1972. DDT like other chlorinated hydrocarbon is a very stable compound and hence, tends to be more persistent in the environment. DDT is also known as a…

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    Hello, Im Jamie this is the year of 2075. Today in my reading class we had to write a essay about someone important to us and also state well known facts about them and tell what they have did and how they did it and how it helps in today's life. I choose to write about a special women named Lynette Brown, she is like my favorite piece of candy she’s a LIFESAVER . Literally what she did for the world was amazing, she saved lives she's my hero, She’s everyone's hero well she should be in my…

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    been a sign that these products are not as safe as the are announced to be, it should have been the end of GMO’s there and then. But that was not the case, because I believe the biotech industry, FDA, and many scientists put money and profits above human welfare and health to allow these products onto our dinner…

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    only mammals in the world who consume milk after childhood.We have millions of dairy farms around the world yet we produce our own milk we can drink. Why should we abuse animals for milk when we have our own. Animal milk should not be consumed by humans for many reasons. The dairy farm industry is one of the most profiting companies in america. There are corporate lobbyist for the dairy farms, that lobby not only doctors but, pharmaceutical companies allowing them to believe that milk contains…

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