Industrial agriculture

communities. The exercise of power within the agricultural industry and throughout the environmental justice movement has a major influence on policy and decision-making in the United States. Agriculture has been a vital part of human survival…

Land degradation is a general deterioration of land, decreasing its productivity and biodiversity. The causes of land degradation include the deforestation, cropland agriculture and overgrazing and it affects up to 1/3 of the world’s people. The United States is not freed from the negative impact that overgrazing has on our soil capability to continue supporting crops and livestock. The overgrazing has impacted the semi-arid Midwestern states and ranchers know about the need to rotate livestock…

Task 8 Animal Agriculture Did you know that animal agriculture is responsible for more than 18% of greenhouse gas emissions? That's more than the combined exhaust from all transportation! Transportation exhaust is responsible for 13% of all greenhouse gas emissions. Livestock is responsible for 65% of all human-related emissions of nitrous oxide (a greenhouse gas with 296 times the global warming potential of carbon dioxide, which stays in the atmosphere for 150 years. That is a lot going on and…

Monsanto’s herbicide Roundup is one of 750 U.S. products containing the active ingredient glyphosate, the safety of which has been disputed for years. Glyphosate is a non-selective herbicide used widely in large-scale agriculture, forestry and industrial weed control, and in lawn and garden care. Glyphosate is also known as a “systemic” herbicide, meaning that it is absorbed into every part of the plant, from the roots to the leaves. Evidence suggests that glyphosate may pose animal and human…

statement “Russia’s agriculture changed little in the years 1894 to 1914”. I believe Russia’s agriculture went through little change, prior to 1905 and the Russian revolution, even though 80-90% of the peasants in Russia where farming the land, and it contributed to a huge majority of the Russian economy. But I believe post revolution, Stolypin and his reforms led to the development of Russia’s agriculture, with 1906 being a very important year in the development of Russia’s agriculture, with…

conclude that grass-fed beef is contains higher amounts of “cancer fighting antioxidants” and a “more desirable” saturated fatty acid (SFA) profile than beef from grain-fed animals (Daley et al, 2010). The authors, all affiliated with College of Agriculture, California State University, University of California Cooperative…

For my honors enrichment project, I have choose to do a photo contest. The photo contest I entered in was the Zeiss. The picture I entered in the contest was a marsh which I took when I visited Pinckney Island. Marshes are usually found on the edge of a stream, pond, or lake. They often flood and if the surrounding area gets too dry, they feed the water from the flood back to stream, pond, or lake. A marsh is a type of wetland, an area of land where water covers ground for long periods of time.…

While Mao’s political agenda is often derided, the challenges he tackled and achieved success over in his early years of leadership are overlooked by many. China had faced a weak central government under the Qing Dynasty Mao provided a strong central government that alleviated poor conditions subsequent to Imperial China. Mao intended to bring social reforms, improve sanitation, reducing the spread of disease and bridge the gap of gender inequality by introducing women’s rights. Essentially, as…

“Worldwide, agriculture accounts for 70% of all water consumption, compared to 20% for industry and 10% for domestic use.” (Dadax, 1) This shows that…

The birth of agriculture was the moment when humans stopped chasing their food and started raising it. Some say this time frame would be around 8,500 BC. Through centuries of time, the minds of agriculture have been changing directions and as changes occur, so do people’s views on healthy agriculture. Two of the largest agricultural diversities faced in today's society are Heirloom and Modified (GMO) seeds. These two groups hold great controversy on how the other should raise agriculture, both…