Industrial agriculture

Monsanto says, “Twenty years from now, the earth’s population will need 55 percent more food than it can produce now.” How will farmers be able to meet this demand if they continue to produce the same amount of food as today? Genetically Modified Organisms and biotechnology can help meet this demand. Biotechnology is the study of cellular and biomolecular processes to develop technologies, products that help improve our lives, and the health of our planet. An example of an application of…

centuries. The middle and lower class was not introduced to the product until the Industrial Revolution was well under way. Sugar today has adjusted to our lifestyle, to our budget and all our basic consumer needs. Converting itself from a luxurious want to a necessity. Beef on the other hand converted our grain and wheat centered diet to one revolving purely on meat. This was converted around the time of the Industrial Revolution. The army and navy in fact consumed more than three fourths of a…

According to the World Food Program, nearly 795 million people in the world do not have enough food to lead a healthy active life and poor nutrition causes nearly 45% of deaths in children under five each year. The world’s population is growing at an unprecedented rate and with climate change, displacement, and epidemics, that number is expected to continue to grow. Many scholars and scientists believe that GMOs have the potential to solve the world’s food shortage issues by offering a quick,…

Our lesson begins with how our food production has developed, and, as doing so, how we destroyed the environment. One of the most prominent study on population was done by Tomas Robert Malthus. Born in 1766, he argued that since the rate of population growth and food supply growth are different, there will be more people than food. Fundamentally, he is claiming that food supply determines the population. This theory was the base that lead to Social Darwinism. However, Ester Boserup disagreed.…

2.1. Origin and Distribution of Cassava Cassava has its genetic, geographical and agricultural origin in Latin America. Its domestication began 5000 – 7000 years BC in the Amazon, Brazil (Alves, 2002) and it was distributed by Europeans to the rest of the world (Henry and Hershey, 2002). Cassava was taken from Brazil to the West coast of Africa by Portuguese traders in the 16th century (Jones, 1959; Nweke, 1994). Cassava is highly tolerant to drought. It is well adapted to areas with a long…

Recently, a large anti-agriculture organization by the name of PETA, has been rallying against factory and industrial farming by holding rallies, writing emotional articles, and through academic journaling in attempt to put an end to what they see as outrageous cruelty to animals that are domesticated in factory farms. Published just two years apart, in 2017 Timothy Hsiao wrote the well- rounded “Industrial Farming is Not Cruel to Animals” and in 2015 Yuval Harari, writes “Industrial Farming is…

Polyface Farm is successful due to its complex system. At first the farm was a wreck. Then the farm started to thrive. Pollen states in his essay 'The Animals: Practicing Complexity ', "but polyface is proof that people can sometimes do more for the health of a place by cultivating it rather than leaving it alone"(373). Organic farming will reach wonders and sooner or later, other farmers will be taking on the Polyface Farm system. There are many problems that this model can take on. Its a…

Fukuoka’s life as a natural farmer. Fukuoka resorts back to the original ways of farming, without machines, chemicals, fertilizers, preservatives, or growth hormones. Fukuoka explains how there are two different types of agriculture, scientific agriculture, and natural agriculture; proving how one method is superior to the other. Many people believe that new, modern day farming techniques improve the crops being grown; but that is not necessarily the case. Fukuoka explains how society needs to…

improvement of agricultural models that our society uses, which would supply farmers with a good ROI, work sufficiently, and our society would support. The article is informational, with many best practices that pertain to animal welfares importance on agriculture. This article use will be to understand and evaluate animal welfares need on dairy farms and the impact it has on a farm production. This article is peer-reviewed. Canada. National Farm Animal Care Council. (2009). Code of Practice.…

The Factual Jungle When Upton Sinclair wrote “The Jungle” he simply wanted a better-work environment and not for people to question what they were consuming. I believe that what Upton Sinclair wrote about the meat packing factories and the conditions of life in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s is true. Jurgis and his family lived their life similar to the actual real families in the height of this era according to Biennial Report of 1890. Even what Jurgis experienced everyday while working in…