Industrial agriculture

hunger. The world is becoming more educated and tolerant of genetically modified food, such that any health concerns about GMOS are outweighed by the benefits. There are various kinds of GMOS, however I will be discussing GMOS as it relates to agriculture needs. Genetically modified organism is a product of genetic engineering of plant and animals which doesn’t occur naturally. There are many methods of GMOS but polymerase…

genetically engineering organisms to contain better genes within agriculture? Over the past decades gene engineering has been a huge topic of discussion between the public. Questions have erupted on whether the benefits from GMOs (genetically modified organism) outway the problems and on whether it is morally right to modify creatures for humans satisfaction. With a little education one will find that gene manipulation should be used in agriculture to ensure that farmers can produce the best…

Disappearing forests are a common occurrence in today’s day and age, an occurrence that is disastrous and harmful not only to humans, but to every living creature on Earth. It isn’t just the beauty of nature that the Earth is losing, and neither is it merely the loss of oxygen the trees provide. Forests contribute to far more essential processes than most people believe. Without the root systems of forests, clean water would be a hard thing to come by. This is because “In addition to their…

Over the past decade, the United States of America has seen an increase in genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and herbicidal crops. With the rise of GMOs in the United States, a chasm has been created between scientific evidence and the public 's perception of GMOs. On one side, scientifical research has not concluded that GMOs are a health risk but also there is no proof that GMOs are completely safe for consumer consumption. Anti-GMO activists are also on the rise, protesting that GMOs are…

In what once known as one of the most fertile areas of the United States, one of the Country’s most destructive agricultural disasters took place. Due to droughts and no rain, crops did not grow, leaving the soil exposed to the high winds that hit the area in the 1930s. Extending over a 150,000 square mile land and including parts of five states, Texas, Oklahoma, western Kansas, the eastern Colorado and New Mexico, the Dust Bowl was a period where more than 100 million acres of land of terrains…

Significant Differences in How Civilizations Spread their Influence Civilization entails reorganizing the human society besides transforming social development into what the present people refers to as the most advanced stage. Different nations use several parameters to differentiate levels of civilization into various degrees. Parameters include food, national security, infrastructure, religion, and economic status of a country, education systems, and cultural practices. Therefore, the spread…

discontinued. With the continuing growth in our population, there is a demand for more factory farms and more food production. “People in the developing world eat 32 kilograms of meat a year on average, compared to 80 kilograms per person in the industrial world” ("We Continue...”). Discontinuing factory farms will decrease the consumption of meat which means a decrease of methane being produced along with a decrease of global warming. “The methane that cattle and their manure produce have a…

Food insecurity and consequent vulnerability are the complex socioeconomic and political issue than just related to access to food (Fullbrook, 2010) or poverty. In Uganda, all the prevailing determinants of food insecurity have long-run social and economic consequences, e.g., child malnutrition and adult illness that resulted in a lower earning capacity for the present-day and the future generation, losses in domestic productivity, that presumably continues in perpetuity (Ahamad et al., 2013).…

and transported around the world and how much energy it takes to get food from its origin to your plate. Our aptitude to obtain food with ease is our most treasured resource, but regrettably our present structures of food production, especially agriculture, are causative to the failing strength of the world’s air and water, while concurrently subject to climate change. It is near impossible and time consuming on a decade scale to repair our past century’s damages to the Earth’s lands, oceans,…

We, in the United States are meant eaters. Today’s news is often filled with the effects and causes of global warming, with the main focus being related to carbon gas (CO2) emissions, reducing oil-based and coal energy usage. By comparison, what is not well known or often reported, is the tremendous impact of raising farm animals, mostly cows and chicken, for food production, the strain on resources, carbon emission, and the corresponding toxic run-off, to name a few. By further investigating…