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Waiting for your green tomatoes to turn red before snow or ice kills your fruits can be such a frustrating period of time. By the way, how long does it take for tomatoes to turn red? Do you know? If yes, then you are such a brilliant farmer. If no, then well and good, here is your opportunity to enlighten yourself about the ripening process in these fruits that are sometimes considered vegetables by many. Ripening is not an easy process in tomatoes, making it difficult to predict exactly how…

Colonial cuisine was heavily influenced by the English at first, but soon developed its own style. Much of the food that was available in the colonies was uncommon in Great Britain and other areas of Europe, which led to adaptation problems with many of the people. The colonists did not have the equipment that people in Europe did, which led to new techniques and unique utensils. Throughout the different colonies, the food was usually unique to that area, because of the differences of economical…

The food industry was created with the intention of helping to sustain people around the world. Farmers are tasked with growing crops and raising livestock to provide the general public with food. However what was believed to be something pure in nature was tampered with by the hand of science. From injecting growth hormones into animals and genetically engineering vegetables and fruits to produce their own pesticide. The safety and purity of our food are in question because of this. It is…

Genetically Modified Organisms Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) are organisms that have been genetically altered so that they contain the DNA of another organism such as plants, insects, bacteria, or even humans. GMOs are different than crossbreeding in that crossbreeding takes two like organisms and naturally fuses the genes together, but GMOs take two unlike organisms and artificially force the DNA from one organism to another. Genetically Modified Organisms make up roughly eighty…

Should we raise genetically modified food? This questions have been argued for a long time. I am going to analyze the pro and cons of the Genetically Modified food. One of the pros of genetically modified food is a better taste, increased the nutrition of the food, resistance to disease and pets, and faster output of crops. The cons of the genetically modified food isn’t 100% safe because it violate the law of natural growth. What is genetically Modified food? Genetically Modified foods are…

GMOs are in almost everything we put into our bodies. Genetically Modified Organisms are put into the simplest of foods, like fruits, vegetables, meats, and even candy. According to Bill Freese at the Center for Food Safety “GMOs are present in 60 to 70 percent of foods on supermarket shelves; the vast majority of processed foods contain GMOs.” Genetically modified organisms were put into food to improve taste, quantity, and to save money. But what people do not know, is that GMOs act as toxins…

Introduction As the threats of climate change have increased, so has research on alternative energy. Alternative energy differs from classic fuel sources (i.e. coal, shale, natural gas) because it uses natural resources that has the ability to be consistently replaced; thus it is also termed “renewable energy.” “Biofuels” are a specific class of renewable energy that refers to biomass (versus other natural resources like sunlight) or harvested metabolites from living organisms that can be…

Both the types of food eaten, and the methods of obtaining these foods have now been discussed, however how enslaved Africans processed and cooked foods can tell a good deal about their cultural behaviours and influences. Although not much is known about processing techniques amongst enslaved Africans, there are a few studies that have highlighted how they processed corn through milling, and meat through butchery. John Solomon Otto’s (1984) study of the lives of enslaved Africans at Cannon’s…

Alejandro Candelario SFSU ID:916829191 Biology 100 10/14/16 Should genetically modified foods be labeled? Should genetically modified foods be labeled? They use GM on plants to grow our food. This is issue is very important because people should be to know what’s in the food they eat. They say the crops are environmentally safe and practically the same thing as an organic plant. For that reason they don’t believe GM foods should be labeled and consumers shouldn 't know. It has a very big…

When considering genetically modified (GM) organisms with the likes of its organic counterpart on a macroscopic view, there is almost no difference between the natural occurring organism and the GM organism. In contrast, the microscopic view, which takes into consideration factors like DNA sequences and other cellular components, provides subtle differences between genetically modified organisms and naturally occurring organisms. One subfield of GM organisms that gets constant recognition is…