Pesticide resistance

The controversy around pesticides use! Reading all the different articles in the American Earth book highlighted many important issues and concerned about our society regarding the environment and its impact on our health and the health of the wildlife around us. Though, I can say that the one topic that made me really stop to think and felt that it hits closer to home, was the one about pesticides. After all my dad died 4 years ago because of stomach cancer. What did my dad eat, and how safe…

In the essay “Why Organic Foods Are Worth the Cost,” author Alex Garcia argues the cost of organic food and discusses why the idea of organic food and farming is better for not only the environment but also for the people who take it in. Organic food is emphasized a lot on the Food Network Channel on Iron Chef of America and Top Chef. Many people believe that organic food is just a sticker. Supermarkets put a little sticker on packages to show that the products are all natural or organic.…

Pesticide is useful for managing agricultural pests around this world. They kill and repel pests to protect the plants and crops, but also cause a lot of human deaths each year. A pesticide is any substance used to kill, repel, or control certain forms of plant or animal life that are considered to be pests. It includes insecticides for controlling a wide variety of insects, fungicides used to prevent the growth of molds and mildew, disinfectants for preventing the spread of bacteria, and…

Native Vs. Invasive Grasses Do you know what invasive species mean? Well an invasive species is a non-native species that has very few predators, can reproduce quickly, introduces by humans, and cause havoc on a ecosystem they also cause problems for the other natural species in the area. While on the other hand there is native species which are species with a niche in their environment and is in their natural place. One native grass here in the U.S. is Giant Needle Grass and an invasive grass…

Would we really want to lose the iconic Monarch butterfly? Your children love their display in most zoo exhibits, as well as chasing their flight patterns in your local parks. They are great pollinators. They also grace us with their gorgeous annual migration to the south during the late summer/autumn (Monarch Butterfly, 1999). By continuing forward with Genetic Modification, losing all that is one of the potential risks. If the pollen from a plant or tree could cause the Monarch caterpillar to…

The Species-Rank abundance curve for Run (Figure 1.) and Riffle (Figure 2.) treatment shows similar relationship between rank abundance and log10 abundance for dominance preemption and the observed data. Since the data in both treatments resembled the Dominance preemption model, species assemblages are unstable. The dominance preemption model supposes that the first species to invade the communities of relatively few species where a single environmental factor is of dominating importance. Only…

Pesticides are still used. Organic uses "botanical pesticides"which have been defined by the in the Organic Food Production Act as natural pesticides derived from plants. These pesticides are thought of as safer however there is no clear depiction. Simple using the poison of a plant does not mean it is safer. The Chrysanthemum cinerariaefolium is popularly used as a common pesticide and the derived from the powder on the flower heads. Although…

section, I followed up with the British Journal of Nutrition where 343 scientific studies were done on organic foods. I felt the 343 studies followed nicely behind the section stating that organic foods do not have the cancer causing agents such as pesticides, metal toxins, and chemical additives. Moving on from the British Journal of Nutrition section, I thought it would be necessary to remind the reader that many non-organic foods have the potential of having four cancer causing chemicals…

From the early 1900s, Zonolite vermiculate mine was a primary worldwide that produce 80 percent of vermiculite production. However, the toxicity that was not clarified from government and mining fill to the miners were slowly killing in the town, Libby. Based on the article, A Town Left to Die, written by Andrew Schneider, it depicted how people suffer from the toxins in the air, asbestos, which came from the vermiculate mining. Agent What agent was responsible for the illness in the Libby…

http://The article “Switchgrass naturally removes toxic PCB pollution from soil,” talks about how switchgrass can help the toxic levels of Polychlorinated biphenyls also known as PBCs. This chemical was used widespread by many industrial factories and was banned by Congress in 1979, but it still lingers in soil severely in some parts of the United States to this day andvery toxic to living creatures. Researchers have found that when swithcgrass is paired with a PCB-oxidizing microorganism also…