Pesticide

by trying to make things easier on themselves. In her fable, the problem humans bring upon themselves is caused by using pesticides and herbicides to make crop growing easier. Trying to make things easier caused many problems with the life of the vegetation, the animals, and even with the humans. The vegetation, once so beautiful, turned to nothing by the use of the pesticides and herbicides; "Along the roads, laurel, viburnum and alder, great ferns and wildflowers, {is a delight to} the…

water in the creek was excellent. Even though the water quality in the U-High creek was excellent doesn’t mean that all creeks have great water quality. One way that water can be polluted is through fertilizers and pesticides. This happens because farmers use many fertilizers and pesticides to help their crops grow. Then when it rains, those chemicals can be washed through the soil and into rivers and creeks. If this happens and large amounts of chemicals are washed in the river, then the…

however, agriculture, specifically industrial agriculture has caused multiple environmental impacts. Compared to the other land uses, agriculture causes the most harm to the planet due to the use of inorganic fertilizers, machinery, irrigation, pesticides, monocultures, and the problem of overgrazing. In order to fix these impacts, solutions must be made and applied. Luckily, there are solutions for many of these problems. Now, there are numerous reasons why those problems cause environmental…

seeds, which have caused much concern because most people would consider their food unhealthy and toxic. Corn is a staple food used in many ways throughout the food industry. Growing it takes time, money, and lots of pesticides to protect the crops from bugs, vermin, and fungus. Pesticides made from big biotech companies are harmful for humans, animals, and the environment. Because bugs usually affect crops,…

Mentioned in the documentary the film Bananas! was sued by the Dole Food Company back in 2009. Dole sued filmmaker Fredrik Gertten on the grounds of defamation. The film was about Nicaraguan banana workers who sued their employers for exposing them to pesticides. Their employers were the Dole Food Company. The company sent many letters and tried to influence the Los Angeles Film Festival to not screen the film. When they failed to prevent the release of the movie they resorted to legal action…

specific pesticide known as DDT. Carson describes many environmental impacts that coincide with the widespread spraying of DDT in the United States, questioning the logic of the large use of this chemical without completely understanding the environmental and human complications that could potentially arise. Throughout, “Silent Spring” it is illustrated how DDT entered the food chain and then began accumulating into the tissues of animals along with humans. Carson concludes that pesticides…

GM food. First of all, Genetically Modified plants and crops help crops to have more resistances (Connect US the Global Issue Blog, 2015), which is combated the natural disease, less to depend on the pesticides. That mean GM food can lead to decreased use of pesticides, GM crops do not need pesticides to have stronger protection and resistance combat the different kinds of pests and ,insects that may destroy it, they can be modified to be resistant to herbicides, it will be more easier to…

chromated copper arsenate (CCA) is a group of pesticides containing chromium, copper, and arsenic that protects wood from termites, fungi, and other pests that degrade wood and make a building less safe, but is it really helping or would it be better if your deck collapses from being chewed and degraded by termites than using arsenic on the wood and poisoning you and your family. Chromated arsenicals have been used as a wood preservative pesticide since the 1940s that is a lot of…

What is a CAFO? Well that’s a simple question really; it’s short for Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations. It is the act of keeping animals in a confined area so that there is no risk of escaping and how “farmers” can maximize their land without having to pay more money. With the treatment of these animals so poorly, farmers are able to saved money and sell big with the small amounts of care given to the livestock . The animals are only able to get food from the handlers and can’t go out of…

at degrading pesticides when applied during certain weather conditions. (Mujeeb, Riaz, Muschtaq, Abbasi, & Ali, 2012). They do this by metabolizing the ingredients that make up the pesticides and returning them to a more simple form. (Mujeeb et al. 2012) This process works best at a slightly neutral to basic pH level and between 30 and 42 degrees Celcius (Mujeeb et al. 2012). The use of microbes to degrade pesticides could be a positive or negative factor. Overuse of pesticides can be a…