Pollination

The Documentary Food Inc. examines the current issues with the food industry in American. It shows how we have changed from a need-based form of production and consumption to a want and desire production and consumption base, where the large industry leaders produce as much as possible for as little cost possible. The documentary suggested that the move towards an industrial food system started with McDonalds, and the move that got rid of their waitresses and invented the drive through. This cut…

For years, the health and safety of genetically modified foods have been debated and researched by scientists, but the question still stands: should genetically modified foods be allowed for consumption? The process of genetic modification involves inserting a gene from bacteria or a virus into an organism where it would normally not be found. The purpose is to alter the genetic code in plants and animals to make them more productive or resistant to pests or farming techniques. Genetically…

If vegans try so hard to emulate the tastes of meats and animal products, the healthy way is to just consume the real thing. The popularity of becoming a vegan has risen in the past decade because of organizations falsely “exposing” the meat and the meat-packing industries. Those industries and the government have heavily regulated systems and laws in favor of treating the animals justly, and many studies have been done by the companies to make sure that they are doing so. For example, many…

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…

Plant Protection Assignment 5N2546 A. Pest and disease control measures and legislative control practices. 1. Describe five specific situations where pest and disease control measures are required. (5 pests) Slugs Symptoms The first signs that slugs are in your garden is probably that the leaves on plants are ripped or tore and that there are visible slime trails on the ground. Control measures Slugs can be dealt with in a number of different ways. They can be removed by…

According to the “Ecosystem Services” (Daily, 1997) article, ecosystem services support life through purification of air and water, generation and preservation of soils and renewal of their fertility, detoxification and decomposition of wastes, and pollination of crops and natural vegetation maintenance of biodiversity. Toxic chemicals are released…

Article #1: Labeling GM foods--the ethical way forward The author Michael Reiss believes that GMO labels should not be a requirement on food. One strong point of this article was how he explained difficult ideas and gave real life instances, therefore, the reader could have a better understanding. An example of this would be when the author compared his idea of labeling GMOs to taxes. “‘Do you want lower taxes?’ Most people will say yes. The real question is something like ‘Do you want lower…

aspect. With the creation of GMOs they have caused a big environmental impact. They have caused toxics to target bees, butterflies, and etc. With this happening it is causing bees and butterflies to die and if bees die they can't be there to make pollination on our many food crops. GMOs were met to help but are slowly killing other important things that we need. " Toxic residues are left in the soil of GM crops. Nutrients are not returned to the soil in mono crops and from GMO foods, meaning…

Species And Why it Matters If They Become Extinct According to the famous definition by Ernst Mayr, a species is said to be “a group of interbreeding natural populations that are reproductively isolated from other such groups (Ridley)”. This quotation defines the biological species concept that is a largely accepted definition of a species. The human population is increasingly becoming a reckless civilization with no regard for the actions we follow therefore the concept of a species becoming…

Garrett Zaborowski English 015 April 20th, 2015 The Negatives of GMOs Our world’s society is technologically advancing constantly. The food industry is having technological advances by using genetically modified foods also known as GMOs, which defined by The World Health Organization (WHO) as organisms whose DNA has been altered in a non-natural way. GM plants are usually modified to be insect resistant, virus resistance, or herbicide tolerant. There are many pros and cons about GMOs. The start…