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Genetically Modified Foods Genetically Modified Foods is what the future of this world will look like. Many people are not well informed about the beneficial facts GMOs can bring to our health, the farming environments, and world hunger. Genetic modification can transform the number of nutrients we put in our body, can cooperate with rapid climate changes, and most importantly, will solve the major conflict of world hunger. What are GMOS? Where did they come from? GMOS represent genetically…

comes from an economic background and holds the U.S’s success as a top priority. If America, even enter a trade war with China, America would easily win due to China's dependence on certain American goods like aluminum, steel, computer chips, and soybeans. These conditions would allow local American business to thrive and grow.…

Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) are organisms in which the genetic material (DNA) has been altered in a way that does not occur naturally (Genetically Modified, 2006). GMOs are produced by forcing DNA from one organism into another. Soybeans, corn, canola, plums, and rice are few of the GMOs occurring in our world. Products continue to be developed and experimented in laboratories. Naturally modified organisms bring up the question about GMOs and if there is a difference between the two.…

Is it worse to harm the animals or harm the Earth? But what if harming the animals harms the Earth as well? The idea of human impact on the earth is prominent in Margaret Atwood’s novel Oryx and Crake. The novel demonstrates that poor sustainability of the planet, such as deforestation, decreased biodiversity, increased greenhouse gas emissions, and the spread of disease harmful diseases, is due to unethical practices on animals, which include genetically modifying organisms, seen through…

Thomas Malthus, an English economist in 1798 predicted that with an exponentially growing population and an increase in food production, the world would not be able to sustain itself. Luckily this prophecy has not come true, but with the threat still looming, people are doing whatever they can to keep up with the ever growing increase in population. One of the revolutionary techniques to combat world starvation is genetically modified organism (GMO). A GMO is a plant, animal or other organism…

modified crops are a good investment for farmers around the world; farmers in developing countries earn about $3.74 for every dollar spent and in $3.04 in developed countries. (Brookes & Barfoot) “The annual gain from adoption of herbicide tolerant soybean varieties in 1999 was between $500 million and $1.1 billion… the gain in 2001 was $1.25 billion.”(Zilberman) The average yield increase per acre of GM cotton in developing countries is above fifty percent and thirty- five percent for GM corn.…

Brazil’s growing population is spread throughout it’s rural areas, the agricultural expansions taking place of the past few decades have exceeded the expectations and have resulted in a massive increase in food supplies. Food availability in Brazil is enough to provide and distribute among it’s population, therefore, the lack of access to receive food isn’t because of the lack of availability but their wage they receive. This then serves another problem in Brazil as 16 million people throughout…

Corn is the natural product that starts the base of nearly 80% of the food products that we consume on a regular basis. Farmers must overproduce in order to make up the financial losses that occur in the process of selling the corn to the distributors. Farmers get caught in this continuous cycle referred to as the Naylor Curve. The Naylor Curve described by Michael Pollan provides explanation behind why processed sweetener has overtaken the food industry. High fructose corn syrup is the…

The reason people want to get patents is to protect the inventor by allowing them the exclusive ability to make, sell and use their invention (Morgan) Under the Patent Act of 1970 a patent must satisfy two basic requirements: the creation must be novel or original and it can not have been previously patented US or any country, it also cannot appear in prior art, all public information that might germane to the applicants novelty (Morgan). Based on these requirements I do think that business can…

Tactical Nuke Incoming The chance of nuclear weapons taking out all life in the world is growing higher and higher. After the Cold war the US and Russia mutually agreed on reducing their number of nuclear weapons. They knew the terrible repercussions of nuclear war so Reagan and Gorbachev agreed on the INF treaty. We must follow their steps in order to have a safer world. Nuclear weapons should be reduced because the threat of nuclear winter and even worse risks are too extreme. One of the…