Sustainable agriculture

Why it is that organic food is a better choice than non-organic food? The descriptive term Organic is a new idea that popped up in the 1940 's when J.I Rodale started a magazine called Organic Gardening and Farming, but it did not really become popular until the 1960 's. In 1962, Rachel Carson wrote a book called Silent Spring. In Silent Spring she talked about a pesticide, named DDT.DDT was a dangerous pesticide used to kill mosquitoes in the 1960 's. After Rachel Carson wrote that book, most…

Strategic vision of Jim Hindmarsh and Co. For Jim Hindmarsh and Co there is a vision which isn't documented and only the higher levels of staff know of this vision. A vision was constructed by research on major agricultural companies and what their perceive to be a company vision, as well as the future aspirations of Jim Hindmarsh the owner of Jim Hindmarsh and Co. The vision statement constructed is ‘To be recognised as a leading stock and station agent that benefits livestock producers in…

Animal Protection and the Farm Animal Initiative have developed a project called the Model Farm Project in effort to promote humane farming internationally. The WAP link, “Farm Animal Welfare,” argues that humane farming is both profitable and sustainable. The WAP asserts that keeping farms moderately sized creates jobs, reduces pollution and environmental damage (and expensive clean up efforts), and raises profits because healthy animals are less costly to maintain. In terms of animal welfare,…

Murders To Our Own Death Do you think the benefits of industrial agriculture outweigh the harms? If you were asked if industrial farming is better than organic farming, would you be able to explain why? Industrial farming has been taking over the agriculture industry, while also killing our planet at the same time. Before the argument is started let us begin with some background information. Industrial farming has been around since 1930s; once the fast food industry started to become popular.…

After the Civil War ended, 15 years later moving to the west is a good idea. Due to economic conditions, in terms of jobs, working as a farmer would be the most reasonable with good profit as well. Considering all the criteria to be a farmer isn’t that hard, simply growing crops and selling isn’t as tough as being a miner or cowboy (more work). Being a farmer at the time has its benefits alongside its difficulties. There were quite the benefits after the Civil War that helped farmers such as…

The Lack of Sustainable Nutritious Food Solutions Due to Unethical Governance via Land Grabbing for Industrial Agriculture The Land Grab is a prime example of unethical behavior. Government that is intended to enhance the lives of its citizens, but instead ends up “farming them out,” selling them a bill of goods that is not for the citizen’s benefit, but themselves (Verma, 2014). While considering Land Grab tactics, I wonder if Kantian Ethics are applicable. I have serious doubts that the…

problem. A potential aggravator of many of these environmental issues is the reliance on animal agriculture as a source of food. Raising livestock is…

cannot take place without the exchange of information and are often heavily dependent on the availability of suitable finance. Agricultural marketing Agricultural marketing: The term agricultural marketing is composed of two words-agriculture and marketing. Agriculture, in the broadest sense means activities aimed at the use of natural resources for human welfare, and marketing connotes a series of activities involved in moving the goods from the point of production to the point of consumption.…

Global Food Supply system vs. Short Food Supply Chain (SFSC) The food supply chain explains the processes of production, processing, distribution, consumption, and disposal. Whereas the short food supply chain associates to the geographical distances or numbers of links in the supply chain (Friedmann & McNair, 2008, 248), involving the different schemes of direct sale from farmers to consumers. As Marsden et al mentions in the analysis of three main types of short food supply chain:…

of the drought on agriculture in the Southwest will create economic hardship that will impact millions of Americans. 1. University of California Davis 2015 report estimates California’s continued drought stricken agricultural industry will negatively impact to the state’s economy by about $1.84 billion, and lose an estimated ten thousand seasonal jobs (Kerlin). 2. “Increased heat and changes to rain and snowpack will send ripple effects throughout the region’s critical agriculture sector,…