The Golden City

Genetically modified organisms remain a controversial subject, due to the belief that there is not enough information known about them. However, there have been many studies conducted on the growth and success of GMOs. Specifically, a research group, GRACE, currently investigates which methods are most beneficial for assessing GMOs. They did many studies, sponsored by the European Commission, and two of these studies included a 90 day and 1 year feeding trial (“EU Research” 1). In the 90 day…

Chevrolet’s commercial, “Maddie”, emphasizes the use of animal companionship through their choice of dog breed, a golden retriever, which used to symbolize Chevy 's well-known reputation as a family car. Chevy takes advantage of the Golden Retriever’s reputation by making one the star of the Maddie Commercial. Chevy promotes their company through a heartfelt connection between a girl and her dog Maddie. Alluding to the idea…

When considering genetically modified (GM) organisms with the likes of its organic counterpart on a macroscopic view, there is almost no difference between the natural occurring organism and the GM organism. In contrast, the microscopic view, which takes into consideration factors like DNA sequences and other cellular components, provides subtle differences between genetically modified organisms and naturally occurring organisms. One subfield of GM organisms that gets constant recognition is…

Analyzing and Applying Aristotle’s Golden Mean Aristotle’s Golden Mean was summarized wonderfully by Christopher Brown, “Aristotle’s Golden Mean is the concept of the perfect medium between extremes” (Brown). According to Aristotle, moderation is a keystone of virtuous behavior. Moderation is relative to each person. Aristotle suggests that each person temper their own styles and extremes (Adler and Proctor II). For example, if a person was naturally easy to anger, then that person should…

Guns, Germs, and Steel Inequality in the world has stemmed from geographic luck. When an area has a stable food supply, it’s people can spend extra time on inventing new things. Some areas have fertile soil, and crops that are nourishing and easy to harvest. However, other places are not so lucky, with dry soil and crops that have little nutritional value. Jared Diamond, an ecologist and anthropologist, has a theory that all inequality in the world started from the idea of “geographic luck”. Or…

be discussing the advantages and the disadvantages of golden rice. Golden rice is hereditary adjusted rice that now contains a lot of A-vitamins. More accurately, the rice contains the component beta-carotene which is changed over in the body into Vitamin-A. So when you eat golden rice, you get more vitamin A. Beta-carotene gives carrots their orange shading and is the motivation behind why genetically modified rice is golden. For the golden rice to make beta-carotene three new qualities are…

use their skills to make other benefits for themselves by giving out some of their finished products say a male calabash or a drinking horn as gifts especially to visiting elites of their tribe and in turn, such elites will give them items from the city like hot drinks or money in appreciation for the gifts they receive. here, although reciprocity is not expressly intended in such exchange, it is however practiced as gifts objects are never truly free. This safeguard the economic interest…

Genetically Modified Foods have various different advantages to the environment and agriculture such as them having the ability to generate a better outcome on crop production, producing a great quality crop while using less harmful chemicals to produce them. However, there is a lot of research about whether they are entirely beneficial as they have many negative aspects especially on the environment and on nature. The hazardous compounds they contain which have a negative impact on the…

brown rice, sticky rice, and long-grain rice. They are all good for the human need, but what about the “Golden Rice”? In “Can GMOs Help End World Hunger?”, by John Robbins, the author explains how genetically engineered rice has failed to help the world hunger, and what he has discovered as the real purpose of Monsanto. At the beginning Robbins has used reliable sources to inform what was the “golden rice,” and he has well explained the advantage and disadvantage throughout the paragraphs. He…

The following are some of the problems facing Scott Deter and Ventria. They are trying to produce and market genetically modified rice in the state of California. In a previous case called “Prodigene”, genetically modified corn was produced then the following year soybeans were produced. In the same field, volunteer corn, sprouted from the previous season’s corn amongst the soybeans. This is just one way ordinary food can be contaminated with genetically modified food. The article listed that…