Transgenic maize

Did you know that a salad can kill you? Today in America, a large amount of food that we eat is grown in other countries. The producers or growers of the food ship it to America where we then distribute it to wholesalers. Along the shipping route, there is great chance that contamination of the food may occur. This contamination can lead to gastroenteritis, a condition with unpleasant symptoms and could even lead to death. In today’s lecture I was more surprised about the other ways that food…

With the family surnames of Rasmussen and Anderson it is clear that the beginnings of my Family of Origin are mainly Danish, so describing my family as a taco might be shocking. Both, my family and a taco are structurally cohesive. (Olson, 2000) We have boundaries, yet we aren’t enmeshed. Often the ingredients try to slip out of the tortilla and some ingredients can be eaten without anything added or taken away from them, such as cheese. When each ingredient is included and stays in the taco…

Author methane sates, ““things did not get better. If they did, I did not notice it. Gradually, I came to accept hunger as a constant companion.”# Hunger however would inlay be one aspect of the harsh living. Living conditions were also another aspect that made life in this region quite difficult. Author Mathabane states, “Winter came, and turned out to be a very bad one. Our shack – like most shacks throughout Alexandria – had no heat, electricity, or plumbing, and we had no stove, so my mother…

Looking at the Fromm Dog Food Company: The Fromm pet food company has been a privately owned and family operated company since 1904. It’s now into the fifth generation with Tom Nieman as the company president, owner, and head chef, since 1983. I think a pedigree like that is hard to beat! It was the first premium pet food company in the United States, and now it’s the oldest! Fromm makes all their dry dog food right in their own family-owned-and-operated plants in Wisconsin. Their low-fat…

Popcorn was domesticated in 5000 BCE by the Pre-Columbian indigenous people. It arrived in the American Southwest over 2500 years ago, but wasn’t found east of the Mississippi River until the early 1800s because of environmental and botanical variables. Prior to the 19th century, Midwestern soil couldn’t grow corn. The invention of the steel plow turned the Midwest into the corny oasis it is today. As popcorn popularity surged, various popcorn snacks were invented and it brought new intensity to…

The current cultivation of genetically modified food is divided into two categories which is pest resistant transgenic foods and herbicide resistant GM foods(Cokburn, 2002). Farmers choose to grow these two types of genetically modified foods because they reduce the cost of production, the potential benefits of environmental protection(Cokburn, 2002). Insect resistant transgenic crops can resist the invasion of main pests, reduce the use of pesticides, reduce pollution and ecological damage…

Tomatoes, soy, sugar, and cotton do not have much in common… or do they? All of these food items are all on a list that claims these are a part of the Top Ten GMO food. The WHO (World Health Organization) describes GMOs (genetically modified organisms) as “organisms (i.e. plants, animals or microorganisms) in which the genetic material (DNA) has been altered in a way that does not occur naturally by mating and/or natural recombination” (Frequently Asked Par. 2). A movement has taken hold called…

Evans-Pritchard, and Nuer Journeys, Nuer Lives, by Jon D. Holtzman, the lives of pastoralists in southern Sudan are discussed. In the selection by Evans-Pritchard, we learn about a group who’s social and economic structures rely heavily on cattle. Cattle cannot be tended by a single family alone, so several families may tend and protect their cattle together. The cattle belong to the head of the household, and even among his death, the family is reluctant to break up the herd, at least until…

Although genetically modified crops have proven to be successful, many people show opposition towards them. The biggest concerns regarding these genetically modified crops include the affect they have on human health and their effect on the environment (Newton 88). In 2012, the Grocery Manufactures Association estimated more than seventy-five percent of processed foods contain genetically modified organism. Because of the unknown effects of the increasing use of GMOs in food and the customers’…

Background: Genetically modified foods are foods in which their DNA has been altered in a specific way, by humans, in order to reveal a specific trait that changes the growth time, size, shape, yield, and resistance against climate change and disease in a plant or animal. (World Health Organization, 2015) Genetic modification has been around since the beginning of time, but it occurred naturally. Plants and animals both over millions of years have naturally modified themselves by Charles…