Urban agriculture

The Suffering Hero In Alan Paton’s historical fiction novel Cry the Beloved Country, he describes two men who are brought together by their similar journeys. It takes place in South Africa before Apartheid; a policy system which discriminated against non white South Africans in the late 1900s. The novel begins with a man named Steven Kumalo who travels to Johannesburg after he receives a letter from a priest who informed him that Kumalo’s sister is “sick” and desperately needs his help. Along…

Bread was the main source of nutrition in the middle ages, the baker had to take orders specific to the person in order for everybody to survive. In a feudal system where some are of higher class than others, there were different kinds of bread the bakers made to fulfil the needs of the customer. The wealthier families had better bread while families that did not have money flowing out of their pockets had their bread made with cheaper grains to save money. Different kinds of grains were more…

My Opinion: • Road salt may be an effective way to melt ice on roads, but it comes with many drawbacks, that can especially harm the environment, and even damage infrastructure. Argument #1: Salt contaminates many bodies of water, which affects aquatic animals in a negative way. • Salt in ponds and lakes prevents aquatic plants and animals from getting their nutrients. • High concentrations of salt in freshwater has harmful effects on the growth, reproduction, and survival of invertebrates,…

Climate changing is affecting the way 5.2 million American Indians and Alaska Natives are living, 1.1 million of them on reservations or native lands. As these indigenous people are already profoundly poor, the fluctuations climate change brings, hits them even harder. Food and drink which are simple for us to get, is not for them. Food like salmon, shellfish, marine mammals, and the conventional crops are becoming more difficult to produce or find, which hurts these people economically,…

The river simulation was a helpful activity to get introduced to civics. The simulation gave one the knowledge of how the government and people worked together. The simulation of having a drought was a creative topic to work with because there are draughts in modern time. The simulation showed different ideas and perspectives that one may have to solve the problem. The simulation connects with civics because there are many problems and situations that need to be solved in modern time like…

Contemporary Issues in Agriculture Dr. Temple Grandin is one of the most accomplished and well-known adults with autism in the world and she has played a large part in improving the animal agriculture industry. She is an American professor of animal science at Colorado State University, world renowned autism spokesperson and consultant to the livestock industry on animal behavior (Hauser, 2010). She has influenced the lives of many people and has made many accomplishments that have influenced…

When we walked in to the union there are different varieties of smells all around me. People are sitting down talking and eating you also see lines to the left and right. When I took look over at the empty space where Chick Fil A was I see KoFusion. At that point I want to just take off running to KoFusion like I was a little kid at Disney world. As Soon I walked up to the restaurant there was a long line, that happy feeling that I had went away fast very fast. Five minute passed now it my turn…

RITTMAN — Cubes of meat, like pork, pierced on a skewer are sold in grocery stores under the label city chicken. If some Rittman residents get their way, the term will take on a whole new meaning. Residents Ted Balog and Kelly Collins, during the April 11 meeting, approached council members asking them to consider changing zoning laws to accommodate raising chickens for eggs in coops in residential areas. Balog would like to see an ordinance similar to the one in Medina, which allows chickens in…

Trichinellosis is a parasitic disease caused by Trichinella spp., a species of intestinal nematodes that reside as encysted larvae in muscle tissue and are released upon human digestion of infected raw or undercooked meat (Gottstein and others 2009). Domestic pigs are the primary source of infection for this pathogen making uncooked pork products, such as raw-fermented sausages, at risk for containing Trichinella spp. (Gottstein and others 2009). The symptoms of this disease include: facial…

Genetic engineering refers to the artificial modification of the genetic code of a living organism. Genetic engineering changes the fundamental physical nature of the organism, sometimes in ways that would never occur in nature. Genes from one organism are inserted in another organism, most often across natural species boundaries. Some of the effects become known, but most do not. The effects of genetic engineering which we know are ususally short-term, specific and physical. The effects we do…