order to survive and maintain a healthy lifestyle, everyone needs Food. How much do we actually know about the food we buy and serve to our families on a daily basis? There has been little awareness and understanding of food in America until the film Food Inc., which helps show us how our food is produced, packaged and sold in our native stores. Our nation’s food supply is being controlled by a few amounts of corporations that often put their income ahead of customer health. It’s time that the truth is heard about what we are putting into our bodies, and what is being hidden from us by the food industry.…
In my grocery store observation I chose to examine Food Lion, located 11712 Jefferson Avenue, Newport News, VA and Farm Fresh, located at 11712 Jefferson Avenue, Newport News, VA. In my analysis of both stores I observed them on the same day with in the same hour. In this audit I will compare and contrast and give my personal recommendation to which store deserves your business.…
The inventor of the diesel engine, Rudolf Diesel, also designed his engines to run on seed and vegetable oils, such as hemp. Henry Ford believed that there is enough alcohol to drive the machinery used to cultivate the fields of vegetables…
Rough endoplasmic reticulum hold ribosomes which produce protein. Just like pig pens hold pigs which produce protein.…
A diesel engine drives a generator/alternator which in turn drives electric traction motors that turn the wheels.…
To me, Everett Family Farms and Love Apple Farm are distinctly different. Everett is bigger and feels more "commercialized" while Love Apple is small but lovely. If I'm to compare these two to the farms we know, I'd say Everett is similar to CASFS but Love Apple is more like Chadwick garden. Everett is an organic farm. In Everett Family Farms, there were many crops we are familiar with, such as garlics, onions and strawberries. On the pricing board of the farm stand, it also shows that the farms have carrots, spinach, lettuce, kale, and chard. They also raise chickens in the farm and sell eggs, which I believe are pasture-raised. The farm manager, Emily, showed us around the beautiful farm to have a good at the cherry blossom intercropping,…
The cattle industry exists in an ever growing dynamic contemporary world. Each year there are new technologies and possibilities. There are various opportunities in the upcoming years for cattlemen including niche markets, improved genetic data tracking and reproduction techniques, innovative communication, and global exports. As a young cattle-woman, I am confident my generation will make a lasting impact on the cattle industry, and I plan to be a part of that movement.…
How does a hog farm that has a high risk of either dying or even getting diseases sound? Well in my mind I think it is wrong to do to an animal. I have a little bit of understanding when it comes to this kind of stuff. There are ways to where you can slaughter an animal but to practically abuse it is the wrong way to take it.…
Peter Singer’s “Down on the Factory Farm” and E.B. White’s “Death of a Pig” illustrate practices of raising animals for human consumption. The care and environment provided for the animals by both White and the factory farmer’s that Singer discusses can be labelled as ‘animal husbandry’. White and the factory farm worker’s animal husbandry methods can be deemed as ethical, or unethical. Bernard E. Rollin defines good animal husbandry as “keeping the animals under conditions to which their natures [are] biologically adapted, and augmenting these natural abilities by providing additional food, protection, care, or shelter” (6). Through this definition of ethics and the criteria established by the “Principles” found in James P. Sterba’s “Reconciling Anthropocentric and Nonanthropocentric…
This weekend is going to be the harvest fair in the gym at Great Salt Bay school from 10-2:00. Their will be a haunted house, games, and goodies so come join in on the fun!…
1837- John Deere invents the first steel plow in his shop located in grand detour, IL. This let the pioneer farmers cut cleaner and faster furrows through the Midwest’s sticky prairie soils.…
Swisher Mower currently offers three types of lawn mowers; Ride King, Trail-Mower T-44 and Push Mower. They are also in the process of developing a new product, Trim-Max, an all-in-one trimmer, edger, and mower. Swisher Mower products are known for their high quality, simple design and easy maintenance maintenance. They last, on average, 25 years before having to be replaced. Also current mowers’ parts are interchangeable with the parts of older models.…
The first thing that you may notice is the extra tall tires. The backs are fifty inches tall. Normally the tractors only have forty-six inch tall tires. And the fronts are thirty-eight inches tall opposed to the thirty four inch tires on others. Having these larger tires makes the tractor able to go faster. This will also set the tractor up higher and make it easier to see in your wagon if in the grain cart. Also make it less likely to knock down tall crops when spraying your fields. The only real disadvantage to these tires is that you will have one more step that you will have to climb to get into the cab. This is not a problem for me but my grandfather is not a fan of it. That is why he only drives it then you don’t have to climb in and out of it very much. He is a very smart man.…
Diesel engines and unleaded fuel engines better known as gasoline engines are actually very similar. They are both internal combustion engines which is to convert the chemical energy in fuel into mechanical energy. This mechanical energy moves pistons up and down inside cylinders. The pistons are connected to a crankshaft, and the up-and-down motion of the pistons, known as linear motion, creates a force to the flywheel the from the flywheel to the transmission.…
Later, with the progress of society, people’s ideological consciousness will improve, and also the requirement of some mechanical equipment can rise. Thus, small diesel crusher industry is moving towards the field of high level, which has made an important contribution to our country’s economic development and the world technology innovation. According to its own production experience and the demand of the market, Daswell continue to conduct product innovation, and with the new production process and product performance, Daswell…