1) Intensive farming practices include growing high-yield crops‚ using fertilisers and pesticides and keeping animals indoors. Food production is increased but there are unwelcome side effects. 2) Prevents energy being transferred from the crop to consumers. Reduces biodiversity. May poison helpful organisms. 3) Chemical insecticides (which kill insect pests). Herbicides which kill plants or weeds. 4) Ground water contamination: Chemicals can reach underground aquifers if there is persistent
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Hawthorne October 20‚ 2012 Core 1 Reflective Paper #2 “I don’t know when they first had feeds. Like maybe‚ fifty or a hundred years ago. Before that‚ they had to use their hands and their eyes. Computers were all outside the body. They carried them around outside of them‚ in their hands‚ like if you carried your lungs in a briefcase and opened it to breathe” (47). Its crazy to think that to the characters in Feed think our life is so complex‚ when really we have more technology than we need. People
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One of the key ideas in MT Anderson’s “Feed” is the idea of a futuristic dystopian‚ or oppressive/negative society‚ which holds many parallels with our own. He uses the destruction of nature and social values‚ such as family and religion‚ which we as a society hold so dear‚ as well as the destruction caused by the vast implementation of technology‚ and its consequences in the text‚ to create an ominous warning for our own society. In the novel “Feed”‚ much of earth’s natural environment has
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Scientific farming vs organic farming - Document Transcript 1. Scientific Farming Vs Organic Farming Class: 2A Group 3 Group leader: Wong Kin Kon‚ Tony (40) Group member: Chow Cheuk Yin‚ Tommy (8) Fung Sheung Chi‚ Simon (10) Hui Ying Kit‚ Steven (12) Man Wing Ho‚ Victor (21) 2. Content Introduction P.1 Scientific Farming P.2 Organic Farming P.2 Advantages and Disadvantages of - Scientific farming method P.3 - Organic farming method P.4 Comparison between organic farming and scientific farming P.5
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educational text‚ Jenny Ridgwell states‚ “Many supermarkets stock a range of ‘organic’ foods; these are normally more expensive than other foods‚ since it is more difficult to match the volume of perfect fruits and vegetables that are produced by intensive farming. Organic foods are grown using traditional methods of faming without artificial fertilisers‚ pesticides or intensive growing systems. People who eat organic food believe that it tastes better and that it is better for the environment.”
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Vertical Farming Vertical Farming is a modern way of farming‚ is a concept that argues that it is economically and environmentally viable to cultivate plant or animal life within skyscrapers‚ or on vertically inclined surfaces. Land and population: It is estimated that by the year 2050‚ close to 80% of the world’s population will live in urban areas and the total population of the world will increase by 3 billion people. A very large amount of land may be required depending on the change in yield
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Aileen Beltran Professor Storie English 101 23 July 2014 Better Ways to Farm for a Better World Fig. 1. This illustration suggests how the future of agriculture can look in a few years (Postolach). Feed a growing world or destroy our planet; which one would you choose? Our population is beginning to grow while our natural resources are starting to become limited for our use. We are wasting water without thinking about how we will get water when it’s completely
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North Island College | Fish Farming | Benefits and Costs | Hailey Devitt 3/28/2011 | English 160 Module # 4 & 5 Assignment # 5 Formal Report North Island College Section: Distance Submitted To Derek Hanebury March 28‚ 2011 Submitted by: Ms. H. Devitt Table of contents Executive Summary…………………………………………………………………………………………….Page 1 Introduction & Background……………………………………………………………………………………Page 2 Major Issues…………………………………………………………………………………………………………
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know in seconds. Nevertheless‚ if we leave aside the contribution of technology to the compilation of facts‚ we can realize that not because we are able to have a quick access to information it means that we understand or learn something. My goal in this paper is to discuss the influence and effects of technology in education by expressing my opinion and my analysis of Anderson‚ M.T. Feed. Somerville‚ Massachusetts: Candlewick Press‚ 2012. Print. Firstly‚ from my point of view M. T. Anderson tries
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happened half a century a go‚ now it ’s time for another revolution if we want to continue feeding the world population. Is this too extreme of an opinion? No‚ not in the slightest. Today we are faced with the same problem of an exploding human population while the rate o food production is going down. Large scale monoculture farming worked for us back then‚ but the effects it had on our world such as soil compaction and water pollution make it an irresponsible and outlandish idea to use in the modern
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