ASIA RE-DISCOVERS ORGANIC AGRICULTURE FOR POVERTY ALLEVIATION Angelina M. Briones‚ PhD. MASIPAG (Farmer-Scientist Partnership for Development)‚ masipag@mozcom.com Asian culture in the past evolved farming in harmony with nature. Mystical traditions manifested people’s respect for nature; there was culture in agriculture. All these became practically extinct over vast lands put under modern farming for the last 50 years. But organic farming‚ as we know today‚ has built upon that age-old
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Organic VS. Non-organic Food‚ Good or Bad? Unfortunately‚ most organic food is disappearing‚ because people are not taking the time to buy it. People are buying non-organic because the food is cheaper‚ easier to find‚ and full of nutrition. But why is organic food disappearing when it has more nutrition‚ better tasting‚ and ecosystem diversity. What are people really doing? People now at days choose to buy non-organic food because it’s cheaper‚ easier to find‚ and full of nutrition. When coming
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How much would you pay for an organic--being maintained with extra care‚ and containing very little traces of pesticides-- food source that may not have more nutritional values‚ rather than conventional food? Some experts have found that the difference regarding the nutritional values in organic and conventional food is slim to none. This gives no way for the vast differences in prices for both categories. Organic foods are not worthwhile because of the unknown truancy of the product‚ as well as
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There have been many improvements in the farming industry. Indoor farming‚ like greenhouses have come along way in the past century. The constant need for food combined with the lack of sufficient land to grow food has increased the need for scientists to come up with modern advances in the farming business. With the growing need for land and the growing population scientists have come up with the idea of vertical farming. The idea of vertical farming is continually growing. According to Wikipedia
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Name: Abdullah Alghamdi Instructor Course code Date Factory Chicken Farming Factory Chicken Farming is the practice of raising chicken in a confinement at high stocking density. A farm operates as the factory. The main product of this industry is eggs and chicken meat for human consumption. Confinement at this high stocking density is one of the emerging practices aimed at producing the highest output at the lowest cost by relying on scale economics‚ modern machinery‚ biotechnology and global
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Factory Farming: Cruel or Not? Have you ever thought about where your food‚ mainly meat‚ milk‚ and eggs in this particular case‚ comes from? To keep up with the abundant demand for food in today’s world people are always looking for ways to better supply that demand. Factory farming is a farm where animals are raised on a large scale using intensive methods and modern equipment. This method is cruel to animals for many reasons‚ such as very small living space‚ poor diet‚ numerous forms of abuse
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Moon Baby Amy Zhao Critical Thinking: Farming for the Future The United States government should subsidize the feed of animals on Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs)‚ because this method of producing food is efficient‚ cost-effective‚ and in terms of economics‚ is favorable overall compared to the traditional idea of a farm. A modern practice implemented since the 1940’s‚ factory farming has revolutionized the meat industry‚ producing mass amounts of cheap meat with less land space
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In past decades when someone said‚ “you are what you eat” a person was able to respond quite easily. Unfortunately in recent years it has become harder and harder to answer truthfully due to the growth of the factory farming industry. The average american is completely oblivious to what exactly the meat and animal products they consume contains. In 2012‚ the average American consumed 71.2 pounds of red meat and 54.1 pounds of poultry ‚ according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). (Wall
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Through the many packaged and wrapped meats‚ people go through everyday‚ there was bloodshed in an immoral manner. Business and industries have done a good job of keeping such methods in the shadows. It couldn’t be more clear to me that factory farming not only paves the way for animals abuse‚ environmental pollution‚ and low quality food‚ yet can even be harmful to the consumers themselves‚ and for
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Eng 102 Ms. Williams March 1st‚ 2012 Essay # 2 Intense Farming In our world today we no longer are able to farm clean natural products for others to consume. A factory farm is where animals are bred and fattened using modern industrial methods. This method allows more farming jobs to stay in the US. If we had to do it the way a farm has been run in the past‚ farmers wouldn’t be able to compete with prices of food from China because their labor costs are much lower. According to The Scientific
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