More than fifty countries all over the world are outraged over the multi-billion dollar biotechnology company Monsanto‚ and their attempt to control the world food supplies. It has been proven in various cases that their products could cause deadly defects‚ disorders‚ and are constantly harming the environment. They are eliminating small organic farm owners by accusing them of “stealing” their products and driving them out of business. On top of that‚ they are robbing the consumer’s right by refusing
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How would you feel if I told you that the food you’re eating was made in a science lab? Genetically modified organisms‚ or GMOs‚ are the outcome of a laboratory process where genes from the DNA of one species are extracted and artificially manipulated into the genes of an uncorrelated plant or animal. Crops are often genetically modified to be resistant to pesticides so farmers would be able to spray them without harming the crop itself. However‚ there are many consequences regarding consumers’
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Chlorella pyrenoidosa is a widely available microalga with several commercial applications for food and nutritional purposes. It has also revealed great potential as future industrial bioenergy producer due to its robustness‚ high growth rate‚ and high carbohydrate and lipid contents‚ and can be cultured under autotrophic‚ heterotrophic and mixotrophic conditions. However‚ in presence of organic carbon sources‚ it produces higher biomass with better carbohydrate contents than its autotrophic
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Farming is rough in the Democratic Republic of Congo but there are some strategies that lighten the weight of the ecological problem. The idea of promoting local agricultural co-ops can assist in spreading of knowledge or methods of preserving soil‚ supplying food to families or for trade‚ and reducing the need for deforestation to name a few. By spreading information new methods of keeping the soil rich in nutrients are bound to pop up. Passage B states‚" Learning methods that will preserve and
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As discussed in the article “GMOs Under Scrutiny” by Rachel Ehrenberg‚ there are numerous controversial methods being used in today’s world‚ one of them being growing genetically modified crops. Originating in the 1990s‚ GMOs came into practice for many different purposes and they have had several different effects. The whole idea of genetically modifying crops was to‚ one‚ make growing crops easier by giving them a built-in pesticide or the ability to stay fresh longer‚ two‚ to make growing certain
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People should know what is in the food they eat today. The package should tell us the things they put in these Genetically Modified Organisms or GMOs for short. They should do this because: we do not know what harmful things are in the foods‚ the side effects it has on other foods too‚ and no real testing has been done to prove these foods are even okay for us to eat. These foods should have labels because we do not know what they contain in them. The company that produces GMOs do not put what
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Biotechnology is a broad section of science that seeks to use biological processes‚ cells‚ their components or organism to give solutions to problems‚ there seems to be hope that‚ these science may seem hold answers to many questions and problems that‚ over time‚ have plagued mankind and confounded scientist. When researching for this discussion paper‚ it was interesting to see the wide range of applications that this technology has been applied to or is being tested for. Most of the articles I
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Introduction Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO)‚ are organisms whose genetic material has been artificially manipulated in a laboratory through the means of Genetic Engineering. It is when a gene from one organism is taken and inserted into another in order to improve and produce a desired trait for that certain organism. Sometimes it is known as "transgenic" for transfer of genes. Mostly‚ GMOs are done with agricultural crops and animals that are consumed for food. Food‚ most needed by humans
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GMO crops face a lot of criticism‚ but the facts are that they are more environmentally friendly than traditional crops‚ they have higher and more stable yields than traditional crops‚ and are safe to consume. Some critics claim that GMO crops are unsafe and offer no significant advantages over traditional ones. This however‚ is not true. GMO crops are as safe as and more effective than traditional crops in every way. GMO crops are identical to traditional crops except‚ the GMOs have had a small
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Key innovation in human evolution is the development of bipedalism and gradual increase in size of brains. The evolution might have occurred due to change in climate and environment which lead to reduction and replacement of trees with grasslands. Due to presence of large numbers of trees‚ it was easier for our ancestors to have quadrupedalism instead of bipedalism‚ so that they can climb on trees and move from one place to another. But with the decrease in number of trees‚ requirement for bipedalism
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