Essays on Manure

Hi Lora, a sustainable society utilizes its assets to cater for current requirements while maintaining adequate resources for the future generations. The community involves its entire people in long-term and integrated planning to safeguard the environment, meet social requirements, and expand financial opportunities. The cradle-to-cradle business structure is an example of a sustainability model that considers the ecology, surrounding, and equity since the manure is friendly to the ecology, the environment, and provides generous returns to the owners. The cattle graze on available land to cut costs while they fertilize the land with manure to enhance the appearance of ...

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Until recently, genetic foods have become popular for their ability to address many production and quality issues faced by natural/organic farming methods. Genetically modified crops are those whose genetic makeup has been improved to enhance the level of nutrients, resistance to diseases, increase yields, adaptability to climatic factors, and reduce the time of production (Ronald & Adamchak, 2008). It is different from the conventional breeding because genetic modification allows introduction of genes from any organism (animal and plants) in altering crops whereas breeding allows transfer of genes across related species only. On the other hand, organic farming is a natural ...

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Part 1 Various plants have unique adaptations that help them in surviving in their environments and carrying out various biological activities such as flowering and reproduction. These modifications are either present on the leaves, stems and roots. An example of a plant with such a modification is the potato plant. The potato plant, has an underground stem (stem-tuber) which is a swollen part of the stem that is used to store food, mainly starch, for the purposes of reproduction when the stem is detached or removed from the rest of the plant (Lakhotia et al., 2014). While this is ...

This article entitled Urban Pollution- Many Long Years Ago is an intriguing reminder of humanities ongoing struggle with the pollution of their major cities. This article shows how humanities necessity to colonize and industrialize a particularly profitable location inevitably leads to contamination of this area. This article analyzes some of America's largest cities Boston, Chicago, Columbus, Detroit, Milwaukee, and New York. It shows society's progression from the excessive use of the horse as a means of personal and commercial transportation; to the utilization of the automobile for these same purposes, and more, from 1850 to 1920's. This article identifies ...

The article is about comparing the pollution caused by cars in the 1970’s to the pollution that existed in the United States prior to the automobile. The focus of the article is the pollution caused by the waste of horses. Horses were the cause of a number of pollution related issues in the past. The gases that they released along with the fecal matter they left behind not only resulted in foul odors, but were harmful to the environment and people’s health. There was also the issue of noise, which subsequently increased to horrifying levels in cities ...

The eco-festival 2016 held at Kingsborough Community College on May 12 was one of my best experiences in college. In attending the festival, I was able to gain deeper insight on eco-justice and all the activities that pertain to the impact of animal agriculture on the planet and our health. This essay is a reaction paper on one of the events during the festival that I attended which focused on the impact of animal agriculture on health. The event which was held at MAC Lighthouse was moderated by experts and scholars from the college who focused on how animal ...

A Fossil fuel power station is a plant location where fossil fuels are burned producing electricity. Such fossil fuels include petroleum, natural gas, and coal. There are power plants which are designed for continuous operations for large scale purposes called central station fossil fuel power plants. Fossil fuel plants in many countries are used in the provision of electricity. They have machines for conversion of heat energy from combustion of fossil fuels into mechanical energy that operates an electrical generator producing electric currents (Camus et al. 154). The Samso Island is planning to exhaust the application of fossil fuels ...

Agriculture is the art and science of cultivating the soil, growing crops and raising livestock (National Geographic Society). It is one of the earliest occupations known to man and is till today, the most common occupation throughout the world. The importance of agriculture led early man to form permanent settlements and he was able to thus provide surplus food and livestock which soon became a prime mode of trade and transaction. The field of agriculture is a very vast one. It caters to food requirements of the entire world population. Innovative technology and development in the field of biotechnology ...

Global warming is the rise in average global temperatures. The rise in global temperatures is occasioned by the emission of greenhouses gases such as carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, methane, and nitrogen oxides. The gases are released from industrial process that combust fossil fuels such as diesel, coal, and petrol. Such processes include generation of electrical energy in thermal power stations, burning of coal in industrial boilers, and combustion of fossil fuels in internal combustion engines. When these greenhouse gases are emitted, they rise to upper levels of the atmosphere and form a layer that blankets the earth. This layer ...

Meat pie is a dish made from meat and other savory ingredients including cooked potatoes, carrots, vegetables, and cereals. The dish combines animal and plant products. Therefore, it can have a huge impact on the environment. This impact extends throughout all steps of the dish’s lifecycle, from farming, transportation and processing to cooking and waste disposal. Cattle rearing for the production of beef affects the environment in various ways. A lot of water is required for drinking and cleaning of cattle sheds. Besides, the land is cultivated to grow cattle feeds and the food crops that are used ...

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H2S or hydrogen sulfide is a gas that naturally occurs in hot springs, crude petroleum, and even natural gas. Hydrogen sulfide is also known as sewer gas, swamp gas, manure gas, or stink damp. This gas is usually produced by the breakdown of organic materials commonly found in wastes of human and animals by bacteria. Some of the activities that commonly result to the production of hydrogen sulfide gas include treatment of wastewater, drilling and even refining of petroleum or natural gas, and kraft paper mills (Occupational Safety and Health Administration). Aside from being a gas in form, hydrogen ...

Water pollution is a growing crisis in the world that affects everybody. All beings on the planet rely on water for their very survival. To be specific every being depends on water. Unfortunately, many sources of water have been affected by human activities and soil pollution from a wide variety of sources. Water pollution cause many problems to the health of the planet and its inhabitants. It has been estimated that over 40% of the rivers, lakes and streams in the United States are too polluted to swim in or fish in. When water pollution spreads, it can cause serious consequences.

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Life Cycle assessment (LCA) can be described as one of the most vital and essential methods of analyzing and assessing the general environmental effects and impacts of merchandise, services, produce, products, good or processes. It is actually in other words referred to as Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) and it really evaluates and reviews the environmental effects of a product from the time of production, process or procedure from plan and design to the time of disposal. In addition, LCA reviews the whole life cycle of a product or process and it involves the collection and assemblage of data, the evaluation and ...