Essays on Pesticide

American Public University

Technological development is expected to provide a more comfortable life for people. However, there is no certain scientific proof that exhibits that technological development could assist us to solve poverty problem or any other social issue based on limited natural resources. The primary expectation is to substitute limited natural resources with capital and solve the satisfaction problem of people. In this paper, I will discuss two main issues with food production: conventional farming and genetically engineered food. Also, I will consider Malthus' law of population to indicate that even technological development cannot create desired conditions for a large world ...

The environment is everything that surrounds us. It involves not only the natural elements that the word “environment” entails but also people and the man-made components of the world. Nor is the environment restricted to the outside, it also involves the indoor sections in which we live and work. The environment, therefore, is much more than simply the ozone layer and the ocean. It is the soil, air, water, lands, animals, houses, restaurants factories and all that they contain. Anyone who uses pesticides indoors or outdoors, in a city or a country, needs to consider the way that pesticide ...

A migrant farmworker or a migratory agricultural worker is a person who moves from his or her permanent place of residence in pursuit of employment in agricultural work. There are also seasonal farmworkers, who are people who seek temporary farm work and unlike migrant farmworkers, they may have other sources of income and do not move from their permanent residence. According to Migrantclinician.org, the US has around 1 and 2.5 million farmworkers and about half million of them are under 18 years. About half of immigrants have the proper authorization to operate in the US. The males comprise of ...

Environmental regulations were something that people of the United States felt that they could live without. In fact, the mere idea of implementing laws that would change the ways humans interact with the environment was outrageous in a time when feeding the people was the most important challenge for society, lands were being cleared for lumber, agriculture, and roadways. It wasn’t that long ago that you could change your automobile’s oil over a storm drain, spray harmful pesticides such as DDT, and build elementary schools above old landfills. Some of the most atrocious, corrupt and damaging practices ...

We see these days restaurants like Chipotle and grocery stores claiming to serve non-genetically modified foods. Are we eating artificial food? Is that good for our bodies? Is that good for the food that is being modified? These questions raise awareness for people who are oblivious of what GMOs are and how they are affecting our daily lives. GMOs may be more common in our diets than we know. GMO stands for Genetically modified organism and is a term that stems from biotechnology. It is the alteration of the genetic code of an organism to either enhance its properties, ...

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The debate over the potential benefits of organic foods and conventional ones has been ongoing for quite a long time. Due to numerous reasons, consumers believe that organic foods are healthier, environmentally friendly as well as possess ethical option and they are not far from the truth. A number of scientific evidence indicate that organic foods are better for nature, involves high animal welfare, natural and great tasting foods aspects as well as safer and healthier option than non-organic ones. Studies reveal various reasons why consumers choose organics and interestingly most consumers who go for organics do so because ...

Food and Agriculture

The use of modern technology in food production in the United States has led to mechanization and the production of agrochemicals that kill weeds and pests and act as crop fertilizers. This has resulted in farms shifting to monoculture as a preferred method of crop production. This method involves the use of large tracts of land to produce the same species of crops every year. Modern Biotechnology has also enabled the creation of Genetically Modified Organism that are crops whose genetic structure have been artificially modified to give them some desired characteristics. The use of monoculture as a method ...

Environmental laws and regulations are framed to protect the air, land and water environment as well as human health from adverse impacts of industrial or commercial activities. All capital ventures are aimed towards increased production and associated profits, while the surrounding environment is taken for granted. Results of such environmental devaluations are great disasters that lead to severe capital and human loss. Four different disasters that resulted from violation of major environmental laws or led to the development of new regulations are discussed below in detail.

Love Canal

Hooker Chemical Company acquired an aborted canal project area near Niagara Falls called ...

China has always been one of the biggest countries by population in the world. Even though the growth of its inhabitants has been decreasing in the last decades, there is still a huge challenge facing people. Despite the fact that over the past 40 years production has increased dramatically, it is still not enough. There is a social stagnation in this regard, which is becoming increasingly urgent. There is also a problem considering medical treatment. Despite the huge advances in modern medicine, making and producing drugs is so expensive that some parts of the population rely on traditional pre-scientific ...

The Nature of things programmed to be Fat is a movie that discusses the aspect of chemicals that cause obesity. Professor Legler is a scientist whose unexpected findings made him continue the research work with a Scot doctor on the reasons why she was not losing weight. The Scot doctor had discovered that her condition was caused by some chemicals. She had suggested several chemicals that caused her not to reduce weight. The chemicals she suggested causing obesity are called Obesogens. Obesogens are endocrine-disrupting substances such as tribuline, nicotine, pesticide DDT(dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane), BPA(Bisphenol A), polychlorinated biphenyls and dioxins ...

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This research established in the article sought to explain the issue of marriage regarding Chinese rural young women and to give the grounds if the issue served as a risk or protective factor for their suicide. The analysis included a brief summary of the main ideas of the article, the purpose of the research, key findings and consequences of the results. Moreover, the major theoretical perspective to clarify the findings was based on Emile Durkheim’s social integration theory of suicide which highlights sources of people’s social support. The observations allowed ...