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Morgan Applegarth First Year Seminar Shelley Molland December 4, 2015 Rough Draft Controversial issues across the United States don’t stop at civil rights and liberties, instead they work their way up to the white house step by step. While the rest of the nation is watching Congress stress over the issues of same sex marriage and abortion laws, a smaller population of the country is simply fighting for the truth behind their nutrition. Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO’s) have been a

Genetically Engineered. “It is estimated that 60-70% of the crops that are on grocery store shelves are GMO crops. Which that being said, corn and soy beans make up the largest majority of the GMO crops in stores”(Dahl1). Mrs Dupont’s article, GMO corn, soybeans dominate the US Market, says that 60-70 percent of processed foods are genetically altered.(Dupont1). Which is a staggeringly low number of people being aware of what is on the store shelves that they shop at. If most people are not aware that that

Microeconomics H.W. Assignment World Food Crisis Professor: Student: 2011 Food is the foundation of human live and people cannot survive without it. Food security is a vital issue facing the governments around the world. However, food shortage is becoming increasingly severe in this day and age. There are several reasons which led to the universal food shortage and they are interconnected to each other. Increasing world population, extreme

HM like Cd appears to be a known and one of the main targets to cytoskeleton microtubule (MT).Cd at the concentrations of 85μM 170μM distort the structure and functioning of the MT cytoskeleton in the root cells of soybean plants (Gzyl et al., 2015).The root growth in soybean was thus diminished accompanied by a reduction in mitotic activity and disturbed MT arrays structure which also includes randomization in the arrangement of the cortical MT, distorted mitotic arrays and completed depolymerisation

humans. An inserted gene could cause a plant to produce higher levels of phytate decreasing the mineral nutritional value of the plant (GEO-PIE).” (Discovery Eye) “Another example comes from a study showing that a strain of genetically modified soybean produced lower levels of phytoestrogen compounds, believed to protect against heart disease

According to the regulations established by the FDA in 1992, “Under this policy, foods, such as fruits, vegetables, grains, and their byproducts, derived from plant varieties developed by the new methods of genetic modification are regulated within the existing framework of the act” (FDA). In other words, instead of creating new regulations that are specific to these completely unique food products, they are put within the umbrella of other “natural” products. As time passes it appears to be harder

poisoning the water supply, and there’s no telling what the pesticides are doing to your body. For example, Monsanto, a company known for sustainable agriculture, created a new type of soybeans which have been genetically modified to not be affected by their herbicide product “Roundup”. A farmer will then grow the soybeans which will only require one application of the weed-killer instead of multiple applications, which will in turn reduce the production cost and limit the dangers of agricultural waste

also found a means by which to re-engineer them to be more accurate at the University of Zurich. The new study focuses on a protein that serves as either an enzyme or a catalyst that was first sequestered in bacteria. It has since been added to soybeans and corn during the 1990s. The new study takes that research to the next level, as

Harvey Firestone to conduct lab experiments to transform agricultural products into materials that can be productively used in the auto industry. He renovated former rice fields into fields for iceberg lettuce and grew 365 varieties of soybean—technically, a soybean variety for everyday of the year! He tested the crops’ properties in hopes that rubber can be extracted from them. Henry Ford truly turned the desperate neighborhood into a flourishing town. The city of Ways Station was later renamed to

A genetically modified plant has lower nutritional quality than its counterpart because the nutrients are indigestible to humans. One example comes from a study showing that a genetically modified soybean contained lower levels of phytoestrogen than normal soybeans. Phytoestrogen is an important substance that is in legumes that protects against heart disease and cancer. Most plants produce substances that are toxic to humans but almost all of the plants that humans consume don’t