Case Study Monsanto Roundup Ready Soybean Introduction – A Brief History of Monsanto Monsanto was created in 1901. The company focused primarily on basic industrial chemicals and during the 1940’s became the leading manufacturers of synthetic fibers and plastics. They continued to be one of the US top ten chemical companies. Following the Second World War‚ Monsanto championed the use of chemical herbicides in agriculture and created such agrochemical products as DDT‚ Lasso and Agent Orange
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South and Southeast Asia‚ and are likely to have been first domesticated in Papua New Guinea.[2][3] They are grown in at least 107 countries‚[4]primarily for their fruit‚ and to a lesser extent to make fiber‚ banana wine and as ornamental plants. In 2013 bananas were fourth among the main world food crops (after rice‚ wheat‚ andmaize) in financial value.[5] Worldwide‚ there is no sharp distinction between "bananas" and "plantains". Especially in the Americas and Europe‚ "banana" usually refers to soft
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Biodiversity: Deforestation Deforestation is a threat to biodiversity because deforestation increases the chances of animal/plant extinction. In the Amazon‚ around 17% of the forest has been lost in the last 50 years. Causes of Deforestation Deforestation is the permanent destruction of forest in order to make the land available for other uses such as… For fuel Space for housing and urbanization To create commercial items such as paper‚ furniture‚ and homes To create rare and highly priced
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Once we run out of food and oxygen that we get from plant‚crops and livestock that we depend on‚ humans will slowly starve to death or once all plants and flowers begin to die rapidly we will run out of natural oxygen to breathe from. We can’t replace this with artificial food or oxygen‚ in fact we won’t have enough
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most plants are five feet (about 1.5 meters) or less. Amaranth plants have broad leaves and a flower head‚ with tiny seeds galore. The leaves come in many colors‚ including white‚ green‚ orange‚ pink‚ and red. Amaranth grain has high fiber‚ calcium‚ and iron content. It has a relatively high concentration of other vitamins as well‚ including magnesium‚ phosphorus‚ copper‚ and manganese‚ and a nearly complete set of amino acids‚ which you won’t find in many other grains. The leaves of
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people miss out on the benefits other foods can offer; particularly‚ fruits and vegetables‚ which offer a variety of benefits‚ including the following: lots of vitamins and minerals; may reduce the chance of being diagnosed with many diseases; and fiber-rich produce that help with digestion; that is to say‚ all essential to a healthy
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The zeroAength springgravity meter By LUCIEN LaCOSTE Austin‚ Texas took my only formal geophysics coursein 1932at the University of Texas. Arnold Romberg was the teacher. Early in the course‚he explained the .theory of the horizontal pendulum and showed that theoretically it has an infinite period when its axis of rotation is vertical. It behaves like a sphere on a perfectly horizontal table - i.e.‚ the sphere stays wherever it is put. Romberg also told us that no verticalseismographhad ever
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recreationally by ancient cultures‚ it was known more for its medicinal purposes. In 1545 the Spanish brought marijuana to the New World. In 1611 the English introduced marijuana in Jamestown‚ where it soon became a major cash crop alongside tobacco and was grown as a source of fiber. It was in the 1860’s that marijuana started to become regulated and restricted. Today there are 17 states in the U.S and Washington D.C‚ home to a number of our Country’s political leaders; that allow the use and sale of
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this research is determine whether Musa Sapientum (banana) leaves can be another source of fiber for paper making by producing quality handmade paper out of Musa sapientum (banana) leaves. The banana leaves were gathered cut into small pieces and soaked in a basin full of water overnight. It underwent boiling in water‚ then in NaOH solution‚ and then lastly in soda ash solution to separate the cellulose fibers from the lignin and other extraneous components. The leaves were rinsed thoroughly and strained
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invention of steam powered and coal engines‚ helped build the factory economy. Factories made it more efficient to produce goods in large quantities. In the south the cotton reaper invented by Cyrus McCormick ‚made it easier to pick out the cotton fibers from the seeds.
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