Genetically Modified Organisms are Harmful For the past 25 years the United States has been putting their people in harm’s way. They have been doing this by allowing government agencies to grow and sell genetically modified foods and organisms to the public without informing them of what they’re consuming (2011 responsibletechnology.org). Most people do not know that a large quantity of the foods they are eating are not natural and are actually mutations of real healthy foods that take tons of chemicals
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Imagine unbeatable bacteria and superweeds that pesticides and herbicides can’t even touch. Those are just a few of the horrible effects of genetically modified organisms. Many people think that genetically modified organisms are beneficial and could possibly change the food industry for the better. What these people don’t know is that for every benefit genetically modified organisms have‚ there is a larger downside. I believe that genetically modified organisms should be tested further to see the
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With the rise of many meal replacement drinks‚ there has yet to be any research into their effect on the human gut microbiome. The most extreme version of these replacement drink is a product called Soylent‚ which has all the needed vitamins and calories to be a complete food replacement. Previous studies have shown that a switch in diet can cause changes within the microbiome in as little as a single meal. While the proper nutrients are still present within these drinks‚ there could be unknown effects
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The night of the Open Door event was a campus-wide event‚ but I mostly went to the Frankenstein exhibit and the engineering events. Two different concepts in the Frankenstein exhibit stood out to me. What first stood out to me was the project where Myoglobin which is a protein that is normally found in meat being engineered into an edible plant-based one such as a tomato in the example used in the exhibit. The second concept that stood out to me was growing human skin which is understandable‚ but
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The leader whom I researched is Retired General Colin Powell. He grew up in a tough neighborhood‚ educated in the public school system and went to City College in New York. After completing the schools ROTC’s program and graduating‚ Colin Powell was commissioned as an Army second lieutenant. He held many leadership positions to include National Security Advisor during the Reagan Administration‚ becoming the 12th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff‚ the highest position in the Defense Department
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There are many people all over Africa who go hungry every day. Many people come up with different ways to help them with this problem of hunger; they go on mission trips‚ raise money‚ or creating feeding programs in Africa. While these things do help them a lot it does not seem to ever solve the problem of hunger. One of the best ways to help them‚ and to possibly solve the hunger problem‚ is to help them help themselves. This could be as simple as getting many of the farmers to farm genetically
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A Nebraska cornhusker frets as he surveys his drought-stunted crop. A Nigerian yam farmer digs up shrunken tubers. A Costa Rican coffee baron lays off hundreds of workers because a fungus has spoiled his harvest. A poor Indian cotton farmer discovers his crop infested with insects. Such dilemmas are becoming more and more prevalent in our world plighted with drought‚ climate change‚ and other natural devastations to plants. However‚ the rapid population growth of humans makes overcoming these challenges
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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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