...Monsanto is an agricultural biotech corporate giant that genetically modifies animals and crop seeds. On their website, they come across a deeply committed humanitarian organization that provides an ecologically sustainable answer to global hunger and malnutrition. The sad reality is that Monsanto is a wolf in sheep's clothing, and perhaps one of the most unethical corporate giants in the world today. In this essay, I will argue that Monsanto is on a power trip, and that they have a hidden agenda that has nothing to do with compassion, ecology or human hunger, and everything to do with greed. In the following paragraphs, I will provide a brief history of Monsanto. Then I will examine some of the promises made in their marketing propaganda, and provide evidence that these promises are little more than blatant lies.Monsanto is an agricultural biotech corporate giant that genetically modifies animals and crop seeds. On their website, they come across a deeply committed humanitarian organization that provides an ecologically sustainable answer to global hunger and malnutrition. The sad reality is that Monsanto is a wolf in sheep's clothing, and perhaps one of the most unethical corporate giants in the world today. In this essay, I will argue that Monsanto is on a power trip, and that they have a hidden agenda that has nothing to do with compassion, ecology or human hunger, and everything to do with greed. In the following paragraphs, I will provide a brief history of Monsanto. Then...
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...the root cause of these global issues is the relationship between poverty and the lack of education. The big question is whether increased education will reduce poverty or, is a lack of education a result of poverty? Increased education can lead to the reduction of poverty by providing people with learning skills to get a job and provide a source of income. Education has the most crucial role in eliminating poverty as with education there are many more opportunities. For the eradication of poverty, primary education is essential because with the increase in education, people will not lack cognitive skills- being able to progress better. (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, 2001; Brown, J., Pollitt, E. Malnutrition, 1996). A counter argument is that poverty is the main contributor towards that lack of education. Education differs on levels of income which results in families in developing countries not having access to education because it is not affordable. The lack of health care can raise the number of absents of a student causing them to miss the necessary lessons to pass. Also, students require an adequate meal before and during...
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...termed the Columbian Exchange or the Great Exchange, devised by historian Alfred Crosby, of the University of Texas. Many new and different goods were exchanged between parts of the Earth and transformed Europe and American ways of life. Everyone today knows that Florida is famous for our oranges, and as a matter of fact it is our official state fruit and is a major part of Florida’s economy. However, did you know that before Columbus and the Columbian Exchange, oranges did not exist in the Americas? The orange plant is believed to be native to Asia. I believe that It’s Important to understand the Columbian Exchange, because understanding the Columbian Exchange helps us understand the forces that shape the world , as we know it today. This essay will specifically focus on the impact the Columbian Exchange had on Europe in regards to newly introduced plants. New plants impacted Europe in a very positive way by increasing Europe’s population tremendously and also creating economic stimulation which make this country a very powerful country. Newly introduced plants also had some negative impacts, not on Europe but on slaves. New plants associated with the Columbian Exchange had a huge impact on the population of Europe. The Old World received bountiful amounts of new plants that were discovered in the New World. Plants like potato, tomato, maize (corn), cassava and many more, created a surplus of food for Europe. Before the Columbian Exchange, carbohydrate based plants was...
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...currently takes frusemide to treat the oedema and swelling. His Advanced congestive cardiac failure leads to decreased mobility, hypertension and he currently takes metaprolol to treat angina and hypertension. Furthermore, Ferdinand’s lifestyle has been disrupted by his ill health, as he no longer does his own shopping and is bought unhealthy food by his friend Will. This change will undoubtedly lead to malnutrition which will worsen his leg ulcer, as healing is decreased which continues to jeopardise his ADL’s as his mobility will be inhibited. He is supplemented Slow K1 and a multivitamin to prevent and treat malnutrition. On a social level, Ferdinand has many aspects in his life which make it difficult to interact in society. He is a widower still suffering grief from his losses and therefore does not wish to remarry; he is of a different culture with language barriers; he is retired so does not socialize at work; he is under financial strain so cannot afford to go out and socialize and his ill health causes pain which makes mobility and ADL’s difficult. Therefore this essay will outline Ferdinand’s care plan. Initially care...
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...Concepts of Nutritional Health Food: It is any substance eaten to nourish the human body. Food can come in two forms; solid or liquid. It can be taken in by the mouth, feeding tube, or for those with health issues it can be directly put into their veins. Food provides your body with energy to enable you to work, grow, repair and participate in activities. The types of food you eat can affect the efficiency of many of your body’s processes. A variety of nutrients make up our food such as carbohydrates, protein, vitamins and minerals. Diet: This refers to the varieties of food and amount an individual ingests daily. Diet does not necessarily relate to a weight loss diet, it also includes every meal, snack and drink a person consumes. A diet is also used to measure the variety of food a person eats to control their nutritional intake to help them lose weight. When a person is on a ‘diet’ they carefully observe what they eat and the volumes in which they eat to help cut out or lower the amount of food containing higher levels of fat to lose weight. Meals and Snacks: A normal diet traditionally includes three meals a day although in today’s society many people get their food or nutrients from eating snacks throughout the day or between meals. Meals are a balanced amount of food which contains the nutrients that our body needs to function efficiently. A snack is a small amount of food which we eat between meals to keep our body fuelled; they are not necessarily unhealthy as...
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...“Barbie Doll” by Marge Piercy and “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” by Ursula LeGuin share many similarities and differences on how society destroys a person physically, emotionally, and mentally. Both the poem and the essay show how society’s expectations can be hurtful to someone. For example, Piercy states, “Everyone saw a fat nose on thick legs” (line 11) and “Doesn’t she look pretty? Everyone said. Consummation at last” (lines 24-25). This explains how society made the expectation of the way the girl should look and at the end when there was nothing they could do for her they found her perfect. In “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” it states, “It looks about six, but actually is nearly ten. It is feeble-minded. Perhaps it was born...
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...In this essay I will describe how the small country of Djibouti, that is often referred to as the “forgotten country” is plagued with drug addiction, poverty, and a high mortality rate. First, Djibouti is plagued with a drug addiction to an opiate based drug called Khat. This drug is a drought tolerant shrub that’s leaves contain a powerful stimulant. The leaves are traditionally chewed and held in the cheek of the user. Khat is popular at every level of society, from beggars on the street to the president of Djibouti; Ismail Omar Guelleh. The khat addiction also plays a huge role of desensitizing the entire population of Djibouti. This small country’s passionate affair with khat has elevated this dry, hot and predominately Muslim area on the Horn of Africa to more than just your average narco-state. Djibouti is not like any other country. Even though Khat isn’t a narcotic, Djibouti is the only country in the world that fits the definition of a narco-society. This is a place where the drug is not a business but a way of life. Khat is literally the drug of choice for ninety-nine percent of the male Djibouti population. Second, the poverty in Djibouti is overwhelming. Djibouti endured a Civil War from 1991 to 1994 which had devastating effects on the economy. Djibouti’s main source of income for the country comes from the port where it handles all of the land locked country of Ethiopia’s Crockett 2 imports and exports. Since the modernization of the port to handle large...
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...Essay 1 In the 1720’s, France, England, and Spain were in competition for land in North America . Spain controlled Florida and France had control of Canada and the Louisiana territory. England decided to build the first British garrison in the Georgia colony . The fort was established in 1721 as the southernmost outpost of British North America . The fort was constructed at the mouth of the Altamaha River to protect the British claim to the Georgia colony and also the surrounding area was rich in natural resources and was accessible to different waterways . The fort was a triangular shaped earthen fortification consisting of moats, palisade, and a twenty-six square-foot blockhouse . It also contained a twenty-six foot cypress-log blockhouse that had three levels . The first level held powder, ammunition, and had the supply storage room . On the second level there was a gun and cannon port room . The windows gave a great view of the Altamaha Delta and Saint Simon Island in the distance . A lookout post was on the third floor ....
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...Overpopulation in India, Causes, consequences, solutions Felipe Benjumea Juan Casares EAS Overpopulation occurs when the number of people living in an area exceeds the limit the area is capable of having. In other words the relationship between the human population and its local environment is unbalanced. This is problematic because as individuals, we rely on a local area for subsistence; therefore, we are limited by the productivity of a given area. If productivity does not meet our demands, nature will be in charge of balancing the scale. However, we as humans are animals of reason. Therefore we are capable, through technology and culture, of living in an area that should, in theory, be unable to support us. And what makes it worst is the fact that, regardless of political (countries) and geographical barriers, we all share a common home called mother earth. Therefore overpopulation affects the individual area suffering from it, and, because of globalization, the rest of the world. However, the countries most affected by extreme population are of course the countries suffering from it. In our world there are many countries, principally, Asian countries that reside under this “deplorable” conditions of overpopulation. To understand overpopulation, it is necessary to analyze the underlying reasons behind it, the consequences of it, and most importantly the solutions for it. Like mentioned above, culturally and geographically, Asian countries are more prone to suffer...
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...Sociologist Paul Ehrlich studied the figures for birth rates and death rates of developing countries and compared them with food production and malnutrition rates, he concludes that the birth rate ‘must be brought into balance with the death rate or mankind will breed itself into oblivion’. As item A states ‘the developed world consumes 5/6 of the world’s resources and each person in the developed world consumes around 20 times as much as a person in the developing world’, to understand the causes of such figures claimed in item A and the predictions made by Ehrlich, we must look at the demographic causes linked to both population and overconsumption. This essay will assess whether or not overconsumption has in fact become more of a problem than overpopulation to the world’s development and what such sociological views and perspectives support this view, focusing particularly in dependency, modernization and Malthusian views. Firstly we look at the Malthusian view of population growth as an issue; we need to consider the effects of famine on the developing world and how this is linked to the growth of the world’s population. Sociologist Malthus argues that populations rise more quickly than the world’s ability to feed them; and that such limits on food supply would lead to natural checks on population such as famine and malnutrition, this suggests that the developing...
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...objected to GM foods including food safety issues and customers’ economics concerns. This essay will discuss the extent to which GM foods influence how people and what types of GM food exist in daily food. Ever now, some developing countries still have famine and malnutrition. One of the most significant problems facing poor countries currently is the rapid climb in population. In the last two decades, the population of the world is doubled. As the population of the world is increased, which becoming a global issue, the most important problem is that the shortage of food. Most worryingly, over 800 million people still have too much poverty to eat. Meanwhile, there is a slowly increased in yield-enhancing crop (Lipton, 2001). According to Bouis (2007), the authors suggest, ‘one way that biotechnology can help to improve the nutrition and health of consumers in developing countries is by increasing the vitamin and mineral content and their bioavailability in staple foods’. Bouis suggested that the supply of food adapted to the population, and the only way to solve this problem is that biotechnology can grow the crops’ output and adaptive capacity, which it through genetic engineering to change hereditary character of crops. First of all, it not only deal with food supplies that are concentrated in those countries which are least capable of providing a living for them, but also the malnutrition problem can be solved through genetically engineering. It is the simplest approach to solve...
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..._____________________________________________________________________ CREDIT Research Paper No. 01/05 _____________________________________________________________________ Reducing Child Malnutrition: How Far Does Income Growth Take Us? by Harold Alderman, Simon Appleton, Lawrence Haddad, Lina Song and Yisehac Yohannes _____________________________________________________________________ Centre for Research in Economic Development and International Trade, University of Nottingham 2 The Centre for Research in Economic Development and International Trade is based in the School of Economics at the University of Nottingham. It aims to promote research in all aspects of economic development and international trade on both a long term and a short term basis. To this end, CREDIT organises seminar series on Development Economics, acts as a point for collaborative research with other UK and overseas institutions and publishes research papers on topics central to its interests. A list of CREDIT Research Papers is given on the final page of this publication. Authors who wish to submit a paper for publication should send their manuscript to the Editor of the CREDIT Research Papers, Professor M F Bleaney, at: Centre for Research in Economic Development and International Trade, School of Economics, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UNITED KINGDOM Telephone (0115) 951 5620 Fax: (0115) 951 4159 CREDIT Research Papers are distributed free...
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...What is a GM crop? According to WHO Genetically modified (GM) foods are foods derived from organisms whose genetic material (DNA) has been modified in a way that does not occur naturally. But with this gift comes with a great burden. In this essay I will be discussing the pros and cons of GM crops, like is this going to revolutionize agriculture, increase yields and profit for farmers or is it going to bring a great amount of trouble like the evolution of super weeds and super bugs. Is this a giant leap for the future or is it a wolf in sheep’s clothing? The first commercial GM crop was Flavr Savr tomato created in California. Flavr Savr was engineered to slow the ripening process of the tomato and prevent it from softening, while still allowing the tomato to maintain red and juicy for longer. However the process of transferring genes for one organism to another is a time consuming processes as you have no control to where the gene will attach or even if the proportion of DNA it lands is the part you want. This combing all these factors together we can see that genetic engineering is a very expensive procedure. But even with all this complication we can still invest our money in to it as we can see the countless benefits GM crops have. Let us start with a simple advantage of GM crops it is the reduction of chemicals released into the environment. It is argued that, by modifying crops to resist certain pests or diseases, farmers can reduce or even eliminate the need to spray...
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...The Globalization of Eating Disorders Before the 20th century, scientist thought that the malnutrition problems would only happened in the developing nations from the starvations. However, the malnutrition problems surprisingly appeareces in the new millennium in both developing and developed countries due to eating disorders and body image disturbances. Many researchers assume that the eating disorders in the modern society include psychological troubles such as self-critical thoughts and emotions, which lead individuals to a pessimistic mood. From the mentioned points above, I believe that western culture leads women’s eating disorders through media and personal relationships with westerners. I found specific researchers and their studies to support and explain my possition: a essay, entitled “The Globalization of Eating Disorders” written by Susan Bordo from Gilbert H. Muller’s book The New Worlds Reader, an research article published in the magazine International Journal Of Eating Disorders entitled “Boday Image and Eating Disturbance Among South Asian-American Women: The Role of Racial Teasing”, by Dana Sahi Iyer and Nick Haslam, and the seventh chapter, entitled “Sociocultural Influences: The Impact of Western Culture on Eating and Body Image Disturbances”, of the book Too Fat or Too Thin: A Reference Guide to Eating Diorders by Cynthia R Kalodner. During reading three resources, I come up with question how western culture impacts eating disorders due to the standards...
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...in Chivi, Zimbabwe. Its main objective is to identify mitigation policies and measures designed to reduce negative effects of poor nutrition on children’s academic performance. Malnutrition remains one of the major obstacles to human well-being affecting all areas of a child's growth and development, including performance in the classroom. The study is grounded in Maslow’s motivational and needs theory. In this study, a qualitative phenomenological case study design was used with focus group discussions, interviews and observations as data collection instruments to twelve (12) grade seven learners, three (3) headmasters and four (4) teachers, purposively sampled in Masvingo province. Findings revealed that malnutrition affected physical growth, cognitive development and it consequently impacts on academic performance, health and survival of learners. Malnutrition also deepens poverty due to increased health care costs. The study also established that hungry and undernourished grade seven learners were not able to take on physical work and sporting activities seriously, are less able to attend school and if they do, are less able to concentrate and learn. On the way forward, there is need to introduce nutritional gardens at community, school and at family levels. Addressing the root causes of malnutrition (such as food insecurity, poverty, population growth and socio-economic instability) is imperative for achieving sustained reductions in...
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