Hemp could be an easy more efficient and more environmentally friendly alternative to cotton. For hundreds of years hemp was used to make various commercial products like paper, rope, canvas and textiles. Many years ago hemp was unjustly banned. However, hemp has recently been rediscovered as a plant that has enormous environmental, economic, and commercial potential. The major problems with cotton are that the plantations require a lot of herbicides and pesticides, they use a lot fertilizer and they use up massive quantities of water.
National Cranberry Cooperative Case Report The National Cranberry Cooperative has to change the operational format of receiving plant #1 to meet production requirements during the high volume period of the cranberry harvest while reducing the costs of trucks waiting, overtime and inaccuracy of the grading process. The two types of harvesting techniques are water(wet) and dry which require different procedures to process them. The specific issues that have to be evaluated are the current maximum capacity the plant can handle at this time, the cost of labour (including overtime), the wait time to unload trucks as well as the benefits/cost of capital investments for the fifth Kiwanee dumper that was installed the past winter, installation of 2 new dryers, conversion of the holding bins to wet/dry units as well as a light meter for color grading. Based on the average “busy” day having 16,700 barrels (bbls) delivered a day, 70% would be wet berries (11,690 bbls) and 30% would be dry berries (5010 bbls). To achieve this operational level the following evaluations were made.
Although the intention was good prohibition actually negatively affected the populations’ health because they turned to hard liquor instead of beer. While the supply of alcohol drastically decreased the demand remained the same. Due to the ban on importing or manufacturing of alcoholic beverages in the U.S, it became more difficult to get beverages containing lower amounts of alcohol (e.g. Beer and wine) while getting hard liquor became easier because it was easier to manufacture and smuggle across borders into the country. The higher alcohol content in hard liquor was more effective for getting drunk yet it also took its toll on the population’s health.
Taste Test: Splenda vs. Sugar Taste Test: Splenda vs. Sugar Introduction Americans are more health conscience now than they were decades ago which is why they are completely dedicated to finding ways to consistently reducing the caloric and sugar intake in their diets. As a result, many are focusing on the use of artificial sweeteners and sugar substitutes. Because of this health conscience era, the use of Splenda, in particular is used in just about every food, drink, candy etc. Splenda, along with other artificial sugar product, is popular because it does not add any calories, but what makes Splenda stand apart from other sugar substitutes is its claim that it is made from sugar and taste exactly like sugar. Although widely accepted, there are those that prefers the use and taste of nothing but regular sugar because they do not like the tast of the artificial sugars on the market, however, although Splenda’s claim of being made from sugar and taste exactly like sugar, there are those that swear that they could taste the difference between the two.
The key drinks that this book was about were beer, wine, sprits, coffee, tea, and Coca-Cola. Beer was made in a place called Mesopotamia between 10,000 and 4,000 BCE. Beer was crucial in the arrangement of some cultures and economy, or people were paid in beer in return of work. The next drink is Wine; Wine was mostly used in religious ceremonies and for people higher in the social classes. Greece and Rome were to be the home of wine, where it was most popular.
It is worth mentioning that the bottling industry does not have to adhere to the same strict standards as the tap water industry. They only have to perform chemical and microbes testing about one fourth as often as tap water. Also, water bottles that are manufactured and sold instate often fall
The retail prices of these of their wines ranges from $2 to upwards of $20. The amount of vineyards owned by these wineries ranges from 700 to 17000 acres. There wineries offer diverse brands and most of them haven’t restrained themselves to a specific category of wine. Threat to entry: Low The wine industry is pretty mature in the United States with multiple established players already have either joint partnerships with independent growers or have their own vineyards. Entering a US market would be difficult since setting up a winery is a capital intense project and a new entrant may not be able to match the flexibility of prices or brands of the established players.
Describe how the use of plant fibres and starch may contribute to sustainability Plant fibres such as hemp, jute, manila, flax and sisal have been used for centuries to make ropes, paper and cloth. They usually have to be extracted from the plant first. The fibres are very long sclerenchyma cells and xylem tissues and are usually very tough and cellulose and lignified cellulose are not easily broken down either by chemicals or by enzymes. On the other hand, the matrix of pectates and other compounds around the fibres, lignin included, can usually be dissolved or removed. Plant fibres are known for having great tensile strength and therefore cannot be easily broken by pulling.
Benjamin Franklin owned a mill that made hemp paper. Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence on hemp paper. Hemp can be made into fine quality paper. The long fibers in hemp allow the paper to be recycled several times more than wood-based paper. “Kimberly Clark from the show (fortune 500) has a mill in France which produces hemp paper preferred for bibles because it lasts a very long time and doesn’t yellow.” Marijuana is less harmful then cocaine ,which is a very dangerous drug.
One of the subtopics of biology is fermentation. Fermentation was used between 7000 and 8000 years ago making beer, wine, and bread. The two beverages were also a symbolic way to distinguish social statues, the better your wine or beer was the higher you were in the society. Today we have all types of fermented foods from bread, coffee, pickles, beer, cheese,