The good that can come from genetically modified food are; it can make crops pest proof, disease resistant, more nutritious, and intolerable to weather conditions. This will make farmers more confident in their crops and not have to worry so much about losing
This way of improving foods has been taking place traditionally by just crossing two plants together and hoping that the new traits are taken without any negative ones (543). Since this is time consuming and not as accurate, scientists now just introduce the new genes, or traits, through the plants’ DNA. Genetically Engineered foods, although meant to be helpful, pose many problems by causing environmental hazards, human health risks, and economic concerns. To begin with, one of the problems with engineered foods is that they can become hazardous to the surrounding environment. This unintended harm to other organisms is caused by many factors.
Case Study #1 – Monsanto 1. Does Monsanto maintain an ethical culture that can effectively respond to various stakeholders? We can start by defining what ethical culture is. According to our book Business Ethics, it is the component of corporate culture that captures the values and norms that an organization defines as appropriate conduct (Ferrell, Fraedrich, Ferrell, 2008). By what we read, around 1960 Monsanto did not have any ethical culture.
For example, exposing a plant to a certain virus can make it more resistant to disease. Transferring genes from cows to pigs can help
Deforestation is when trees and other vegetation is being removed converting the forest to another land use, this exposed the soil and often leads to erosion and loss of soil fertility. The valuable nutrients of the soil are being washed away by erosion. To prevent this, we need to stop cutting down trees to create so many buildings, business owners should try to find established dwellings to put their business on. Deforestation also poses a threat to the food chain. These three major causes of soil erosion can be prevented and it will benefit everyone as a whole by creating a sustainable society for our environment.
Percy Schmeiser never relied on any genetically modified seeds to preserve or enhance the longevity nor the quality of his plants. Monsanto, Inc. is an agricultural company that introduced farmers to genetically modified canola seeds known as Roundup Ready. Roundup Ready is an herbicide, Monsanto was the first to patent, market, and sell this product to farmers. Monsanto is very protective of its product: Roundup Ready Canola can only be purchased directly from the company. Independent farmers cannot sell the seeds as it is illegal to do so and would result in Monsanto suing the seller and the buyer of the product.
If they were banned, farmers would have to use a different substance, which could also have other damaging effects maybe not on bees, but on other beneficial insects or even humans. Yet, the United States could take steps in order to ensure these pesticides are used more sparingly or push to discover a new, unharmful pesticide. Heather Pilatic of the Pesticide Action Network, recommends a return to pest management strategies used widely through the 1990s, when pesticide-treated seeds and genetically modified crops allowed farmers to modify their growing strategies. This could help ensure less of the pesticides are exposed to the bees and keep them safer and able to coordinate properly. If our nation would work together to cut down on these awful chemicals, the bees would start to
Professor Ian Campbell from Australia's Peter MacCallum Cancer Center says that no scientific evidence showing that GM food is harmful to people's health has been presented to date. (Campbell p.4) It illustrates that GM foods are still not unsafe to people. "As long as the GM food comes out in the markets, it means that it has been proved they won’t hurt people’s health," Yunbo Luo states," and GM foods will be digested in our stomachs without changing people’s own genes at all, which is just like other traditional foods." I am for him and some of my classmates as well. We have learned that modern biological technology in high school and got to know the safety of GM foods.
Pesticide use and drift can affect air quality; pesticides in the food chain can threaten wildlife populations; and soil may no longer be suitable for optimal crop production. Pesticides are now recognized to be non-point sources of water pollution. As a result, pesticide practices are being watched closely. As pesticide applicators, it is important to do your job carefully by both controlling pest populations and at the same time protecting the environment from the potential adverse effects of pesticide use. The human race needs a place to live with clean air and
Introduction: Soil inhabiting microbes play chief role in damaging juvenile plants under nursery. Pre-emergence or post-emergence nature of damage may leads to complete damage. However, many serious diseases are associated with soil-borne plant pathogens, which results in damping off, root rot, crown rot and wilts in various field and horticultural crops especially in nursery stage. Soil borne diseases are a common problem in nursery production which leads to sustainable economic loss by attacking the juvenile plants at early stage of life. Practical application of this knowledge will lead to healthier plants and improved plant growth with greater uniformity.