However, meat intake should be restricted as research shown that meat, especially processed meat, are a risk factor of cancer and cardiovascular disease. Meat are identified as the richest source of proteins. ... Meat is a major dietary source of vitamin B12. ... As meat consumption is necessitate for good health, a meat demanding diet has recognized to use up many more natural resource that plants diet. ... Yet, moderate intake and avoidance of processed meat is recommended as it can cause diseases....

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Vegetarian VS Meat Everyday most of the world's population eats meat products, while small percentage have chosen different life style by being vegetarian. ... The burning of forests also causes extinction of animals and plants. 3) The cancer argument against meat-eating: The consumption of meat also has various cancer risks such as breast cancer, fatal ovarian cancer, or fatal prostate cancer. ... "Of all the antibiotics used in US 50 % are used on livestock" (Robbins3). 7) The pesticide argument against meat-eating: Most meat-eaters are unaware of the fact that meat contains ...

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In addition, Perdue Farms, Inc. included a wellness program that was conveniently located at several plants, to minimize the absence of employees on a given day. ... To date the company's most significant R&D success is the selective breeding program that is used to increase the size of its chicken breast and that yields whiter meat from its chickens. ... Throughout the company's existence, Perdue has been alleged to have cause pollution to waters that were surrounding its hometown base plant located in Maryland. Although it has not been proven the company thinks that the cause of ...

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Cows are fed a diet of dead chickens, corn or sometimes even cow meat to increase their body weight so more meat can be obtained from them. ... Coli that are the cause of so many meat recalls and the death of many children and adults. ... The corn produced in the US is genetically modified (70 percent) and it's added in clever ways to each and every processed food in the supermarket. ... The third problem we saw is the control and regulation of the meat processing plants. The plants practice such unhygienic ways and the animals could be ill or have any disease they are still processed. ...

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Organic compounds also make up enzymes and catalysts that are mandatory for essential biological processes to occur. ... Failure of ion transport may result in the failure of an important biological process in the body. ... Agricultural and food chemistry uses both organic and analytical methods to continually develop new research regarding plant toxins, contaminates and additives, amino acids, foreign material, pesticide residue, etc. Imported and exported meat is tested for anabolic steroids while pesticide residues are measured in soils and water. The synthesis of metabolites and other s...

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The 1890 Food Inspection Act came from these restrictions to prevent and detect bad meat imports as we as poor quality meat in the U.S. 1905, a book was published that had a major effect on the meat packaging industries. ... Products produced with complicated processing methods mad in mass volumes caused the contamination interests due to pesticides, drugs given to animals and the preservatives. ... The Wholesome Meat Act of 1967 aloud federal laws to require states channel inspections of meat to raise more adequate meat standards. ... In 1972, the Animal and Plant Health Inspections was cr...

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At the same time, GM food also have an effect on the environment .Intensive agriculture has already led to a significant decline in farmland plants, insects and birds, "although the specific role of herbicides on this process was less clear," the report says. ... It would involve creating plants with unintended gene combinations. ... This will dramatically increase the benefits we can get from GMF such as crop plants that are engineered for drought tolerance, altered life cycle time, and nutrient balance; produce that can be easily processed; foods that have enhanced flavor, etc. ... Technic...

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If not the U.S. government will step in to protect the public and correct any harmful methods or additives used in the process. ... We must remove chemicals from the process of growing, harvesting, and preserving food. ... Basically the process is rearranging the plants DNA and certain genes through molecular biology taking specific beneficial traits from different species of the plant in the same family, and combining their strengths into one modified seed. For example if one plant repels weeds, and another resists insects, mutating them together creates a more resistant hybrid plant to pests...

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Fungi have a vital position in the plants ecosystems, especially in the association to plants and soils as they exist on earth. ... This report is a simple observational review of identified substrates, the process and procedure utilized to potentiate this observation for fungal growth, the resultant fungal growth that occurred with discussion of findings inclusive of similarities and differences found to be actualized by the experimental process. ... Any contamination would have eliminated them from use prior to the planting. ... It was not until day seven of observation that the meat of ...

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It has been used in increasing the production plant and animal food, developing disease-resistant plants, diagnosing disease, improving medical treatments, and producing vaccines and other useful drugs. ... A process known as recombinant DNA, where scientists directly alter genetic material, has recently revolutionized genetic engineering. ... Other uses of genetic engineering include the area of animal production; research is presently being performed to provide society with leaner meat, larger animals and faster growth. ... Environmentalists also fear that plants that have been genetically ...

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This begins with healthy soil that stores water and nutrients and provides a stable base to support plant roots. ... The U.S. government spends billions of dollars each year to subsidize crops used to produce processed foods and sugary drinks-the same foods the USDA's nutritional guidelines tell people to eat less of. ... Smart, science-based food and farm policies can increase every American's access to fresh fruits and vegetables, saving thousands of lives and billions of healthcare dollars in the process. ... High-fructose corn syrup is found in almost all high processed food and ...

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Even though there is ongoing fear about the future health costs to consuming GMOs, humans have been growing and breeding plants and animals for decades. ... Through selective breeding, crops are able to be bred to grow in a low-till plot, and with the ongoing demand for meat, GMOs can help increase production in farm animals. ... Also, we no longer have to visit tropical places in order to have plants such as coconut, papaya, or kiwi. ... The less need for herbicides decreases the cost for this process. ... Nature is still necessary in terms of growing food and killing insects needed for this ...

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Perhaps most importantly, Buddhism is a questioning process. ... Buddhism is an offspring of Hinduism and magnifies traditional Asian cultural values which "include respects for animals and plants as well as human life; personal achievement may be sought but not at another's expense, and always "exploitation, confrontation, and competition are to avoided" . ... Practically speaking, the Dalai Lama looks to science and education to make mankind aware of safe and unsafe environmental processes; we should make a special effort "to introduce ecology into the school curriculum" . ... There ...

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Furthermore, people are learning that less processed and more plant based food is another way to maintain better health and a cleaner planet. ... Certain animals, such as cats, which are carnivorous by nature, would simply die if they did not eat meat. ... A plant-based diet would reduce our reliance on a system of trade that is harmful to the global poor.' Freston, in her book, "Veganist," argues that everyone should switch from an animal to a plant based diet. ... As a result, many children and even some adults have no clue how far their food has traveled or how much processi...

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We no longer have to rely on agriculture for survival and the production of most foods, which will greatly save money in farming and the food production process. ... Each developer is required to a safety assessment that identifies and accesses new genetic traits, "whether any new material in food made from the genetically engineered plant could be toxic or allergenic when eaten, and a comparison of the levels of nutrients in the genetically engineered plant to traditionally bred plants "(Genetically Engineered Foods). ... Genetically modified foods get a bad name because of people being ign...

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Genetically modified organisms are plant or meat products that been alter in a lab with genes from other plants, viruses, or bacteria in order to produce more food. ... Nevertheless, how did such a potential benefit process became such hazardous products that need labeling? ... Genetically modified corns are ingredient contained in salad dressing, breads, crackers, ice cream, candy, baby formula, processed meat, and many other products that we used every day (A Collaborative Initiative .Non-GMO Options). ... The American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM) conducted research on animals an...

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Many people don't realize that we are the ones creating this trouble by driving our cars everyday, leaving all the lights on as we leave the house, and buying all this processed food. ... For example, Pollan states that he started to ride his bike to work, plant a garden, turned down the thermostat and used laundry lines all because he bothered. ... Planting a garden in return will provide people with healthier and tastier food, reconnect them with their neighbors, help save money and reduce the cheap-energy mind. ... All it takes is planting a garden instead of driving to the store and b...

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Further, he helped many Americans including men, women, and children with the Pure Food and Drug Act, which established a federal agency enforce the quality and labeling of food and drugs, and the Meat Inspection Act. ... In document B the NEILL-Reynolds report shed light on the filthy conditions of meat process plant that were horrifying. ...

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Wells wrote those words in his novel The Time Machine in 1895; he recognized man's ability to alter other organisms; however, at that time it was a gradual, slow, and clumsy process. ... No longer does the gradual process of selective breeding confine improvements; we now have the ability to genetically modify a species' specific characteristics within a single generation (Ford 65). ... Although man has been varying the make-up of other organisms through breeding for thousands of years, a forum of distinguished scientists and educators called SCOPE explain that "the terms genetic...

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For example, New York has one of the cleanest drinking water systems in the world, the Hudson River, which has allowed it to save a tremendous amount of money in filtration plants. If the Hudson was contaminated by some of the dangerous chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing, the amount of money that would have to be spent on specialized treatment plants would cripple the economy. ... There are many other reasons as to why CO2 levels in the atmosphere have skyrocketed such as our transportation system and meat industry. ... (The Case for a Ban on Fracking 8) Obviously, the assertion made by ...

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Many people don't realize that we are the ones creating this trouble by driving our cars everyday, leaving all the lights on as we leave the house, and buying all this processed food. ... For example, Pollan states that he started to ride his bike to work, plant a garden, turned down the thermostat and used laundry lines all because he bothered. ... Planting a garden in return will provide people with healthier and tastier food, reconnect them with their neighbors, help save money and reduce the cheap-energy mind. ... All it takes is planting a garden instead of driving to the store and b...

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That said, between 1800 and 1840, some Americans began to take care of their homes and yards better by planting tree and flowers or painting their houses. ... New England farmers worked their land with mostly oxen, because these beasts were sure-footed on rocky slopes, cheaper to fed, and could be used for meat. ... Men were the major contributors in the physical field of work, handling the raw materials of farm production and undertaking the first steps in processing the food before handing it off to the women to finish. ... Almanacs helped give insight to the mysteries of natural cycles of ...

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Observing the reaction of properly grown varieties of plants subjected to insects and other pests, Howard found the primary factor in soil management was a consistent supply of fresh humus prepared with vegetable and animal wastes, and that maintaining soil fertility was the fundamental basis for its health. ... His extensive experiments with growing plants and animals substantiated his observations that a declining soil fertility, due to a lack of organic material, major elements, and trace minerals was responsible for poor crops and in turn for pathological conditions of animals fed deficie...

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These are just the questions that Sara Lee executives and employees debated in the process of creating a program called Global Business Practices. ... Delta Galil has plants in Egypt, Israel, Scotland, Jordan, Turkey, and the Dominican Republic. ... It ranks second in the $11 billion US packaged meat industry, and comes first for sales of products like hot dogs and cocktail sausages. ...

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Based on Mayo Clinic research article "The Brand New You, 2014", the word "organic" applies to the way farmers produce agricultural products; such as fruits, vegetables, dairy and meat products. ... When it comes to buying meat, according to Cukan "US Organic Food Market Increases" from the Organicconsumersassociation.org (2013), the report suggested that organic meat is the best because organic animals are not fed antibiotics in a slaughterhouse. ...

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