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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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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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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This process raises the temperature of the atmosphere near the Earth, which in turn raises sea level, increases evaporation and precipitation to affect global cloud cover; and thereby alters the distribution of climate across the surface of the planet. ... The desire of developed countries for inexpensive meat and forest products is another major contributor to deforestation. ...

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Soils are very important because they influence the types of plants (and thus plant communities) that will grow within a particular bioclimatic zone, and as substrates to animals as well. ... Its importance is greater than the sum of its individual plant parts, as many species of animals, for example, are influenced greatly by the physical structure of the plant community, still others by the actual species of plants present. ... Plant and animal adaptations are the physical manifestations of organic evolution. ... PLANT ADAPTATIONS. The basic needs of plants are homeostasis, space, food, pr...

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Does McDonald's offer a model which other businesses should follow? At first, most people must have laughed at the idea of a chain of restaurants selling identical products all over the country, but little did they know that the genius idea that they had mocked would go on to revolutionise the busi...

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ABSTRACT Background: The global increase in the incidence and prevalence of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) has become a major concern of the public health. The growth of cases of T2DM has attained an epidemic number, and the epidemic is anticipated to maintain its rise. The global incidence of T2DM has been predicted to rise up to 438 million by the year 2030. Considering the effect of the disease on affected individuals' quality of life (QOL) and its economic problem it is significant to implement programs to prevent this disease. ...

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