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- Organization: Western Washington University
- Position: Huxley College of the Environment
Dylan Simpson dylantux Huxley College of the Environment Western Washington University Hi! I am environmental science major at WWU, planning to go into research ecology. I want to contribute to the... more »
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Farming history in the United States
American agriculture is marked by several trends The first is the continuing decline of small family farms. Since 1979, 300,000 small farms have disappeared in the United States, and since 1946 the...
Food Politics Blog-Marion Nestle
This blog is packed full of information on local policies about food and agriculture that may shape the future of our food and marketing.
Maureen Agena
The Citizen Journalist I write about Technology for Development, Gender issues especially those that focus on Women: Health, Agriculture, Education. I also put my Citizen Journalism training to wo...
National Geographic Future of Food Series
A great series on the future of food, research on methods around the world and possibilities for the future of agriculture and farming.
Food Pyramids and Plates: What Should You Really Eat?
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) created a powerful icon: the Food Guide Pyramid. This simple illustration conveyed in a flash what the USDA said were the elements of a healthy diet. The P...
Food Pyramids and Plates: What Should You Really Eat?
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) created a powerful icon: the Food Guide Pyramid. This simple illustration conveyed in a flash what the USDA said were the elements of a healthy diet. The P...
Psychology of the appeal of being anti-GMO
A team of philosophers and plant biotechnologists have turned to cognitive science to explain why opposition to genetically modified organisms (GMOs) has become so widespread, despite positive cont...
Agriculture and food allergies
Probably the source of most of the problems of current health topics in the world is what is being produced and consumed all for the intentions of profitability.
Animal Agriculture Impact On Environment
Most people think that pollution from mills and not recycling is the main cause of climate change, global warming, and all of the other drastic phenomena going on right in front of our eyes. But is...
Farming: Past versus Present
Within the last 200 years agriculture has drastically changed, going from 90% of the U.S. population living on farms and producing their own food to 2% that produce their own food. Although the amo...
Contamination of drinking-water by arsenic in Bangladesh: a public health emergency
In light of yesterday’s water leak here in Pullman my attention was drawn to just how much we take simple things, like free accessible drinking water for granted in modern society. The concept of “...
Environment (Week 13)
This is an awesome website that has many links to click on and look at how the climate change is impacting many areas of the world. The temperature of the earth according to climate scientists. Glo...
H.O.P.E. What You Eat Matters - BONUS MATERIAL: Dr. Vandana Shiva (E/DE/AR)
Nourishment is about our relationship to the earth. It matters how are food is grown and where it comes from. Industrial agriculture and food production creates imbalances in the environment (ethic...
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GMOs May Feed the World Using Fewer Pesticides — NOVA Next | PBS
This will add to the controversy I think.
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In class we discussed how local farming has been at a rapid decline due to big corporations. We learned that 80% of our beef comes from only 4 suppliers, and they are big corporations. The local f...
It is very interesting to see that a company who provides proper nutrients, such as milk, needed to put in so much effort into advertising campaigns to get more customers - essentially these custo...
Another website I chose for Chapter 1 assignment was Choosemyplate.gov administered by U.S. department of agriculture. For the first two chapters of our textbook, I thought it would be much more re...
I read this last week Brent and think it's amazing that the flora in industrialized nation is 40% less diverse. I wonder if this is a product of: 1) Antibiotics 2) Modern Agriculture and 3) less e...
Animal agriculture accounts for over 50% of all green house gas emissions in America, so why isn't the government controlling this? I wanted to put this on my shelf because like we talked about in ...
