crops. Among these crops are: apples‚ nuts‚ avocados‚ soybeans‚ asparagus‚ broccoli‚ celery‚ squash and cucumbers. Lots of the really sweet and tart stuff‚ too‚ including citrus fruit‚ peaches‚ kiwi‚ cherries‚ blueberries‚ cranberries‚ strawberries‚ cantaloupe and other melons” (“NBC”). We have to save the bees. Without them our agriculture will wither. Pesticides‚ predominately in colony collapse disorder‚ are the reason bees are dying. In order to rescue the honeybees from extinction it is important
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Persuasive Speech Intro: Today I’d like you to open your mind to the idea of buying organic food‚ by giving you information on what “organic” really means‚ how organic food is more nutritious for you and why it is a safer option‚ opposed to eating food that is contaminated with harsh chemical and pesticides . Main point 1: What does “Organic” mean? Organic agriculture is an ecological production management system that promotes and enhances biodiversity‚ biological cycles and soil biological
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Knee problems run in my family‚ specifically on my dad’s side. My dad had four knee surgeries‚ all on one knee‚ all within five years‚ and is looking at a possible knee replacement in the future. During my freshman year of high school‚ my FFA chapter traveled to Loveland‚ Colorado‚ for a ski trip. Tori Davidson and I partnered up and were skiing on the bunny slopes since we were beginners. As the sun was fading‚ our group decided to ski through a short trail--The Rainbow Trail. At the very end of
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Sun= cantaloupe Earth = ball pen Jupiter= finger tip Pluto= dust * Today we know Solar system has: 1 star‚ 8 planets‚ 5 dwarf planets‚ 139+ moons‚ countless small solar system bodies * A major lesson from all this is that the solar system is almost entirely made of nearly empty space * All planets orbit the sun in the same direction (counter-clockwise) * Most rotate in the same direction * Venus rotates backward * Uranus rotates on its side (equator perpendicular to equator)
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Why do we need bees? We seem to see that bees are just annoying or scary‚ yet do we ever sit back and wonder what would happen if we no longer had these little black and yellow pollinators. Would the world die if the bees were gone or would we all be okay? Well to be honest we are not a 100 percent sure what would happen but there is an idea. Could you imagine a world without apple pie or even just apples? A world without bees seems like a dull one without beautiful flowers‚ lovely fruits and
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cream and eggs they would trade for the various other items they needed for food‚ with a dozen eggs and some cream they could buy enough groceries to eat for a week. His family had a garden that was irrigated through a windmill‚ they had watermelon‚ cantaloupe‚ green beans‚ and peas most of which they canned. For water he had to haul water into the house from the windmill and everyone drank from the same ladle. They had plenty of pork which they salted to preserve it and the beef they would hang in the
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enough of them in order to keep us healthy. In that case we need to supplement them by the foods eaten. Foods such as animal liver (especially turkey)‚ sweet potatoes‚ carrots‚ dark green leafy greens‚ squash‚ dried herbs‚ lettuce‚ apricots‚ and cantaloupe all provide a generous amount of vitamin a (healthaliciousness.com). The people who are in a continuous state of suffering
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with a diet lack of fresh fruits and vegetables are most like to have deficiency in vitamin C. Major sources of vitamin C are citric fruits such as orange and grapefruit‚ but it’s also found in sweet fruits like papaya‚ mango‚ strawberries‚ and cantaloupes. Explain the function of the following: Zinc‚ Iodine‚ Iron‚ Magnesium‚ Calcium and Chromium. Zinc is an essential mineral found in cells throughout the body. It plays an important role in the immune system‚ wound healing‚ and the breakdown of
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Salmonella Introduction Being ill is never pleasant to begin with‚ especially from eating the foods we are fond of. Today‚ there are many food borne illness that can effect us but one of the most universally distributed is Salmonella. Salmonella contagion is a common microbial disease that upset the intestinal tract. They are generally inhabited in human and animal intestines and are transmitted by feces. Humans are exposed with this infection mainly through contaminated water and food .It
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Have you ever eaten something that make your stomach and body not feel quite right? Thought you had just a bad case of the flu‚ but did you ever think it could be something more serious‚ which may lead to your own death or leave you paralyzed? A bacterium called Listeria Monocytogenes may be what you have ingested either from produce‚ liquid‚ or meat products. A gram-positive bacilli‚ which stains purple when tested in laboratory. The bacterium is normally found in a small chains linked together
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