Genetically Modified Organism Use in the Chicken Industry

The rapid growth rate of broiler chickens makes simply moving from one place to another a difficult and painful task. A 2008 study of more than 50,000 chickens found that by the age of 40 days, over 27 percent of the birds had impaired locomotion capabilities and 3.3 percent were almost unable to walk. This large percentage of lame birds becomes even more disturbing when we consider that chickens whom the farmers considered lame had already been culled due to welfare policies.

The chicken is no longer just a chicken. Depending on what they are bred for, modern chickens are either “layers” or “broilers.” Bred, of course, to lay eggs, layers have been so dramatically altered that they can lay more than 250 eggs per year, while their ancestors in the jungle laid about two dozen annually. They do not grow fast enough to be used for meat, however, which is why all of the non-egg-producing males of the layer breeds are killed soon after hatching. This is where the “broilers” come in.

http://www.onegreenplanet.org/animalsandnature/the-genetically-modified-chicken-how-we-have-altered-broiler-chickens-for-profit/

Because more and more people eat chicken so some they found out away to make more chicken. So they did GMO chicken. They will grow faster and bigger, but this kind of way is bad for human's health.

According to the Roslin Institute, “the nature of the genetic modification is such that it is extremely unlikely that it could have any negative effects on people consuming the chickens or their eggs.”

Beginning in December 2014 and continuing into early this year, outbreaks of bird flu were reported in 21 states in U.S. According to the Centers for Disease Control, more outbreaks may occur in the coming fall and winter. Wild birds can infect domestic flocks that come into contact with their feathers or droppings. Although there are no reported cases of birds infecting humans, there have been cases of people getting sick from bird flu in Africa and Asia, according to the World Health Organization.

Thiamine mononitrate

Thiamine mononitrate is a stable nitrate salt form of thiamine (vitamin B1). It occurs as a white crystalline powder and is prepared from thiamine hydrochloride. It is used as a food or nutritional supplement and is the preferred form of the vitamin for food fortification. Thiamin mononitrate is used in the pharmaceutical industry to treat beriberi and general malnutrition or malabsorption.^[1] Thiamine can be found naturally in foods like grains, yeast, molasses, pork and animal organ meats. Dairy, eggs and legumes have smaller amounts.

Though thiamine is found naturally in foods, thiamine mononitrate is not. Thiamine mononitrate is synthesized by removing a chloride ion from thiamin hydrochloride and mixing the final product with nitric acid. Thiamine hydrochloride is hygroscopic (water-absorbing) whereas the mononitrate has almost no hygroscopic properties. For this reason, the mononitrate is the more stable form of the vitamin in fortified flours and cereals.

2/25/16

• I think GM foods are good for us. The vast majority of the research on genetically modified (GM) crops suggests that they are safe to eat and that they have the potential to feed millions of people worldwide who currently go hungry. Traditionally, a plant breeder tries to exchange genes between two plants to produce offspring that have desired traits. This is done by transferring the male (pollen) of one plant to the female organ of another.

• GM foods are developed – and marketed – because there is some perceived advantage either to the producer or consumer of these foods. This is meant to translate into a product with a lower price, greater benefit (in terms of durability or nutritional value) or both. Initially GM seed developers wanted their products to be accepted by producers and have concentrated on innovations that bring direct benefit to farmers (and the food industry generally).
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Feb 3, 2016

Ridiculous Victorian Etiquette Rules

1. The most famously ridiculous item of a Victorian woman's wardrobe was the crinoline. As a substitute for layers of heavy petticoats, these wide steel-constructed domed cages held women's skirts far from their legs. Such devices made it easy to use the chamber pot, perhaps, but maneuvering in small spaces became a challenge. Women also had to relearn how to sit elegantly. Nevertheless, it was the popular fashion, and every fine upper class lady had one. Later in the century, fashion favored crinolines, which propped up just the rear of the dress.

2. Strict guidelines governed social interaction on promenades and public thoroughfares, especially between the sexes. A young unmarried woman would not go out without an escort. Etiquette forbade young ladies from looking around for acquaintances or stopping to chat in a crowded thoroughfare.

3. Proper introductions were important to Victorians, as it was generally considered improper to address someone to whom you hadn't been formally presented. Social inferiors were presented to social superiors in an introduction, with the exception that ladies were always introduced to gentlemen regardless of rank.

4.If you arrived in town for an extended visit, it was customary to go around leaving your calling card.

5. When a formal visit was accepted or arranged, one wouldn't wear anything showy.

6. When a girl was presented at court, in the eyes of the Victorians, she transformed from being underage and off-limits to suddenly being marriageable.

7. look only within their own class for a mate. The common law customs of entail and primogeniture, which kept estates whole and in the hands of first-born males, had unfortunate repercussions for those seeking a marriage of mutual affection.

8. At balls, ladies generally had dance cards on which to write the names of their partners. According to Cassell's, a promise to dance, once made, was sacred and "should not on any account be broken."

9. When a Victorian gentleman wishes to propose, he first "ascertains the state of a lady's feelings towards himself before he makes a positive declaration of his love." He then had to seek out a blessing from the lady's father before the engagement was official.

Before he obtained this blessing, the couple had to suspend communication and "live towards each other as perfect strangers for the time" . This could be a while, as getting this blessing meant settling financial matters. A gentleman presented his own financial situation, and the family would present what fortune a lady had. A lady would generally get a portion of her fortune for her own use, and then the principal was put in a trust — the interest of which could go to the husband. Once official, if one party chose to break an engagement, the other could sue for damages. 

The world is too much with us

The poet compassion modern human's life, too indulge in the secular, fame and fortune, too busy to close to nature, not to be moved by the simplicity of life. Unlike society, Wordsworth does not see nature as a commodity. The verse "Little we see in Nature that is ours", shows that in Wordsworth's eyes, human and nature should coexist. The phrase "sleeping flowers" might also describe how nature is being overrun unknowingly and is helpless. Wordsworth said the world is too overwhelming for us to appreciate it. We're so concerned about time and money that we use up all our energy. People want to accumulate stuff, so they see nothing in nature that they can "own".