Industrial Agriculture

Harsh Patel

English 101

Professor Wynter

28 July 2014

Industrial Agriculture: How Americans are Affected each Day without Consent.

Daisaku Ikeda, the president of Soka Gakkai, a Japanese lay of the Nichiren Buddhist movement, once quoted that “Humanity has experienced many revolutionary changes over the course of history: revolutions in agriculture, in science, industrial production, as well as numerous political revolutions. But these have all been limited to the external aspects of our individual and collective lives.” Every coin has two sides, like industrial agriculture. The positive side of industrial agriculture is that it proliferates the production while its negative side is that it impacts the human population because of its excessive use of pesticides, insecticides and genetically engineered DNA. Since newly advanced technology in the agricultural industry, cows, corn, and tilapia are being injected with growth hormones to raise their production, when these animals, crops, or any material made from them is consumed by the public in Washington State, and certain areas of the USA, diseases like cancer and allergies arise. Corn is being injected with genetically modified DNA (GM) to raise its production, and when this crop is consumed by the public, they may fall sick. Cows are being injected with hormones to force them to produce more milk. This milk may give rise to cancer in people who drink it. Tilapia fish are being injected with hormones to change its gender so that it can grow faster and bigger. This tilapia creates liver cancer in human who consume it.

Genetically modified DNA is being injected in corn to increase its production. When this corn is consumed by people, it develops diseases like cancer. Farmers are injecting the DNA of other plants and animals in corn to protect their plants from weeds, insects, and pests. By altering the DNA of corn, farmers require less water to grow so that crop can be grown in drought areas, but the...