This was recently a talk over the news, social media platforms, radio broadcast and even on newspapers (e.g., TV Patrol, reported by News Anchor Karen Davila and Julius Babao, Manila Bulleti, published by Madelaine B. Miraflor on the 25th of October 2019) happened on the day of November 4, 2019. An ASF virus also known as African Swine Fever has spread all over the Philippines particularly Pampanga, Rizal, Bulacan, Pangasinan, Nueva Ecija, Cavite Provinces and in Metro Manila that killed...
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Compounds derived from natural sources, as well as industrial and agricultural waste, are examples of food contaminants. Food contaminants found naturally are mostly of microbiological origin, including pathogenic organisms and some other fungal and bacterial toxins. Food is among the most significant priority for public security because it is one of most basic components of living organisms. As a result, precautions are needed to make sure that food stuffs are exempt from contaminants that enter the food supply via food...
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The question of whether organic food is really a better alternative to its counterparts is a pervasive one. Many people would simply answer with ‘No’ or ‘I don’t know’. Said question has created much conversation over the past decade, sparking many arguments and driving many studies. Unfortunately, not many people are sufficiently educated on the expansive topic of organic food and are therefore more drawn to genetically modified food simply because of its availability and lower price tag. Despite the...
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Organic food is usually recognized to become foods grown without pesticides, pesticides or even in the event of creatures, at and fewer drugs living circumstances. Organic food is well known as being healthier and is more costly. But, is it worth the price? In this paper I'm going to analyze this topic. A Marketing Scam Organic food is an advertising scam, as stated by the Hoover Institute. They believe altering tagging scare strategies and laws motivates people to purchase organic....
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When we eat natural products, our stock of energy increments in a matter of seconds; this is one of the prime advantages of organic products that we can use in our bustling timetables. This is the motivation behind why competitors frequently eat organic product during and after exercise and why diets for pregnant moms quite often include natural products. Heart Health Organic foods like apricot, apple, banana, melon, berries, grapefruit, and orange, are unimaginable for securing your heart as they're...
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The UK's economy is highly developed and market-oriented. It is the world's sixth-largest national economy, calculated by nominal gross domestic product (GDP), ninth-largest by purchasing power parity (PPP), and twenty-second-largest by GDP per capita, accounting for 3.3% of world GDP. The UK was the world's tenth-largest exporter of products in 2016 and the fifth-largest importer of goods. It also had the second-largest foreign direct investment abroad, and the third-largest foreign direct investment outward. The United Kingdom is one of the...
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Have you ever thought about the food you eat? Of course, you have, we all do. We think about the taste, the ingredients and the health benefits, but that’s it. We don’t question where the food comes from and we barely think about all the chemicals and toxins added to it, because most foods that we are surrounded with are all the same. Food companies that we enjoy are not organically produced for the most part, but are just easier...
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Today, organic food and farming are one of the leading industries that customers are buying, because it is free of chemicals and pesticides in the farming processing. The consumers are concerned about how animals are used in its production process when it comes to natural resources and how farmers cultivate their products. Over the past few years, organic food products have grown around 48% during 2010 to 2018. In organic food processing, the production in the farming systems is maintained...
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The purpose of this report is to evaluate the various factors that influence consumers to buy organic products based on various socio-demographic factors such as age, employment, consumption rate and buying patterns. Consumer Awareness of Organic Foods According to Soler et al. (2008), Freeland-Graves and Nitzke (2010), understanding and education are the two key critical factors influencing consumer’s attitudes against organic products. Chakrabarti (2007), Compagnoni et al. (2010) and Cunningham (2012) performed a number of scientific studies to determine the...
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When you are eating organic food from the supermarket, do you ever attempt to define organic? Or ever wonder why it’s so expensive compared to non-organic foods? Well, basically, according to dictionary.com, organic is defined as “of food or farming methods produced or involving production without the use of chemical fertilizers, pesticides, or other artificial agents” (Dictionary.com). To simplify, a type of food product that is grown with all natural materials and is processed in a clean environment. Comparatively, organic...
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Have you ever used or been eating organic food? I assume you have at least some points in your life if you have, there’s probably reasons for it. Like that it's healthy, in the way that it has a higher nutritional value, better for the environment and the animals. Those are all completely true. However, you also maybe just don’t want to or can’t eat organic food. And I accept that. But are you really doing it for the right...
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Abstract: Epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG) is a polyphenol from green tea extract is known to suppress the human pancreatic cancer in-vitro. Its anti-proliferative action mediated by caspase-3-activation, nuclear condensation and poly-ADP ribose polymerase cleavage. Pancreatic cancer cell death by EGCG is mediated by arresting growth at an initial stage of cell cycle. EGCG involves depolarisation mitochondrial membrane to allow cytochrome-c release into cytosal. EGCG increased the production of intracellular release oxygen species (ROS), along with C-Jun-N-terminal kinase activation in pancreatic carcinoma cells....
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Food Safety is the proper handling, cooking, and preservation of food to protect people from foodborne illnesses. Preparing and cooking food properly is key to preventing foodborne illness and loss of income from missing work. Food Safety also contributes to health care, millions are spent each year form infections from food. Many people suffer from a lack of knowledge and proper food handling procedures. Tampering Food tampering is the deliberate contamination of food with the intent to cause harm. Tampering...
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There is a famous quote that goes by the words, “In winter’s chill or summer’s heat, a farmer works so the world can eat”. In a country like the Philippines where agriculture is the basis of the economy, farmers are known to be the backbone of society. In line with the future of Filipino farmers, last February 2019 the Rice Tariffication Law was signed by President Rodrigo Duterte. It is considered an act that liberalizes rice importing, exporting, trading and...
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According to dictionary, a food is any nutritious substance that people or animals eat or drink or that plants absorb in order to maintain life and growth. Eating is one of the key nutrients that nourishes our body and keeps us strong and healthy and above all from illness. Nutrition is the most vital component of our body's energy so we can be active in our daily activities. All parts of our body need it like digestion, maintaining a clean...
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Rice imports are the number of metric tons pertaining to rice products entering a country's borders in a given year. Rice has been a major food for us. Here in our country, there are a lot of convenience food chains that offer ‘unli rice’ to people who love to eat rice. We export rice to other countries to continue the flow of dollar in our country and be able to have connections to other countries to supply our needs. I...
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My essay is about whether or not rice plantations should continue in Australia. Many people see the rice plantations as an economic benefit but rice plantations also take up a lot of water which may be needed in other agriculture. Other farming businesses have had to close down because of the limited availability of water with the majority of the water taken up by rice plantations. In Australia, rice was first harvested and sold in 1914 near Swan Hill, Victoria....
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Being a member of the World Trade Organization since 1 January 1995, the Philippines must comply with its rules which entails to elimination of trade barriers and limitations. Wherein the Philippines was granted an exemption from the removal of its quotas on rice importation. The exemption was meant to expire in 2014, and further lengthen until the passage of the Rice Tariffication Bill enacted into law by the Pres. Rodrigo Duterte himself on 14 February 2019, amending the Agricultural Tariffication...
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Rice or known locally as palay, bigas, kanin is a staple for Filipinos and is rarely missing from the table, be it breakfast, lunch or dinner. A Filipino meal cannot be complete without it, even in the midst of huge gatherings and despite the sumptuous menu. Even when it comes to merienda or snacks, rice is the staple food of the Philippines. Rice (Oryza sativa) is also the most important staple food for the majority of the world' s human...
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The first person known to plant rice in the south east of Australia was a merchant named Jo Takasuka who had previously been a parliamentarian in Japan. In 1906 he sowed 35 acres worth of rice on land rented from a man in Nyah, on the Murray River. In the beginning he struggled to produce commercial crop, however in 1914 the government of Victoria gave him 200 acres of land to produce more crop and continue his enterprise. In a...
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There are a lot of issues and controversies that our country faces right now. Some may be aware, but some are not. Even though I’m only seventeen years old, I could see the reality that the government is concealing from the public. One of the most recent controversies is the rice importation. First of all, why do we need to import rice in our country if our rice supply is sufficient enough? The government tells us that this would help...
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In the Philippines you can’t call a ‘meal’ without rice. Most Filipinos eat three meals a day. Breakfast, lunch and dinner with the presence of rice. But what would happen if the country did not provide its citizens with enough rice to eat? As the population of the Philippines is increasing, the amount of rice grown by local farmers is becoming insufficient for the total population of our country. According to the Department of Trade and Industry, the Philippines is...
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Rice is enriched with calories, protein which is required for sustenance and a good port of vitamins. It is the member of a family of plants that includes grass, marijuana and bamboo. There are almost 120,000 varieties of rice and their plants can grow 10 ft. high and shoot up to 8 inches in a day. Rice is the main crop in Japan which is being cultivated for more than 3000 years and has been mandatory in Japanese diet. Many...
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Rice is the seed of specific species of grass. If it’s Asian rice it comes from Oryza sativa and if it’s African rice it comes from Oryza glaberrima. It’s a cereal grain that is among the most widely consumed foods for a large portion of the world’s population, this is especially true in Asia. As a commodity, it has the third-highest production numbers worldwide after sugarcane and maize. India is the world’s largest exporter of this crop, and it’s also...
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Rice cultivation is an interesting matter that happened many years ago and until this day, we still talk about it. Jo Takasuka was the creator of it. Sadly, he passed away in 1940 living for 75 years he was born in 1865. He was Japanese man that lived in Matsuyama and he ended his rice cultivation business in 1927. In 1906, rice cultivation had launched. Chinese miners helped by bringing the rice seeds over to Western Australia in the 1850’s....
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Organisms that have altered genomes in them are known as transgenics. A transgenic is essentially when an organism has been altered through the injection of another animal’s genes. Transgenics are generated in a laboratory either for commercial or research purposes and are created through the process of recombinant DNA where one gene is taken from organism and put with another to create a new organism. Golden rice is an example of a transgenic organisms and specifically, genetically modified organism (GMO)....
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This is an argumentative research essay. The topic that I have chosen to write about is genetically modified organisms vs. non-genetically modified organisms. It has been big debate for many years in this country. I have done a couple of different since experiments in the past that tie into this topic. There are many different pros and cons to each of these topics. Out of all the food that is possible in the world, I believe that the food grown...
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The rice tariffication law, or RTL, is a law that was signed by Philippine President Rodrigo Roa Duterte in February 2019. It is said that the law would lower the tariff of the imported goods produced by foreign investors so that they would be able to import their goods at a lower price which would result to a lower marketing price. This law is made to help with regards to the shortage of rice which is why the tariff is...
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The first known time that rice was planted in Australia was in 1906. It was planted in the south-eastern part of Australia and was planted by Jo Takasuka. Jo Takasuka was an import/export merchant who was previously in the Japanese parliament.in the same year of the plantation of rice he sowed a total 35 acres of rice on flood-prone land that he rented from a farmer named Nyah. This flood-prone land was on the Murray River. Rice first came to...
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In the year 1906 the first person to ever plant rice in the south-eastern Australia was Jo Takasuka who was a merchant. Still in 1906, Jo Takasuka planted 35 acres of rice on the land that he had rented from a farmer on the Murray River. The farming of rice was an economic decision because there was no law against growing it. Meaning that anyone could grow rice whenever and where ever they wanted. Most plantations of rice are found...
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