Fission is the process in which heavy nucleus divides to form smaller nuclei of intermediate mass and one or more neutrons. In the fission process, bond energy is released and this becomes as the kinetic energy of the fission products generated and that of the neutrons being released, and then the kinetic energy turns into heat energy. ... Allen's Creek Nuclear Power Plant, Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant, South Texas Nuclear Generating Station, and Victoria County Station are Nuclear power plants in Texas. ... This plant was canceled in 1982. ... And another awful reason is, the impo...

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The Meat Inspection Act brought the following reforms to the processing of cattle, sheep, horses, swine and goats destined for human consumption: • All animals were required to pass an inspection by the U.S. Drug Administration prior to slaughter • All carcasses were subject to a post-mortem inspection • Cleanliness standards established for slaughterhouses and processing plants A key influence on President Roosevelt was the book The Jungle written by "mukeracker" Upton Sinclair. In this book Sinclair wrote about the dangerous working conditions, filthy processing plant...

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Even after being processed none of the original parts simply "disappear"; Meaning: The feces, bile, and hair are probably in every other cut of meat. ... The IBP plant was documented by an FDA inspector to have oil dripping into its hams from a misplaced pipe. ... Later IBP plant released a report saying that the oil was dripped on "unfinished hams" and that IBP is considered by many to have one of the cleanest plants in the country! ... The IBP plant was documented by an FDA inspector to have oil dripping into its hams from a misplaced pipe. ... Later IBP plant released a report sayin...

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Meat Industry The new U.S. meat industry of food retailers, meat processors, and farms and ranches coalesce into fewer and larger businesses are emerging. ... With this new structure the number of meat processing firms has dwindled rapidly, boosting the market share held by the industry's largest players while the number of slaughter plants have plunged. Food demand and technology are the two forces of the meat industry's transformation to a more compact structure. ... With increased consumption from poultry profit margins in the beef and pork processing industries tightened. Me...

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"# The meat packing industry took no responsibility for producing safe and sanitary meat. ... "# This obviously led to tubercular meat being processed in the packing house. Another problem was the incredible lack of sanitation and the use of spoiled meat, another quote from "The Jungle" tells of how dirty it was in these plants "There would be meat stored in great piles in rooms; and water from leaky roofs would drip over it, and thousands of rats would race about on it. ... "# The meat packers ignored the publics right to safe, clean meat. ... The Meat inspection Act of 1906 set ru...

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However, meat intake should be restricted as research shown that meat, especially processed meat, are a risk factor of cancer and cardiovascular disease. Meat are identified as the richest source of proteins. ... Meat is a major dietary source of vitamin B12. ... As meat consumption is necessitate for good health, a meat demanding diet has recognized to use up many more natural resource that plants diet. ... Yet, moderate intake and avoidance of processed meat is recommended as it can cause diseases....

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Vegetarian VS Meat Everyday most of the world's population eats meat products, while small percentage have chosen different life style by being vegetarian. ... The burning of forests also causes extinction of animals and plants. 3) The cancer argument against meat-eating: The consumption of meat also has various cancer risks such as breast cancer, fatal ovarian cancer, or fatal prostate cancer. ... "Of all the antibiotics used in US 50 % are used on livestock" (Robbins3). 7) The pesticide argument against meat-eating: Most meat-eaters are unaware of the fact that meat contains ...

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The worst part of this is that factory farms aren't required to process waste at sewage treatment facilities. ... The worst part is that factory farms aren't required to process waste at sewage treatment facilities (Socially). ... These antibiotics and artificial growth hormones contaminate our waterways and seriously harm the plants and animals that live in them. ... Industrialized farming is a global industry, meaning that animals may be raised in one country, processed in another, then shipped to another country to be sold. ... There is no denying that factory farming allows u...

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There are three distinct processed poultry meat products produced by the industry. ... Processed poultry meats have emerged as a low-fat alternative substitute for red meats. ... The industry is also prone to high rate of injuries in the processing plants. ... The complexes are example of vertical integration because they are made up of a hatchery, a feed mill, and a processing plant. ... Vertical integration allows for firms to own everything from the feed mill and processing plant to the distribution process and facilities. ...

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Irradiation and Genetically Modified Plants What are genetically modified plants? _________ ___________ plants are plants that contain the genes of other plants or organisms. They are created by the process of genetic engineering, that allows scientists to move ______ ________ between organisms with the goal of changing their characteristics. ... The food does not become __________ as one may think, and treating raw meat and poultry with irradiation at the slaughter plant could eliminate bacteria commonly found on these, such as _________, ___________, and Campylobacter. ...

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Today, a greater percentage of the population eats meat. ... "Although meat-eating has been denied to the human form by God and his sons and daughters of the past, people still adopt the process." ... While those who advocate a meat-oriented diet say that a meat diet is essential for a normal and healthy life, for they provide protein. ... In his Book "Diet for Transcendence", Steven Rosen states from other sources that plants are the sources of protein and that animals are the secondary sources, having consumed such plants. "Plants can synthesize amino acids from air, earth and water, but...

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A Lacto-ovo Vegetarian is a person who decides to eat no meat, poultry or fish, but includes dairy products and eggs in the diet along with plant-based foods. ... Soy protein is a great plant protein. ... One interesting way to look at vegetarianism is to compare facts about meat eaters, plant eaters, and humans. Meat eaters have claws; plant eaters have no claws, and neither do humans. ... Plant eaters and humans do not have sharp pointed teeth. ...

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Meat packers, chemical companies, hide and leather processors, and food processors, such as manufacturers of dairy products use salt and its by-products. ... This process was known as the solar method. ... But, to speed the process of evaporation, the brine is put in enormous iron pans placed over extremely hot fires. ... Plants take in water through their roots. ... Plants get ragged by midsummer and should be removed....

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With the need to produce more and better food more efficiently came Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs), "a process by which scientists manipulate DNA in a way to give a plant or animal a trait that it did not have before" (King 28). With this process, producers are able to increase their yields as well as modify production qualities such as making a plant resistant to pesticides, viruses, or herbicides. ... Sodium Nitrate/Nitrate, commonly found in processed meats such as bacon, hotdogs, and luncheon meat, is known to increase cancer and the risk of heart disease. ... It means av...

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Each year tourists come to this region just to taste the fresh meat (Greer 2002). ... The tasty meat was a staple in their diets, and the colonist soon shared the same craving. ... Much of the sunlight that is necessary for the underwater plants is filtered out and never actually makes it to the plants. ... Creatures that eat plants can not survive because of the lack of nutrient resources. ... Smaller hard crabs may be processed in Maryland, but may not be taken from its waters. ...

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Oddly enough Jurgis finds a job rather quickly from when they arrive in Chicago and starts working at the meat packing plant. ... The meat packing plant is very dark and dangerous. ... The health risks abound inside these plants with the bosses of these plants not worrying at all about his workers. ... The bosses would make the workers work over time without pay to be able to process bad or spoiled meat while the health inspector was gone. ... Sinclair tells how dead rats, droppings, spoiled meat, human body parts, and whatever would fall in would be processed into sausage to be eaten. ...

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In addition, Perdue Farms, Inc. included a wellness program that was conveniently located at several plants, to minimize the absence of employees on a given day. ... To date the company's most significant R&D success is the selective breeding program that is used to increase the size of its chicken breast and that yields whiter meat from its chickens. ... Throughout the company's existence, Perdue has been alleged to have cause pollution to waters that were surrounding its hometown base plant located in Maryland. Although it has not been proven the company thinks that the cause of ...

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Sharks Sharks are becoming an endangered species more and more each day as we keep hunting them for trophies, meat, and other reasons. ... Sharks are not only being fished for their meat but for their fins, skins and organs. It is rumored that sharks provide a enzyme that can help fight cancer, so for that reason thousands of sharks are processed into cartilage pills each year. One cartilage plant in Costa Rica reportedly processes 235,000 sharks a month that is over 2.8 million sharks a year. On a worldwide scale an average of 704,000 tons of shark meat is sold annually each year. ...

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Not only were there dangers at their job but in every section of the plant someone could get injured by a machine or by slipping on the floor. ... Sinclair also wrote about the quality of the meat and how sometimes they would reuse scraps of meat. ... Once this book was published and these supposed truths of the meat-packing plants and the fraud that was occurring in the came to the attention of the Food and Drug Administration there were new meat-packing laws devised, and quite and uproar with everyone the United States that this could on in a factory. Even though today there are certain re...

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This consisted of meat products, poultry, fish, eggs, milk and cheese. ... In 1913, we ate 40 lbs. of processed sugar per year. ... I've spent 25 years of my life ingesting meat daily, with every meal. ... The processed foods we are eating have become much more calorie dense than the whole plants that they are made from. ... There is also healthy meat alternatives. ...

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Food is any substance, esp. a solid, taken in by a plant or animal to enable it to live a grow. ... These are often called "wrong food" and these type of diet include a lot of animal fat, low fiber, a lot of processed food, poor in fresh vegetables, poor in fruits and also poor in whole grains. There is no evidence that meat causes cancer. However, diets high in red meat may increase the risk of bowel cancer. When red meat is eaten, it should be limited to les than 80 grams per day. ...

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Outside the packing plants, newly arrived immigrants men and women desperate for jobs offered to work for even lower wages. ... The packing plants were dangerous places--sites of accidents and sources of all kinds of diseases from pneumonia and blood poisoning to deadly tuberculosis. ... To survive, workers in the meat-packing plants were forced to take part in a horrendous fraud, one that affected nearly every American. ... On a number of occasions In the process to obtain profits, the dedicated worker that contributed many years of his life and talent to building the company is discard. ... ...

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Cows are fed a diet of dead chickens, corn or sometimes even cow meat to increase their body weight so more meat can be obtained from them. ... Coli that are the cause of so many meat recalls and the death of many children and adults. ... The corn produced in the US is genetically modified (70 percent) and it's added in clever ways to each and every processed food in the supermarket. ... The third problem we saw is the control and regulation of the meat processing plants. The plants practice such unhygienic ways and the animals could be ill or have any disease they are still processed. ...

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Organic compounds also make up enzymes and catalysts that are mandatory for essential biological processes to occur. ... Failure of ion transport may result in the failure of an important biological process in the body. ... Agricultural and food chemistry uses both organic and analytical methods to continually develop new research regarding plant toxins, contaminates and additives, amino acids, foreign material, pesticide residue, etc. Imported and exported meat is tested for anabolic steroids while pesticide residues are measured in soils and water. The synthesis of metabolites and other s...

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The 1890 Food Inspection Act came from these restrictions to prevent and detect bad meat imports as we as poor quality meat in the U.S. 1905, a book was published that had a major effect on the meat packaging industries. ... Products produced with complicated processing methods mad in mass volumes caused the contamination interests due to pesticides, drugs given to animals and the preservatives. ... The Wholesome Meat Act of 1967 aloud federal laws to require states channel inspections of meat to raise more adequate meat standards. ... In 1972, the Animal and Plant Health Inspections was cr...

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