GMOs

Food Corporations Fight GMO Labeling Measure With Big Money


- Food and chemical companies are puting millions of dollars into efforts to block approval of a ballot initiative in Washington state that would make it the first in the United States to require labeling of foods containing genetically modified crops.

-Voters will have to decide whether many common grocery items containing ingredients from genetically altered crops should be labeled as such.


-Supporters of the labeling say that  labeling foods made from genetically modified organisms (GMO) would provide information for consumers to make informed shopping choices.

-The Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA), which represents more than 300 food and beverage companies, has put roughly $11 million into fighting the measure, or roughly half of the nearly $22 million raised by opponents of labeling, and that is more than what supports of labeling made, which was 6.8 million made.

A State Attorney General named Bob Ferguson said in a lawsuit filed Oct. 16 that the GMA illegally collected and spent more than $7 million while shielding the identity of its contributors.

The GMA spokesman, Brian Kennedy, stated "It would require tens of thousands of common food and beverage products to be relabeled exclusively for Washington state unless they are remade with higher-priced, specially developed ingredients," "The measure will increase grocery costs for a typical Washington family by hundreds of dollars per year."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/29/food-giants-pour-millions_n_4175592.html

February 3,2016

                                                               History of Victorian Era

- The Victorian era was a time of prosperity, broad imperial expansion, and great political reform. It was also a time, what we associate now is, "prudishness" and "repression". With no doubt, it was an extraordinarily complex age, that has sometimes been called the Second English Renaissance. It is, however, also the beginning of Modern Times.

- The social classes of England were newly reforming. There was a change of the old hierarchical order, and the middle classes were steadily growing.The upper classes' composition was changing from simply hereditary aristocracy to a combination of nobility and an emerging wealthy commercial class. 

-The Victorian Era was a time of scientific progress and ideas. Darwin took his Voyage of the Beagle, and created the Theory of Evolution. The Great Exhibition of 1851 took place in London. The strides in medicine and the physical sciences continued throughout the century. The thought associated with modern psychiatry began with men like Sigmund Feud toward the end of the era, and radical economic theory, developed by Karl Marx and his associates, began a second age of revolution in mid-century. The ideas of Marxism, socialism, feminism churned along with all else that happened during the era.

- For clothes that was worn during the time period, women wore corsets, balloonish sleeves and crinolines in the middle 1840's. The crinoline became popular and expanded during the 50's to 70's, until, it gave way to the bustle became popular as well. The bustle stayed popular in 1890's, and became much smaller, until it started to disapate out altogether by the dawning of the twentieth century. For men, stove-pipe pants were the fashion at the beginning of the century. Their ties, known then as cravats, change the styles of shirts, jackets, and hats. Throughout the century, it was stylish for men to wear facial hair of all sizes and descriptions. The mustaches, mutton-chop sideburns, Piccadilly Weepers, full beards, and Van Dykes were the more fashion sense at the time.

Post 7

From the poem "The World Is Too Much With Us", I believe that the message is telling how we spend so much time on the things we have and the power we are able to control that we blindingly looking away from the beautiful nature and planet that we live on. We care way to much on the new technologies that comes out than what nature has in store for us - which meaning its beauty. That is what the message is trying to portray in the poem.

Post #6

I think that F. Scott Fitzgerald named the novel "The Great Gatsby" because he wanted to tell about how the American Dream can come true but at a cost of changing their self for the worse. Based on the Gatsby, He came from nothing to working his way up to become something. The dream that Gatsby fought for was to be wealthy enough to win Daisy over when he comes back from the war. When Gatsby was able to make his dream come true, he was still not able to win Daisy over, reasons which Gatsby can't win her is that she is married to Tom that has a good social standard and is in old money, the other reason is that she has changed from the person that she used to be when she was with Gatsby before the war. You can know how she changed when Gatsby was killed and Tom and Daisy move away without telling no one, when Nick was able to speak to Tom in New York City, Nick came to the conclusion that Tom and Daisy is careless and uncaring people, Knowing this, when your dream that you fight for come true there will be times when you will start to change.

post 5

Dear Journal,

Today has been quite a ride, a "long" ride, I never knew something like this could have happen today. I feel so agitated, scared for Daisy for which she may be in trouble for any law enforcement of the sorts and for if Tom would feel about what Daisy has done Myrtle, from me worrying about Daisy so much I sent Nick to go and check up on her to see if she will be alright and I'll stay there and keep a watch out just encase of any danger that might come Tom or anybody else that wants to hurt Daisy.

post 4

a. His name is Jay Gatsby, he changed it to James Gatz. His parents was shiftless and unsuccessful farm people. He went to a small Lutheran college named St. Olaf and worked as a janitor there for two months then drifted back to Lake Superior.He worked many jobs for Dan Cody for 5 years, later Gatsby was supposed to inherit 25,000 but he was never able to get it.

b. There was more negative things said about him then the ones now, for example someone said that he had killed someone before.

c. I believe that Jay Gatsby is more wild and would do anything to get money and reputation in parties, for James Gatz, he is more calm and thinks about how his future is going to be later down in his life.

d. Tom dislikes the way Gatsby handles himself socially and reasoning of why Daisy is always visiting him .

Post 3

Chester Beckers - fake
Bunsen -  full name: Robert Bunsen, he is real but not alive during the time period of the story.
Stonewall Jackson Abrams - fake but name was taken from the confederate general  in the civil war.
Cecil Roebuck - real, connected to Alvah Roebuck who is the founder of Sears
Willie Voltaires - fake but name was taken from Voltaires - a French Enlightener, actually named Francoise Arouet.
O.R.P. Schraeder - person maybe fake but last name is from a German Immgrant named August Schrader.


Leeches - fake and also their last name would consider to be animal name.
S.B. Whitebait - fake and also their last name would consider to be animal name.
Edgar Beaver - fake and also their last name would consider to be animal name
Dr. Webster Civet - fake and also their last name would consider to be animal name.

Horbeams - fake and also their last names would consider to be plant name.
Newton Orchid - fake and also their last names would consider to be plant name.
Clarence Endive - fake and also their last names would consider to be plant name.