Issues in Animal Science
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Those with money and satisfied choices dictating food options for those with neither
Gentrification
How many % of the population (adults) believe chocolate milk comes from brown cows
7%
How many Americans live in food insecurity
10.5% or 13.7 million
Less than ___ of the population produces the food for the other ___
2%, 98%
The average American is more than ______________ removed from a family farm
three generations
IARC
International Agency for Research of Cancer
Type 1 carcinogen
• tanning • smoked fish • margarita • sun • birth control
T/F Everything we do has inherit risk
True
T/F Humans are terrible at doing a risk assessment
True
Note: Relative risk tells nothing about actual risk
Salmon only grow when the water is _____
warmer
Benefit of growth hormone in salmon
• faster growth means less labor • higher feed conversion • no difference in nutritional content • reduces pressures on wild-caught salmon
Possible solutions to limit the risk of these salmon escape into the wild
locate in warm waters or salt water redundant contaient