ENVS 4012 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Integrated Pest Management, Kaolinite, Michael Pollan
14 May 2017
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Assignment 2- analysis of a meal: due: monday, march 27. Try to expand and research things you made yourself (not a can of soup for example), and beverages. Introduction: a brief opening statement, an explanation of what food sustainability means to you/what sustainability is, a brief explanation of what you are going to do in the report. Name and inorganic pesticide: salt made, kaolin clay. What is a systemic pesticide: has to been ingested or taken up by plant. Name the insecticide lined to pollinator decline: neonesticide. Name two ways of controlling pests that do not involve synthetic pesticides: non invasive tilling, biological ways (animals) Using animal for your own benefit and enslaving them. Cows: cows are ruminants (multiple stomachs, 4 compartment stomach, rumination= chewing their cud. Beef: breeds: angus, charolais, hereford, limousin, simmental, there are an average of 63,000 farms and ranches with beef cattle across canada, average number head per beef farm is 61.
