AG 401 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Soil Fertility, Veganism, Metacognition
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Part 1: list, in bullet point fashion, your top 12 take-aways (knowledge that you gained) from reading chapters 2 & 3 & 4. See the assignment instructions for examples of appropriate take-aways and instructions on writing take-aways for three chapters. There must be a trade-off when testing pesticides on animals. If we don"t test on animals, the pesticides will cause harm to humans. Pesticides decrease the costs of food and provide to be more economical. If we raise prices of healthy foods, many health problems will arise in humans like cancer. This is why we test pesticides on lab animals and try to reduce the overall harm to them. The benefits of pesticides are that they protect crops from damage by insects, weeds, and pathogens. These benefits allow farmers to produce larger quantities of food using the same amount of inputs they would put in.
