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Blog #9 - Agriculture

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Read the article Summarize the article in your OWN WORDS Discuss your stance on the main point/topic of the article and why Discuss an aspect of your life that relates to the topic in the article Include at least one relevant picture that you took and a caption Post a link to your blog in the spreadsheet attached 250 words long (about 2-3 paragraphs) During these unprecedented times,  thousands of people have been left without a job or forced to work apart from each other. In our current crisis, the agriculture industry has lost a lot. This part of the industrial world, everyone depends on it. Tens of millions pounds of food are left rotting in the fields while demands from food banks rise by 70%. The dairy industry as made their own estimates and believes that their supply is currently at 10%  greater than any other domestic demands.  The International Dairy Foods Association (TIDFA) say about 5% of the entire country's milk are being dumped. This is true becaus...

Coronavirus, tips on how to keep you and others safe from this contagious and deadly virus

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As we all know, the entire world is in a pandemic. Who started this world-wide pandemic? Actually, no one started this threat to human health. The culprit is the deadly COVID-19 virus, or commonly known as the Coronavirus. The article I read is a couple months old but it is informing the reader what we know now about this world wide killer. Before getting down to what we know, the article does give the reader an insight on what it is in the "about" section. After giving more information to the questions given in the about section like: how did this Coronavirus come to the United States?, Where and how did COVID-19 begin?,  What is a Coronavirus? What is a novel Coronavirus?, etc.  Then it gives tips on how to protect yourself and others around from either being a host or infected with this highly infectious and deadly disease. One tip it gave, which by now everyone is following hopefully, is social distancing. Social Distancing is the practice of staying at least 6 feet aw...

How do wildfires start?

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Alaka'i Hennings February 5,2020 Carreira Period 2 A billion animals caught in Australia's fires; some may go extinct In the article that I read, it is about how wildlife is affected by wildfires. The article especially talks about a rare mammal, the Dunnart, is severally effected by the wildfires in Australia. The Dunnart is already a very rare mammal that is rarely ever been spotted. The only place currently known that Dunnarts still exist was scorched on the 1,7000-square-mile island of Kangaroo Island. These small rat-like mammals are not the only ones that are being severally affected by these wildfires, the millions of insects and plants that help feed the local populations of Australia's wildlife is being affected. The article also states that even though animals like the Koala, Platypus, and Kangaroo's are becoming the symbols of the wildfires victims, they do are not on the edge of extinction. Many species of animals and plants that are found no wher...

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