The industrial food market has grown rapidly over the past 100 years. Today our country produces a wide variety of factory-processed meats, sauces, vegetables and fluids. Cloning cattle is widely considered a moral way of prolonging quality beef stock and vegetables are regularly genetically married to create more insect resistant and durable strains.

Water flows in a cycle from rivers into the ocean where it evaporates into the sky and falls as rain and snow to supply our rivers.

In the 1930s, scientists developed synthetic organic chemicals to combat farm pests. (‘Synthetic’ here means made by humans – not naturally occurring, while ‘organic’ means containing carbon, not the popular use as in “organic farming”.) DDT, known as “Deet,” a widely used insect repellant, was scientist Paul Muller’s Nobel Prize winning discovery.