Water pollution is a problem progressing nationwide. Wildlife, and humans, can be significantly impacted by polluted water. Multiple factors can aggravate fragile ecosystems. Pollutants from waste water treatment plants, colossal urban development, and industry runoffs, are a few, among hundreds of causes of pollution. In the documentary “Poisoned Waters”, Hedrick Smith tries to find an explanation for the pollution of the Chesapeake Bay. He deduces that runoff from chicken farms is destroying the Chesapeake Bay’s wildlife ecosystems. Chicken manure contains nitrogen and phosphorous. Both Nitrogen and phosphorous are leading causes of algae build up, which causes dead zones in the water. Dead zones are areas of water that limited to no oxygen …show more content…
In the theory of an unequal system, Marx preached that society was separated into two groups. The first group was called the bourgeois. This group consisted of wealthy people who controlled business and production. The second group was called the proletariat. These were the people who depended on the bourgeois for survival and employment (Openstax, page 140). The chicken industry is a prime example of this theory in everyday life. In the film “Poisoned Waters”, Smith meets up with a lady, Carole Morison, that formally worked with the Perdue chicken company. Amongst the interview, Morison describes how Perdue made her sign a very detailed contract, stating “they own the chickens. They just drop them off on the farm for us to raise to a marketable age, and then they come and pick up the chickens, take them for processing” (Poisoned Waters). This means that the since the companies only own the chickens themselves, they are not responsible for the chicken’s feces. This ties into the theme of deviance. The big chicken factories get to make up the rules as they go. As a result, they don’t take any responsibility for the chicken poop that can pollute the …show more content…
The control theory states that “social control is directly affected by the strength of social bonds and that deviance results from a feeling of disconnection from society” (Openstax, page 143). Hirschi states that there are four types of bonds that attach people to society. Two include attachment and involvement. As stated earlier, big chicken companies don’t directly work with the chickens. The chickens are sent to a farm and later taken when they are ready to be killed (Poisoned Waters). One significant explanation for the continued deviant act of pollution of the Bay, would be the control theory. Since the chicken companies are not involved in the displacement of the chicken feces, they may not fully understand the consequences of allowing it to be in runoff water. The chicken companies are also not locals in the towns that grow the chickens. They do not see the people they affect from allowing the chicken feces to get into the
Television commercials, print ads, and billboards in the Washington, DC, area are asking residents to connect two things many might find unrelated: lawn care and seafood. In one commercial, a man stuffs a big plateful of grass in his mouth after a voice-over says, “Spring rains carry excess lawn fertilizers through our sewers and rivers and into the Chesapeake Bay, where the blue crab harvest has been extremely low. So skip the fertilizer until fall, because once they’re gone, what’s left to enjoy?”(Environment, p. 7)
One of the Bays biggest resources is its oysters. Oysters are filter feeders which mean they feed on agley and clean the water. The oysters feed on agley and other pollutants in the bay turning them into food, then they condense the food down to nutrients and sometimes developed pearls. Filtering the water helps the oysters to grow, and also helps clean the Chesapeake Bay. One oyster can filter 50 gallons of water a day, Oysters used to be able to filter the Bay in about a week. However, these creatures are now scarce in the bay. The Chesapeake Bays Oyster (crassostrea virginica) Population has declined severely because of over harvesting, agricultural runoff, and disease. Now the Chesapeake Bay is becoming polluted without the oysters and the water is not nearly as clean as it once was. The Chesapeake Bay was the first estuary in the nation to be targeted for restoration as an integrated watershed and ecosystem. (Chesapeake Bay Program n/d). This report will show the cause and effect of the Chesapeake Bay's Oyster decline on the Bay.
Marx believes there is a true human nature, that of a free species being, but our social environment can alienate us from it. To describe this nature, he first describes the class conflict between the bourgeois and the proletariats. Coined by Marx, the bourgeois are “the exploiting and ruling class.”, and the proletariats are “the exploited and oppressed class” (Marx, 207). These two classes are separated because of the machine we call capitalism. Capitalism arises from private property, specialization of labor, wage labor, and inevitably causes competition.
The first step in attempting to make Josephine's chicken and dumplings is procuring the chicken. One of those antiseptic plastic-wrapped carcasses from the supermarket won't do. It has to be a real chicken: a real dog-chased, bug-eating, heavyweight chicken. It takes time, exercise, and weight to produce the right flavor, and a chicken can't get that sitting in a cage eating arsenic. It would be simpler to get one from the supermarket, but it just can't be done. This principal is referred to as"garbage in garbage out" in present day vernacular; the selection of the right hen is the critical input that determines the quality of the output. Grandma always raised a large flock of her own and would select an older "stewing hen", as she called them. They were the larger hens that had been...
When the manure is not handled correctly the nutrients are washed into tributaries of the bay. Often too much manure and fertilizer is applied and the excessive nutrients find their way into the bay. Even when precautions are taken to keep excessive nutrients out of the bay they seep into the groundwater and pollute the
Society as a whole, has an interest in categorizing people and groups. Some of these categories are made of people from different social classes. Certain people are similar in the way they live and the amount of money they make so they become categorized together as a certain group. During the Industrial Revolution Karl Marx provided the idea of the proletariat and the bourgeoisie as different social classes. The bourgeoisie being the owners and the rulers and the proletariat being made of the workers and the laborers. From this idea of different social classes, there
This is an important topic. It affects the overall health of the population surrounding the Chesapeake Bay, as we eat from it quite often and it can be used as a water source. The chemicals being released into the water are from coal-burning factories and runoff, which can be helped, but it’s almost impractical in this day and age to spend the amount of money required to do so without the technology that can guarantee a fix.
One of the Bays biggest resources is its oysters. Oysters are filter feeders which mean they feed on agley and clean the water. The oysters feed on agley and other pollutants in the bay turning them into food for them, then they condense the food down to nutrient and developed things like pearls.Filtering the water also helps the oyster to grow. One oyster can filter 50 gallons of water a day, Oysters used to be able to filter the Bay in about a week. However these creatures are now scarce in the bay. The Chesapeake Bays Oyster (crassostrea virginica) Population has declined severely because of over harvesting, agricultural runoff, and disease. Now the Chesapeake Bay is becoming polluted without the oysters and the water is not nearly as clean as it once was. The Chesapeake Bay was the first estuary in the nation to be targeted for restoration as an integrated watershed and ecosystem. (Chesapeake Bay Program n/d). This report will show the cause and effect of the Chesapeake Bay's Oyster decline on the Bay.
Karl Marx, a German philosopher, saw this inequality growing between what he called "the bourgeoisie" and "the proletariat" classes. The bourgeoisie was the middle/upper class which was growing in due to the industrial revolution, and the proletariats were the working class, the poor. These two classes set themselves apart by many different factors. Marx saw five big problems that set the proletariat and the bourgeoisie aside from each other. These five problems were: The dominance of the bourgeoisie over the proletariat, the ownership of private property, the set-up of the family, the level of education, and their influence in government. Marx, in The Communist Manifesto, exposes these five factors which the bourgeoisie had against the communist, and deals with each one fairly. As for the proletariat class, Marx proposes a different economic system where inequality between social classes would not exist.
Then the documentary tackles Puget Sound. The Duwamish River is the largest hot spot in the nation. In 2001, the Duwamish River was classified as a “Super Fund” site. This is given to a site that will receive federal assistance for clean up. But yet, it may be too late. Puget Sound in contaminated with PCP, lead and mercury. The threat comes from the giant industrial polluters of old and from chemicals in consumers’ face creams, deodorants, prescription medicines and household cleaners that find their way into sewers, storm drains, eventually into America’s waterways and drinking water.
Heal The Bay is an environmental nonprofit that releases an annual beach scorecard detailing water pollution levels at beaches across the state. The elevated bacteria levels found at Cowell can be harmful to anyone who enters the water for recreation (Santa Cruz Surfrider 2018). Efforts to identify and eliminate sources of this pollution have made some progress. The City created a task force in 2015 to try and deal with the issue. Nets have been installed under the Wharf to prevent bird droppings from contaminating the water (York 2017).
Species such as the blue crab, oyster, and atlantic menhaden are three main commercial fishing outputs in the Chesapeake bay, but the recent algae blooms are devastating the harvest numbers of several different species. According to the oyster company of Virginia, over 20 million bushels of oysters were harvested every year during the peak of the oyster rush of the mid 1880’s. These numbers
In the 1970s, the top five beef-packers controlled only about 25% of the market, yet today, the top four control more than 80% of the market (Dir. Kenner). In the documentary, a Perdue chicken farmer, Carole Morison, showcased what goes on in Perdue farms. The chickens that Morison took care of were overfed antibiotics and overcrowded in their chicken houses. Although the interview could have gotten Morison into legal trouble with Perdue, she figured that the situation in which the chickens were living in where inhumane and unethical. Later, Morison had to sell her family farm because she did not want to abide by the rules of Perdue, which were to have completely enclosed chicken houses.
...stic breaks down into smaller bits that are not as easy to spot. These small pieces are then consumed by the oceans small organisms that are also the bottom of the oceans food chain. Once it enters the ocean food chain, plastic and its toxins can then be transferred to humans through the ingestion of seafood. The Midway Islands in the Pacific Ocean are home to many different bird species including the world’s largest number of albatrosses. Plastic items and waste materials are washed onto shore and mistaken by the birds as food. A wildlife manager by the name of Matt Brown cut open a dead albatross and found the contents of its stomach to have a large amount of plastic items including a part of a toothbrush, a bottle cap, and pieces of an old fishing net. Brown agrees with most scientists that it is going to take effort from society as a whole to fix this issue.
In the Communist Manifesto it is very clear that Marx is concerned with the organization of society. He sees that the majority individuals in society, the proletariat, live in sub-standard living conditions while the minority of society, the bourgeoisie, have all that life has to offer. However, his most acute observation was that the bourgeoisie control the means of production that separate the two classes (Marx #11 p. 250). Marx notes that this is not just a recent development rather a historical process between the two classes and the individuals that compose it. “It [the bourgeois] has but established new classes, new conditions of oppression, and new forms of struggle in place of the old ones. Our epoch, the epoch of the bourgeoisie, possesses, however, this distinctive feature: it has simplified the class antagonisms. Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps, into two great classes directly facing each other: Bourgeoisie ...