APES in a Box: Integrated Pest Management
Integrated Pest Management: o An approach to pest management involving biological control, cultivation techniques, and minimal use of synthetic pesticides, which reduces pest population to an economically tolerable level Pest and crop = ecological system o Reduce not lose all of the pest population IPM strategies o Crop rotation o Introducing predators of pest population o Using pest resistant crop varieties o Intercropping o Altering planting times Advantages o Reduce environmental and health problems Disadvantages o Farmers and landowners will get more educated o Does not affect the pest immediately o Pest population will not be completely irradiated o Cost more o May work in some situations and not others
APES in a Box: Biological Pest Control
Biological Pest Control: an alternative usage of pesticides o Using a predator of the pest to control a pest species o Microorganisms, plants, and animals o Using chemicals from living organisms Advantages: o No negative environmental impacts associated with pesticide use Disadvantages: o Potential for non-target species to be impacted by the introduced control species o Disruption of native food chains by the introduced species o Unwanted proliferation of introduced species o Complete eradication of pest population o Cost a lot
Michael Pollan (video one)
Monoculture: eliminating all species except one Needs a lot of other factors to support (factors includes pesticides, food) Exhausts the soil -> taking all nutrients without giving anything back Logic of nature > logic of economy Causing organisms to be more vulnerable to diseases Solution = to cease organisms to be exposed to monoculture
Michael Pollan (video two)
People are subsidizing food that contains high contents of corn syrup Carrots should be subsidized instead of all that junky food
Michael Pollan (video three)
All food came from solar energy collected by plants that is then transferred to humans or other organisms that gets eaten by humans System that is feeding you = food chain There is always a biological side in the food chain -> biological industry biological Best food chain: biology all the way
