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> ## Farming
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>> Problems
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>> - ask ms lagis
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>> 1. Loss of Farmland in Ontario
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>> - Description
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>> - urban expanision is taking farmland away
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>> - Advantages/Attempts
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>> - Greenbelt act and GTA growth plan will protect farmland in Southern Ontario
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>> - Disadvantages/Next Steps
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>> - Protect forms or else Cnadaians will have a food crisis, where we run out of agricultural products
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>> - Solutions
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>> - Create "smart" communities
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>> - Densely packed fmarland, using up less space
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>> 2. Decline of the Family Farm and Growth of Agribusiness
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>> - Description
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>> - Less family farms, more agribusiness (large companies)
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>> - Better technology and smaller farms
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>> - Advantages/Attempts
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>> - More food produced faster
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>> - Less soil erosion
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>> - Disadvantages/Next Steps
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>> - Pollution
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>> - Broken realtionship between farmer and machine
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>> - More GMOs
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>> - Solution
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>> - Support more sustainable farmers
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>> - Be aware
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>> - Use corporate farms with family farm methods
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>> 3. Sustainable Agriculture
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>> - Description
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>> - Unsustainable agriculutre damages environment too much
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>> - manure leakage
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>> - Chemicals
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>> - Soil pollution
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>> - Advantages/Attempts
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>> - Less damage to environment
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>> - Less air, water, and soil production
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>> - Fewer diseases and chemicals
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>> - Disadvantages/Next steps
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>> - Chemical leakage in soil
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>> - Contributes to global warming and GHGs
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>> - Water, air and soil contamination
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>> - Solutions
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>> - Have livestock facilities
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>> - Nutrients management
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>> - Be energy efficient
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>> 4. Organic Farming
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>> - Description
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>> - Organic foods are being replaced by chemicals, fertilizers, antibiotics, animal cloning, and genetic modification
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>> - Advantages/Attempts
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>> - Many people want to buy organic food productsfree of chemicals pesticides
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>> - People like to try new products
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>> - Some like to ensure products taste, concerns for the environment, and GMO prevention in foods
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>> - Disadvantage/Next Steps
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>> - Expensive
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>> - Labour-costly
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>> - Skills are needed
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>> - needs time to grow crops or livestoc naturally
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>> - Solutions
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>> - Organic farming may increase in the future becuase people may see good in it
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>> - May be just a trend
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>> - May decrease due to the fact that it may be expensive and technology may be increasing
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>> 5. Mad Cow Disease (BSE)
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>> - Description
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>> - Neurological disease
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>> - Creates microscopic holes in the brain of affected cattle
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>> - Gives brain spongy apperanace
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>> - Spread by cattle feed from dead cows
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>> - Disadvantages
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>> - Could heavily affect world trade due to infected meat
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>> - Solutions
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>> - Canada accepts beeef from places that can consider and control BSE
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>> - CFIA (Canadian Food Inspection Agency) banned the use of protein products from cattle, including brain, animal feed and fertilizers
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>> 6. GMOs (Genetically Modified Organisms)
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>> - Description
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>> - Impacts the environment
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>> -
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>> ### ```Intensive``` v.s ```Extensive```
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>>>|Type|Definition|
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>>>|```Intensize```|```Large amounts``` of ```labour, machinery and fertilizers``` used on ```small``` farms. ```High yields``` per hectare
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>>>|```Extensive```|```Small amounts``` of ```labour, machinery, and fertilizers used on ```large``` farms. ```Small yeilds``` per hectare
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>>>|```Intensize```|```Large amounts``` of ```labour, machinery and fertilizers``` used on ```small``` farms. ```High yields``` per hectare|
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>>>|```Extensive```|```Small amounts``` of ```labour, machinery, and fertilizers used on ```large``` farms. ```Small yeilds``` per hectare|
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> ## Forestry
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>> Problems
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