Introduction  Approximately 1.05 billion tonnes of food are wasted each year globally. The food that people are wasting does not go away, but instead is being dumped and sitting in landfills. That food is rotting and creating problems in the environment. It creates methane, which is a greenhouse gas that is 25 times as strong as carbon dioxide at heating the atmosphere, contributing to global warming. In addition to that, a more scary statistic is that researchers and scientists have found that for every kilogram of food protein wasted, 15 to 750 kilograms of CO₂ are emitted into the environment […]

Figure 1: Vertical Farming Facility Audio Blog Overview: Introduction: In 2050, the world population will be around 10 billion, which is 1.8 billion higher than today. Currently, the world struggles to face the issues of overpopulation, which, as a result, has led to food insecurity, homelessness, and rising climate problems. Furthermore, Figure 2, a 2023 pie chart provides more detail on the idea, stating that roughly 9% of families with kids struggle with food insecurity. In fact, when 47 million Americans struggle with food insecurity and they “don’t have the access to an adequate supply of nutrients,” it’s clear that […]

Regenerative farming is often portrayed as an idealistic alternative to conventional agriculture. However, it has major scientific, economic, and social foundations that make it a realistic and scalable path toward global food security, provided it receives sufficient investment, policy support, and innovation. Regenerative agriculture seeks to rebuild soil health, increase biodiversity, and reduce reliance on synthetic inputs like fertilizers. This method of farming creates a more resilient and sustainable food system. Some critics argue that yields may decline or that scaling such systems is impractical. Yet these objections overlook the major inefficiencies in modern agriculture and the potential that regenerative […]

Introduction Every year, more than 70 billion animals will never feel the warmth of the sun or the taste of fresh grass. This is all due to the confinement of factory farming. Factory farming is used to increase profit while decreasing production costs. This is due to inhumane conditions in which significant numbers of cows, chickens, and pigs are raised in minuscule spaces, where they are most of the time unable even to take a step out of their confinement. These animals are unable to engage in normal animal behaviors and are essentially being raised for food. However, this extends […]

Understanding the Mechanics of Microplastics If you’re ever analyzing where the plastic you get rid of goes, you will find that it may never completely depart from you. Instead, you will come to realize your coexistence with microplastics–tiny, unseeable specks that pose detrimental harm to both human, wildlife, and environmental health. In fact, most Americans have enough microplastics in their brain to construct a plastic spoon. Urgently, we cannot dismiss the action we need to take to prevent these invisible invaders’ worsening consequences. The leftover plastic from production is often common in our society, with “The total plastic waste landfilled […]

Something in our world is unseen by the eye but is in every human alive. It is a toxin slowly killing and damaging all of us, the name of this something is PFAS chemicals. PFAS are chemicals produced by industry that are extremely harmful in various ways, from their widespread use in transportation to their bioaccumulative nature in many systems. They are one of the biggest issues affecting countries with developed industries because they have been unregulated and over-generated since the 1940s (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 2024) (ref). So many populations of people are suffering from health incidences that could […]

Abstract: What is Generative AI? The concept of generative artificial intelligence and terms like “AI” have gained an unprecedented level of hype as well as misunderstanding in the past few years; “AI” has become an all-encompassing buzzword to describe complex concepts varying from lengthy analysis of medical data to the generation of memes. But what is it? In a sentence, generative artificial intelligence is the output achieved from complex webs of probability-reliant algorithms called neural networks, designed on the basis of the human brain. When trained with massive amounts of data, these neural networks have the capability to produce human-like […]

Abstract The “Standard American Diet” has been a growing health hazard to human health over the years. Each year, more and more unhealthy ingredients are being added to our everyday foods, while less and less healthy ingredients are present. These added ingredients are putting all Americans’ lives at risk for chronic diseases and decreasing our lifespans (6). Critics of food and diet claim that the SAD is only a small contributing factor to diseases later on in life. I believe that what you put into your body is far more important than genetics or lifestyle, due to the amount of […]

About Me Before I went to college, I had never heard the term “regenerative agriculture” before, and it wasn’t until I came to Bucknell University that my eyes were opened to the potential that regenerative agriculture could have. In my freshman seminar class, we took a tour of the Bucknell Farm. At first I wasn’t very excited about it because I had to walk all the way across campus at eight in the morning, but as the tour concluded, I felt the complete opposite. I felt as if I wanted it to go on forever. While on the tour, Jen, […]

About Me I was in middle school when I first did a project on food coloring. At that age, I adored foods with coloring, as every kid does, even after learning the health risks you take when you ingest them. Every kid dreams of sitting in a room full of bright sugary candy or popular chips. It wasn’t until now, doing similar, but now more advanced research that I realized how prevalent food coloring is in your everyday life. It is sad what our world has come to. The inefficiency in our industries, combined with product scarcity, creates a vicious […]