Purpose

This blog will detail a ten week engineering design project assessing the advantages and disadvantages financially, environmentally, and qualitatively of the production of GMO products versus non-GMO products. The ultimate goal of the project is to draft a written policy memo addressed to a Pennsylvania farm as well as the U.S. Department of Agriculture outlining a plan of action to improve and optimize GMO and non-GMO production.

Helpful Links

[1] GMOs in animal agriculture: time to consider both costs and benefits in regulatory evaluations
From the Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology
http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?p=AONE&u=drexel_main&id=GALE|A348467503&v=2.1&it=r&sid=summon&userGroup=drexel_main&authCount=1

[2] Life Cycle-Based Sustainability Indicators for Assessment of the U.S. Food System
From the University of Michigan
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.194.9814&rep=rep1&type=pdf

[3] Agricultural Finance Review
From Cornell University
http://usda.mannlib.cornell.edu/usda/ers/AFR/1990s/1999/AFR-05-14-1999.pdf

[4] Developing Life Cycle Assessment tools for GMO crops under present and future climate circumstances
http://www.qsa.man.dtu.dk/Research/PhD-projects/LCA-of-GMO-crops


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