Defense Of Plant Based Meat

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In this scenario, you will be working as a scientific expert in the public relations office of AwesomePlantMeat, Inc. The CFO came in to your office and said that you have lost 25% of your orders this month due to a smear campaign being put on by a Meat company competitor.

A public relations guy for MeatCompany, Inc. has been making the rounds on Fox News, MSNBC, and CNN talking about a recent research paper that was published. He has been pushing the idea that plant based meats are not as healthy and environmentally beneficial as we once thought.

You will want to read the paper that he is basing his argument on.

Then read this synopsis of his interview:

The meat industry has been inappropriately maligned over the past few years. So it was nice to see the authors Gorrison and Wiltard put out their research showing how plant based meat is no better for you or the environment than real meat.

If you want to gain muscle mass or maintain your muscle mass as you age then the only way to do it is by taking in proteins from meat. It is that plain and simple. When you look at the people of the entire planet, those who do not eat as much animal protein just don’t create as much muscle as we do in America. There is just no way of getting the adequate amino acids that your body needs by only eating plants. They even showed that no plant source of protein out there can get you all the essential amino acids that you need to survive. Is decreasing your use of animal products really worth your health? These fine scientists said that you cannot maintain your health without getting these amino acids from meat products.  The researchers even showed that harvesting plants creates just as much carbon dioxide as raising animals! So eating all those different plant proteins create no less greenhouse gas than eating beef or pork.

There are companies out there that are trying to confuse consumers by saying that fake meat is just as good for you as real meat. I caution the listeners to do their research. Even if they create different blends there is no blend that will get you the same ratios of the amino acids that you need to build muscle mass. It is so nice that these researchers showed that meat proteins like the ones that we create are the best way of getting protein in your diet.

You are to read the article, read the synopsis, then write a response to his position. You should point out where he is wrong, how he is misleading the public, and correct the record so your plant-based meat company doesn’t lose additional market share that they have worked so hard to gain.

Your response needs to clarify or refute at least 5 points that he made in his news clip. Not all of the points he makes are wrong, just some may be incomplete or misleading. Each point that you refute needs to be supported.

Improving the Health of the Poor in Mexico

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Improving the Health of the Poor in Mexico

 

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Improving the Health of the Poor in Mexico

Introduction

Individual hygiene is defined as a state of physical, mental, and social well-being. Participation in a wide range of activities, including school and employment, is contingent on good health. Reaffirmation to people with disabilities right to receive the best possible health care without discrimination should also be enhanced. A variety of things determines the health state of a person. Among these determinants are individual features, living and working arrangements, general socio-economic, cultural, environmental variables, and healthcare access (Okonkwo et al., 2021). Many people with impairments have poorer socioeconomic results than people without disabilities, according to research. People with disabilities, according to Okonkwo et al. (2021), have more excellent poverty rates, poorer employment rates, and less education. In comparison to people with impairments, they also have unequal access to health care services and unmet health care needs. This chapter focuses on how Mexico’s health systems may be improved for the poor.

Factors Contributing to Health of the Poor in Mexico

Health is high on the world agenda regarding impoverished people’s healthcare, becoming a major development issue. According to Aceves (2021), the impoverished in Mexico have poorer health and die younger. The impoverished in Mexico suffer from more child and maternal mortality rates, higher levels of sickness, and less access to health care and social protection than the general population. In addition, poor women and girls’ health is harmed by gender inequality. For poor people in Mexico, health is a critical economic advantage because their livelihoods are dependent on it. When a poor person becomes ill, the entire family might become locked in a cycle of lost income and expensive healthcare bills. Investing in health is widely regarded as a critical component of economic development and a requirement for developing countries, particularly disadvantaged people, to break the poverty cycle. Health improves labor productivity, educational achievement, and investment and makes the demographic shift easier. Mexico’s impoverished people’s health should be improved through displaying political commitment to alleviate poverty and fulfill the Millennium Development Goals connected to health. Additional domestic resources for health should be mobilized through budget reallocations and HIPC repayment savings. Mexico’s government should increase the efficiency of healthcare spending.

Through policymaking, regulation, acquisition, and supply of services, the Mexican government should enhance financial systems in the health sector to increase openness and accountability in Mexico. Mexico’s health sector should provide Accessible, inexpensive, and responsive quality health services for poor Mexico’s health sectors. Mexico’s healthcare sectors should improve their health-financing systems to ensure that the poor have fair access to healthcare services. Decentralization and increased local capacity to deliver services will help to support health policy. Mexico’s health sector needs to ensure meaningful community participation and build relationships with the commercial sector and NGOs to offer health services.

The Consequences of Mitigation Poor Health in Mexico

The health sectors in Mexico should promote better awareness of the role of health in poor growth and development. Encourage discussion on health and other policies that support a flawed health approach. Strengthen capacity for the ministry of health’s fundamental tasks to be carried out. The identification of disease trends and the requirements of poor people and vulnerable groups in health care. Mexico’s healthcare system should be improved to make health systems, including financing, more accessible to the poor, support capacity in social impact analysis. Assist civil society organizations and community leaders in becoming more involved in health policy and programs decisions. The Mexican government should support methods to improve service delivery, such as better public services and private-sector partnerships to expand coverage (Aceves, 2021). Mexico’s health sectors should contribute to a clearer understanding of how sector policies, such as education, nutrition, water, and sanitation, might affect health. Developing and implementing the Poverty Reduction Strategy and health-sector activities encourages more great country leadership and ownership. Work on establishing standard procedures for delivering and evaluating services. Lead, own, and implement a comprehensive healthcare initiative that is integrated into the Poverty Reduction Strategy.

Finally, Mexico’s health sectors should improve the public sector’s ability to perform the critical functions of policymakers, regulators, purchasers, and suppliers of health services, which are critical to the construction and implementation of inadequate health systems. To track resource utilization and optimize human resource strategies, institutional solid and organizational competence is required. To focus on malaria, tuberculosis, and HIV/AIDS, which afflict Mexico’s impoverished population, developing high-quality public and private-sector services responsive to poor people’s health needs and demands is a priority. Mexico as a country should strive to employ new knowledge and technology to improve the health of the poor. The setting in which new knowledge and technology are applied varies dramatically. Leaders in Mexico’s government should begin developing a national strategy for improving health care for the poor. Some of the measures that should be improved to maintain health care among Mexico’s poor society include collecting data and analyzing patient outcomes, setting goals and committing to ongoing evaluation, improving access to care, focusing on patient engagement, connecting and collaborating with other organizations.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

References

Aceves, B., Ruiz, M., Ingram, M., Denman, C., Garcia, D. O., Madhivanan, P., & Rosales, C. (2021). Mental health and diabetes self-management: assessing stakeholder perspectives from health centers in Northern Mexico. BMC Health Services Research, 21(1), 1-8.

Okonkwo, N. E., Aguwa, U. T., Jang, M., Barré, I. A., Page, K. R., Sullivan, P. S., … & Baral, S. (2021). COVID-19 and the US response: accelerating health inequities. BMJ evidence-based medicine, 26(4), 176-179.

Dragon Genetics Question

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Dragon Genetics Questions: Competency 8 Performance Assessment

Part 1: Intro and Rules Questions

  • What rule governs inheritance of the fancy tail?
  • What allele combinations yield a fancy tail?
  • How are wings inherited?
  • What allele combinations yield wings?
  • What rule governs inheritance of horns?
  • How are legs inherited?
  • What rule governs fire breathing?
  • Explain your answer to the fire-breathing question.
  • What type of trait is color?
  • Explain how color is determined in dragons.

Part 2: Meiosis Questions

  • Can the father dragon provide the required alleles to have a winged, legless dragon child?
  • Can the mother dragon provide the required alleles to have a winged, legless dragon child?
  • Complete the crossing over exercise and take a screenshot of your results (not a virtual lab notebook snapshot). Paste your screenshot into a Word document (make it very large so I can see it) and explain how your efforts would result in a winged, legless dragon child. Save your document and upload it here.
  • Breed your dragons and take a screenshot of the results. Paste your screenshot into a Word document (make it very large so I can see it). Save your document and upload it here.

Part 3: Pedigree and Genes

  • Examine dragons of your F8 generation. Are there any alleles that are different? Take a screenshot (not a virtual lab notebook snapshot) of this generation. Paste your screenshot into a Word document (make it large enough for me to see) and explain what alleles are different. Save your document and upload it here.
  • How many generations does it take until all the dragons are the same? Take a screenshot (not a virtual lab notebook snapshot) of this generation. Paste your screenshot into a Word document (make it large enough for me to see). Briefly discuss your mating scheme to get to this generation. Save your document and upload it here. NOTE: If you reach F30 and still have differences, take a screenshot of that generation and discuss your mating scheme.
  • What is something noteworthy about inbred strains of organisms?

Part 4: The Plates Problem

  • Is it possible to determine how the plates on a dragon’s neck are inherited by examining the offspring of the first pair of dragons? Explain your answer.
  • During the course of your pedigree crosses, what could you determine about the inheritance of neck plates? Explain your answer.
  • Where do you think the gene for neck plates is located? Why do you think this?
  • Based on what you know, what trait seems to indicate a dragon will grow plates later in life? Why do these two traits stay connected?

Microbiology Gram Negative- Unknown Project.

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My investigation is on Gram-Negative. I will be attaching the descriptive chart

No you do not need to fill anything in on the descriptive chart, there will be some blanks and that’s okay.
So the next thing you look at for the gram negative rod will be the oxygen requirement on your descriptive chart. If it is aerobic then you will need to move onto the species ID chart to compare Pseudomonas, Acinetobacter, and Alcaligenes. If its a facultative anaerobe then you keep going on the flow chart looking at motility. If its non-motile you would have Klebsiella or Shigella. If its motile you will have one of the many bacteria in Group IV. To distinguish group IV you go to the other Gram negative flow chart for Group IV and V to narrow it down. Be sure to pay attention to the variable results for citrate, that I mention in the zoom. Once you get to an end point on that flow chart you move to the species ID chart. Morphological, Cultural, and  Biochemical characteristics indicated are on the descriptive chart that will be attached. The combination of all the results given will allow for the identification  of the bacterium to the Genus and Species level using flow charts and a species identification chart.   Followed by utilization of DNA sequencing to provide final confirmation of the genus and species.This paper will include the methodology used in the research, the results of your research, and interpretations and conclusions drawn from these results. Your conclusions must include the identification of your assigned bacterium down to the species level.

Suggested order to complete the report:
1.  Create your Table: The best place to start is create your Table of essential and non-essential
tests.  You should jot down the essential tests as you run through the identification using the
flow chart(s) and the species ID chart.  Any test that you had to look at the result of on the flow
chart and species ID chart is an essential test.
2.  Create your Dichotomous key/Flow chart:  Once the table is created the essential tests in the
table are the same tests that should go on to the flow chart, so this would be a good next step in
writing your paper.  Also you should do this soon after you have ID’d using the flow chart and
species ID chart that way it is fresh in your mind and will be easier to create. Even if you just
rough draft sketch it out on paper then you can later create the polished version in the
computer.
3. Write your Results section and complete your Results Journal: These can be completed in
either order or done simultaneously.  You will need to refer back to the Biochemical testing labs
to get the info such as appearance of the results and meaning of the results.  Remember for
your journal you will images from the internet and include the link to the webpage you found
the image on.
4. Discussion:  Write your discussion.
5. Introduction: Write your introduction.  It may seem weird, but it kind of makes sense to write
your Introduction last, what better way to be able to introduce and summarize the project then
after you have written the entire report.

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Bacteria Gram rxn Shape Endospore Capsules Motility O2 Req. Pigment Hemolysis Prod. Of H2S Indole MR VP Citrate Urease Ferm. of Glucose Ferm. of Lactose Ferm. of Sucrose Ferm. of Mannitol Red. Of Nitrates Arginine Lysine Ornithine Gelatinase Catalase Oxidase Starch Casein Phenylalanine DNase Opt. Temp Other Temps Coagulase Lancefield Growth in NaCl Bile Esculin
Acinetobacter baumannii – R – + – A – – – – + + – A – – – – + + – + – – – – 33-35℃ grows 15℃ – 44℃
Acinetobacter haemolyticus – R – + – A – β – – – + – V – – – – + – + + – – – – 33-35℃ max 37℃
Alcaligenes faecalis – R – + + A – – – – – – + – – – – – – – – – – + + – + – 20-37℃
Alcaligenes latus – R – + + A + – – – – – + – A – – – + – – – + + + – + – 20-37℃
Bacillus cereus + R + – + FA – β – – + + V A – A – + – – – + + V + + – + 30℃ grows 20℃ – 45℃
Bacillus megaterium + R + + + A – – – – – – + + A – A A – – – – + + + + + + + 20-45℃
Bacillus subtilis + R + – + A – β – – – + + – A – A A + – – – + + V + + V + 30-37℃
Chromobacterium fluviatile – R/sc – – + FA + – – – – – V – A – – – + – – – + + + – + – 30-37℃ grows at 4℃
Chromobacterium violaceum – R/sc – – + FA + – + – – – V – A – – – + + – – + + + – + – 30-37℃
Citrobacter diversus – R – – + FA – – – + + – + +, w, d AG A A(d) A + d – + – + – – – 35-37℃
Citrobacter freundii – R – – + FA – – + – + – + +, w, d AG A A(d) A + + – -(d) – + – – – 35-37℃
Corynebacterium diphtheriae + R/P – – – FA – V – – + – – – A – – – + – + – d – – – 30-37℃
Corynebacterium xerosis + R/P – – – FA – – – – – – – – A – A – + – + – – – – – 30-37℃
Enterobacter aerogenes – R – – + FA – – – – – + + – AG AG AG AG + – + + – + – – – 30-37℃
Enterobacter cloacae – R – – + FA – – – – – + + d AG AG AG AG + + – + – + – – – 30-37℃
Enterococcus cecorum + C/O – – – FA – α – + + A A A – – – – ND 37℃ grows 10℃ – 45℃ – +
Enterococcus faecalis + C/O – – – (w) FA – – ND ND + A A A A – + – V 37℃ grows 10℃ – 45℃ + +
Escherichia blattae – R – + – FA – – – – + – d – AG – – – + – + + – + – – – – – 37℃
Escherichia coli – R – + + FA – – – + + – – – AG AG – AG + – + d – + – – – – – 37℃
Klebsiella oxytoca – R – + – FA – – – + – + + + AG AG AG AG + – + – – + – – – 37℃ grows at 10℃
Klebsiella pneumoniae – R – + – FA – – – – – + + + AG AG AG AG + – + – – + – – – 37℃
Micrococcus luteus + C – – – A + – – – – – – – – – – – + + + (w) – 25-37℃
Micrococcus roseus (aka Kocuria rosea) + C – – + A + – – – – – A – – – + – – + – – 25-37℃
Proteus mirabilis – R – – + FA – – + – + + +/V + AG – – – + – – + + + – – – + + 37℃
Proteus vulgaris – R – – + FA – – + + + – -/V + AG – AG – + – – – + + – – – + + 37℃
Providencia heimbachae – R – – + FA – – + + – – – – – – – + – – – – + – + – 37℃
Providencia stuartii – R – – + FA – – + + – + d A – A – + – – – – + – + – 37℃
Pseudomonas aeruginosa – R – + A + β – – A – – V + + + + + – 30-37℃ grows at 41℃
Pseudomonas fluorescens – R – + A + – – – A – A A + + + + + – 30-37℃ grows at 4℃
Serratia liquefaciens – R – V + FA – V – – – + + – V – AG AG + – + + + + – + – V 30-37℃
Serratia marcescens – R – V + FA + β – – – + + – AG – AG AG + – + + + + – + – + 30-37℃
Staphylococus aureus + C – – – FA V β +w A A A A + +w + – + 30-37℃ grows 15 – 45℃ +
Staphylococcus epidermidis + C – – – FA – – + A d d – +w +w + – -w 30-37℃ grows at 45℃ –
Staphylococcus saprophyticus + C – – – FA – – + A d d A – -w + – + 30-37℃ grows at 15℃ –
Streptococcus mutans + C/O – – – FA – – + – A A A A – -/d – – – V + 37℃ grows 22℃ – 45℃ none – –
Streptococcus pneumoniae + C – + – FA – α – – A A A -/V – +/V – – – + 37℃ grows 25℃ – 42℃ none – –
Streptococcus pyogenes + C – + – FA – β – – A A A – – + – – – + 37℃ A – –
Explanation of Abbreviations:
Shape: R= Rod P= pleomorphic sc= slightly curved C= Cocci O= Ovoid
O2 Requirement: FA= Facultative anaerobe A= Aerobe (obligate aerobe) AN=Anaerobe
Hemolysis: β= Beta α= alpha – = none (gamma)
Fermentation: A= Acid AG= Acid and Gas
Misc.: w= weak d= (11-89% of strain positive) V= varies ND= not determined