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Jessica Hardy Executive Summary

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Improve-Mint is a company new to the pesticide and insecticide market. The organization was founded in March of 2016 and is originally based out of Kansas City, MO. Improve-Mint specializes in a unique niche regarding the agricultural pest control market. Improve-Mint offers chemical free pesticides made with all natural ingredients to individual and industrial agriculture operations. The primary ingredients are peppermint, cayenne, tea tree oil and garlic. All ingredients are acquired from local growers to ensure product quality, potency and supports the local small business economy. All product containers are BPA free. Improve-Mint offers a rebate program for customers who participate in the container recycling program. BPA free plastics …show more content…

She has client relations experience where the task is to help clients understand the product and work with them to try to fix any issues or alter it to accommodate client needs and expectations. Jessica Hardy is a Finance Manager with over 25 years in the accounting field. Jessica has a dual major bachelors of science in management/accounting and management/human resources. Her accomplishments include: experience in expenditure and revenue forecasts, historical trends, auditing, and human resources. She worked for the aerospace industry as an accountant for 15 years, over 12 years as a Senior Accountant for a local municipality, and over a year as a Finance Manager with the State of Utah at the Utah Schools for the Deaf and the Blind. Monica Langley holds a Bachelor’s degree with a concentration in Entrepreneurship. She has worked, for the past seven years, as an accounting and administrative assistant being the fourth generation in the family metal recycling …show more content…

The expansion of the global agrochemical and pesticide industry is forecast to reach 5.9% p.a. in the coming years. Between 2008 and 2014 the market increased with an average annual growth of 10.2%. Currently, anti-sprouting products, herbicides and plant-growth regulators account for 42.7% of the global demand while the remaining market share is divided between insecticides (27.1%), fungicides (19.7%), disinfectants (3.4%) and other agrochemicals and pesticides (7.0%). China, France, Germany, India and the United States represent the largest agrochemical and pesticide markets while the strongest annual growth is forecast to occur in China (8.8%), Egypt (8.7%), India (8.5%), Bangladesh (8.1%) and South Korea (7.0%) (Hexa Reports, 2016). The company’s market niche is taking the chemically charged 43% of the marketing and converting it to natural ingredients that are just as effective as the chemical but safer for consumers. There are not many studies done on the long term effects of chemical pesticides in the body. One study involving lab rats concluded regular consumption of pesticides caused diseases by disrupting the endocrine and nervous system of the animals. Considering all the contaminants measured, these diets, when consumed over a long-term experimental period, would be considered by standard measurements to pose a very high hazard to health (Robinson, 2015). This is why the product

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There is always opposition to pesticides because of the harm that it can cause on the environment and the animals alike. Pesticides though have saved a lot of hard work for farmers over the past couple of decades because it does all the dirty work, for example, the killing of weeds and other pests. Pesticides have also saved a lot of money for farmers by preventing pests from damaging crops or taking the nutrients and water supply away from crops. (Whitford, 7) In the future we need to start to find less toxic ways to prevent pests from attacking the crops and vegetation. This would prevent a lot of the other costs associated with pesticides for example, health costs for farmers that are exposed to the toxic chemicals or the killing of the habitats in the surrounding areas.

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In another study done by Oregon state College, “chemical pesticides have become the most important consciously-applied form of pest management”. When pesticides were first introduced into the equation, many of them were either too toxic or not effective. There were some positives to the pesticides. For example, it killed most insects and had no toxicity to mammals. It did not get washed away by water easy and it didn't break down.

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Mya Berry MATTHEW FORESTER Ap Lang Apr 9, 2024 Rachel Carson In 1962 Rachel Carson was successful in her argument against pesticides in her 1962 book Silent Spring, as explained in her book about the incident in California an orchard worker handling foliage was treated from pesticide poisoning which caused them to go into shock and barely escape death but with skilled medical attention they survived. This incident describes how powerful the example she uses is, why pesticides are bad and not used correctly and can affect human health. Carson brings attention to the severe consequences faced by workers affected by pesticides and the workers life was only saved by medical attention, which shows the grave situation and the urgent need for responsible and sustainable practices

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On the other hand, pesticides are not a good idea because, they are in the food we eat and water we drink. These Pesticides are hurting tens of thousands of animals and humans each and every day and we don´t even realize it either. Pesticides are in everything they are in the food we eat and the air we breath and even in the water we drink. Also, does it ever make you wander is the food we eat safe and the other the things that pesticides effect that affect are they really safe for me to be eating or even drinking. While, you still stuck on that kind of problem you will not belive what else they hurt are honey bees and the honey we eat.

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In 2016, CBA diverted 99.2% of its waste from landfills (Craft Brew Alliance, 2016). Along with environmentalism, consumers now expect businesses to engage in acts of philanthropy. CBA

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In the first few chapters Rachel Carson stated that the large number of harmful things announced each year was possibly making the earth unfit for all life. Insecticides or dangerous substances are becoming more poisonous. The persons in charge of monitoring safe chemical usage were worried only about materialistic worth and were losing sight of the overall picture. Before World War II, inorganic substances were the main pest controls. Carson highlighted that chlorinated hydrocarbons and organophosphates was the central complications leading to animals such as bird and fish illnesses and most unfortunately death, human nervous system disorders (headaches, dizziness), and death of humans.

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The Central Valley of California is known to be one of the wealthiest agricultural regions in the world. Decades ago the chemical industries promised that pesticides would benefit fields and harvest. But recently a five-year study conducted by the National Academy showed that pesticides do not in fact provide profit or improve growth in crops. Chavez goes on to talk about how fields are sprayed with Captan, Parathion,

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By adding more pesticides to the crops, we are increasing the pollution in the air. Not only do the chemical pesticides affect the environment, it also has an effect on the soil and crops. When farmers put the pesticides on the crops the fruits and vegetables start to lose it’s nutritional value. Also, pesticides have an affect on people’s health. People are at risk of having, “cancer, nervous system diseases and reproductive problems” (“Why Organic: Harmful Effects of Chemical Pesticides”) when they are exposed to the pesticides.

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One reason pesticides are bad for the environment is because it makes animals sick. To prove this in the short story it states, “mysterious maladies swept the flocks of chickens; the cattle.” This shows that the use of pesticides sickened and weakened

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In an almost poetic way she tells a story in chapter one which describes the devastation the chemicals can cause to a town and then she goes about supporting this story with her research and facts- in a true scientific way throughout the remainder of the work. Interestingly, at times she refers to the pesticides as “life-killers” and talks about the true reasoning behind the use of pesticides- not really to destroy insects which cause a threat or true problem, but rather to increase the production of crops for the farming industry- more production, more money, more pesticides sold again the next year. The detail in which she writes, breaking down each chemical and the detrimental impact it has on the world and humans in particular- whether directly or indirectly- is very impressive and demonstrates the amount of work she has put in. Her description of the impact or almost multiplication of the intensity of the poison when it enters our water system is alarming. She discusses the activation of poison when mixed with water, the difference of liquid forms of the poisons compared to dry powders, the spread of poisons more rapidly and much more far-reaching when they enter drinking water, water runoffs and bodies of water.

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