Research Proposal and Outline: Steak: Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner?

Meat consumption in the US has established itself over time as a status symbol rather than a necessity. There has never been a better time for environmentalists to become vegetarians. Evidence of the environmental impacts of a meat-based diet is piling up at the same time its health effects are becoming better known. Although vegetarianism [...]

Research Proposal and Outline: Pharmaceuticals in the Environment

     For centuries chemists have been inventing synthesized organic compounds to try to mimic and increase the potency of certain plants with natural healing properties. These potent, petroleum base substitutes are considered a modern marvel in medicine, aiming at specific ailments with few unintended direct effects (side effects). However, one unintended effect of this modern [...]