Choose and read/view any one (or more) of the following, to be referenced in the assignments that follow:

• Monsanto Owns Your Food Patents: A video overview of the court case involving the ownership of seeds and the food that we eat.
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reI0-n8Ra9A
  
• Agriculture Today - An Excerpt from the Documentary Farmboy: Farming is changing. This short film clip describes some of these changes.
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Yc7sVSKcDA
  
• Dutch to build Tulip island?: An artificial ecosystem and its impact on natural ecosystems
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0mhOd5HR0c
• Timeline of agriculture and technology: A brief Wikipedia article on the developments in agriculture over time.
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_agriculture_and_food_technology
• Technology for agriculture: This web site provides pictures and a brief explanation of technological developments in agriculture throughout the history of man.
  http://www.wsu.edu/gened/learn-modules/top_agrev/5-Technology/technology1.html