Coyote Call Issue 4 2016-2017

COYOTE CALL Edited By: Bailey Brooks Benefits of Outdoor Exercise By: Zephaniah Hamblin San Juan

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Issue No.4 -- Spring Labeling GMOs: Hungry For Knowledge or Just Feeding the Hype?

Poems That I Like

Poems

By: Madeline Parker

By: Rylie Udall

By: Bailey Brooks

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By: Rocco Barbieri

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A Poetry Collection

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Benefits of Outdoor Exercise

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L L products and remedies to prevent ThereC areA many sunburns. To avoid heat exhaustion have proper clothing, such as hats and lightweight, breathable clothing. Also make sure to hydrate a lot prior. If you are going to be out for a long time make sure to take occasional breaks in shade and again stay hydrated.

Two studies were conducted by the NewYork Times of approximately 800 participants of outdoor exercise, and almost each participant reported feeling more revitalized and enthusiastic And as for unnatural hazards like crime, and less stressed and angry. Outdoor exercise people wouldn’t want to work out outdoors improves energy levels and decreases stress levels to with risk of being attacked or robbed. a greater extent than exercise indoors.

While research actually shows that crime against runners is quite low, taking precautions plays a big part in crime prevention. There are many different self-defense mechanisms, such as pepper spray, that would ensure your safety. As long as you don’t put yourself in a place of danger and always stay alert Both have quite easy fixes. Planning accordingly and wearing appropriate clothing are what you can and well armed with a self-defense mechanism then do in case of inclement conditions. Seeing what the you will be safe. Eventually you won’t even have to worry about criminals, what with all the exercise weather would be like would determine what you you’ve been doing. would be wearing. Of course, if it’s 110 degrees outside you wouldn’t be wearing a hoodie and What if people are too self-conscious to sweatpants. Planning accordingly would be exercise outdoors? beneficial to other aspects of your life. Now obviously people can’t control the weather, but you It is understandable to be self-conscious, especially can control how you protect yourself from it. If if you haven’t reached your personal workout goals. your allergies are starting to act up (or you know However, the additional benefits to exercising they will when you go outside) then allergy outside should outweigh the feelings of selfmedication such as nasal sprays, non-drowsy allergy consciousness. These benefits include sunshinerelief pills, and eye drops are all anti-allergen produced vitamin D, which supports strong bones advancements that are a quick fix. and a healthier immune system, better attitude and energy. Looking at scenery and being in nature not What about other natural hazards such as only benefits your health and sense of well-being sunburns, dehydration, heat exhaustion, but it benefits your overall awareness as well. uneven surfaces, pollution in the air, and many others?

Exercising outdoors has so many benefits. Don’t get me wrong. Exercise in general has plenty of While all of those would be good points to be benefits no matter where you do it, but doing it concerned about like the previous issues, they all outside has been proven to be better. have simple fixes. Awareness plays a big part in helping prevent these hazards from affecting you.

What about the weather and allergies?

People wouldn’t want to go out in extreme weathers or when allergens are high just to exercise.

C O Y O Labeling GMOs: Hungry for Knowledge or Just

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C A L L % Though it’s a simple concept, GMO labeling has come up against extreme Feeding the Hype? opposition. Big agribusiness corporations, like By: Rocco Barbieri Monsanto, spent about $100 million to oppose

% Feeding the world or killing the world? labeling, and continues to squash efforts made Genetically modified organisms, or GMOs, are by consumer advocate organizations. One plants that have had certain genes removed, argument against the proposed mandate is that replaced, or tweaked to give them pest companies would have to reprint all their resistance and other benefits. Food crops are packaging to identify genetically engineered engineered to be resistant to weed killers like ingredients. This would force companies that Roundup, as well as able to produce their own use GMOs to raise production costs, which will pesticide and are drought tolerant. These then cause them to raise employment costs, qualities are examples of how the biotech until these increased costs get passed down to industry is supposedly changing agriculture for the consumer. According to a 2014 Cornell the better to “feed the world.” However, University study, if New York enforced GMO foods may not be all they’re cracked up mandatory labeling, it could cost a family of to be. The organic food industry believes that four up to $1,500 more per year in annual food the pesticides produced by GMO plants don't costs (Lesser). They claim that by forcing them just kill bugs, but people too. Studies have also to label GMOs, the other non-GMO food found that the resistance to weed killers in companies will look better and cheaper in these plants isn't very strong and that comparison on store shelves, giving them an herbicides, like 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid, unfair competitive advantage. However, there is is seeping into our food (Sedbrook). People in a very small chance that the relabeling will opposition to GMO farming want to pass a cause prices to go so high that it ruins game changing law that will identify GMO companies. According to an evaluation from the foods in the supermarket. California Consumers Union, the median cost of designing Proposition 37, or the Mandatory Labeling of and labeling a food product as containing GMO Genetically Engineered Food Initiative, ingredients would be just $2.30 a year per essentially says that if a food product contains person (Lee). On top of that, they say these any genetically modified foods, it needs to be costs could be absorbed and may not even be labeled as such on the nutrition facts side of the passed on to consumers. I would also like to label. If GMO foods become labeled, it will point out that food companies change labels all ultimately lead to a better future of the time, saying, "New Look, Same Taste!” nutrigenomics.

O Y would O T EOne of C the A reasons L L An alternative to labeling a product asC GMO why people are against GMOs

be to certify it as organic. However, conventional farmers argue that “going organic” would be cost prohibitive and put them out of business. They claim that the process of certifying crops as organic is a lengthy, complicated, and expensive process. In

and are for GMO labeling is because the GMO business giants, like Monsanto, are extremely secretive. All tests done by and/or funded by them, have been on short-term effects. In fact, one test done on long-term effects of genetically engineered

addition, if they don’t continue to comply with the USDA National Organic Program regulations, they will have to deal with fines and court fees. “The measure would also have required farmers, manufacturers and retailers to keep a whole new set

foods on rats proved to give the rats massive tumors during the last half of their lives (Robinson, et al). But Monsanto criticized the experiment, saying that the breed of rats they used weren’t reliable test subjects, even though they were the

of detailed records and to prepare for lawsuits challenging the ‘naturalness’ of their products,” says Scientific American Magazine. However, none of this would have to happen if organic was the norm, and GMO labeling is the next step towards

same rats Monsanto used in their own short-term studies. If GMOs were labeled, people would be able to not only avoid sharing the rats’ fate, but they would survive to change GMOs for the better. % One of the reasons I believe that GMO

normalcy. % Supporters of genetic engineering claim that based on research, “no substantiated evidence that foods from GE crops were less safe than foods from non-GE crops” (Lynas). This is true. There is

labeling should be required, is because if companies don’t want to be identified as a GMO company, they will decrease or discontinue the use of GMO ingredients. As a result, this may put pressure on other food companies into doing the same thing,

no proof that GMOs are any more harmful than non-GMOs. However, genetically modified foods were not marketed until the mid-1990’s, so the lasting effects at this point are still unknown.

According to the Union of Concerned Scientists,

giving the health-conscience consumer more affordable food options. Then, instead of putting millions of dollars toward anti-labeling campaigns, big agribusiness corporations can fund research on the long-term effects, if any, of GMO consumption.

“There is a lot we don't know about the long-term and epidemiological risks of GE—which is no reason for panic, but a good reason for caution, particularly in view of alternatives that are more effective and economical” (Gurian-Sherman).

% We may never see an end to the controversy.

If foods continue to be genetically engineered, there will always be those who believe GMO foods are a solution to world hunger and conversely, those who are concerned about the nutritional and health risks. Which side one supports is a personal choice: the shady side of the powerful agrochemical corporations, like Monsanto, or the organic farming communities who actually want to feed the world, not their pockets.

A Poetry Collection By: Madeline Parker

Change

Sara Teasdale

Remember me as I was then; Turn from me now, but always see The laughing shadowy girl who stood At midnight by the flowering tree, With eyes that love had made as bright As the trembling stars of the summer night.

Turn from me now, but always hear The muted laughter in the dew Of that one year of youth we had, The only youth we ever knew— Turn from me now, or you will see What other years have done to me.

Advice to a Girl No one worth possessing Can be quite possessed; Lay that on your heart, My young angry dear; This truth, this hard and precious stone, Lay it on your hot cheek, Let it hide your tear.

Hold it like a crystal When you are alone And gaze in the depths of the icy stone.

Long, look long and you will be blessed: No one worth possessing Can be quite possessed.

Sara Teasdale was an American poet whose subjects centered around the female mind and women’s views of beauty, love, and death. She was much sought after when she was young, and ended up divorcing the man she married.

I can relate to both of these poems. “Change” is like a plea for an onlooker to see the softer side of the narrator - the person she used to be. She doesn’t want to be known for the hardness and bitterness in her. She wants to be remembered as what she used to be before life crushed her. In “Advice to a Girl”, Teasdale tells the female population in general to be confident and know that she doesn’t have to have someone to be someone.

Emily Bronte Hope Hope was but a timid friend; She sat without the grated den, Watching how my fate would tend, Even as selfish-hearted men.

She was cruel in her fear; Through the bars, one dreary day, I looked out to see her there, And she turned her face away!

Like a false guard, false watch keeping, Still, in strife, she whispered peace; She would sing while I was weeping; If I listened, she would cease.

False she was, and unrelenting; When my last joys strewed the ground, Even Sorrow saw, repenting, Those sad relics scattered round; Hope, whose whisper would have given Balm to all my frenzied pain, Stretched her wings, and soared to heaven, Went, and ne'er returned again!

She Dried Her Tears She dried her tears and they did smile To see her cheeks' returning glow How little dreaming all the while That full heart throbbed to overflow With that sweet look and lively tone And bright eye shining all the day They could not guess at midnight lone How she would weep the time away

Emily Bronte was best known for her book Wuthering Heights. She was one of several sisters, all of whom became well-known authors. Bronte was extremely ambitious and intelligent.

I feel like I can relate to both of these poems. The first poem, “Hope” is more about hopelessness than it is hope. And though I often feel this way - as if the universe is against me and I have no hope, I know the truth: that I have a God who is the ultimate source of hope standing right beside me. The second poem, “She Dried Her Tears” is extremely relatable because who doesn’t do this? What girl or guy for that matter doesn’t hide their feelings and put on a brave face in public. We all do this.

Poems That I Like Feline Fantasies

By Aly Stealey,

"When the day is done, And no light comes my way I sit and talk with my cat and we make plans to be deviant."

By Rylie Udall

Aly Stealey wrote this poem. She is in the 8th grade, and goes to Hereford Middle School.

I like this poem because it talks about spending time with your cat and as many know, I love cats.

That’s Why I AM Scared

By Bob Marley

“You say you love rain, but you use an umbrella to walk under it.

You say you love sun, but you seek shelter when it is shining.

You say you love wind, but when it comes you close your windows.

So that's why I'm scared when you say you love me.”

Bob Marley was born February 6, 1945. He was a Jamaican song writer who became one of the worldwide, best-selling artists of all time.

I like this part of the song because it talks about love and how little things can make you scared to believe in someone.

Holding On And Letting Go

By Erin Hanson

I was the type of person, That held onto things too tight, Unable to release my grip, When it no longer felt right, And although it gave me blisters, And my fingers would all ache, I always thought that holding on, Was worth the pain it takes,

I like this poem mostly because many times I have I tried holding on to something that was not good for me.

Erin Hanson is a female artist who went to college for art. She likes to be outside to inspire her work.

I used to think in losing things, I’d lose part of me too, That slowly I’d become someone, My heart no longer knew, Then one day something happened, I dropped what I had once held dear, But my soul became much lighter, Instead of filled with fear...

I picked two poems by the same person because I feel like she is really understanding and reaches out to the person reading.

I like the poem “What If I Fall” because it is telling you to take a risk.

You don’t know what could happen until you try.

What If I Fall?

By Erin Hanson

There is freedom waiting for you, On the breezes of the sky, And you ask, "What if I fall?"

Oh, but my darling, What if you fly?

POEMS selected by Bailey Brooks Whose woods these are I think I know.

His house is in the village, though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow.

My little horse must think it queer To stop without a farmhouse near Between the woods and frozen lake The darkest evening of the year He gives his harness bells a shake To ask if there is some mistake.

The only other sound's the sweep Of easy wind and downy flake.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep.

-Robert Frost, Stopping In The Woods On A Snowy Evening; Robert Frost lived from 1874 to 1963. He had six children, four of which he outlived. He was the first poet to read at a presidential inauguration.

I’m particularly fond of this poem, having heard it at a young age. To me, it states that you can find beauty even when the suffocation of being alone looms over you. That there is more to live for; to live through the cold, dark winter just to see the spring.

Will you stand above me?

Look my way, never love me Rain keeps falling, rain keeps falling Down, down, down -Simple Minds, Don’t You Forget About Me; formed in 1977.

This song is composed and written by the producer of the band, Kieth Forsey. It was released on the 20th of February, 1985 (image via The Breakfast Club, a movie the song was featured in).

I like this song because it reminds me of a better time, when life was simpler and finding yourself was easier. Now, no one knows what they want to do or who they want to be, and it’s terrifying.

I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings The free bird leaps on the back of the wind and floats downstream till the current ends and dips his wings in the orange sun rays and dares to claim the sky.

But a bird that stalks down his narrow cage can seldom see through his bars of rage his wings are clipped and his feet are tied so he opens his throat to sing...

The caged bird sings with a fearful trill of things unknown but longed for still and his tune is heard on the distant hill for the caged bird sings of freedom.

-Maya Angelou, I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, published in 1969, Maya Angelou was born in 1928 and died in 2014. She was a poet, a memoirist, and a civil rights activist. She had one child.

This poem alludes to the segregation and suffering of black people, which is an important issue. On a personal note for me, it symbolizes the lack of freedom that comes from being only sixteen, and the want to do so much without the means.

There is freedom waiting for you, On the breezes of the sky, And you ask “What if I fall?”

Oh but my darling, What if you fly?

-Erin Hanson; not much is known

I miss cities that I have never visited, the books I have never read, the hearts I have never broken, the tears I have never shed.

I crave for the love I never got the thoughts I never had the smiles I never showed the person I never was

-s.g.; unknown This poem speaks for itself. Almost anyone can relate to it, and that’s what I like about it; it’s very general but very deep. It says what people never get the chance to think.

I tried to forget but you grew roots around my ribcage and sprouted flowers just below my collarbones. all day I pluck their petals but I have not yet ascertained whether you love me or not -Unknown

This poem is simple and elegant, with so much meaning. It speaks of the woes that come along with love, and of the pain that doesn’t solely consist of heartbreak. It’s the not knowing, and the absence of anything, that hurts the most.