The Effects of Traditionally Processed vs. Commercially Processed Food on Earthworms

Overview

Due to all of the overfilled landfills and all of the food waste that is produced each day, I used worms to understand how the worms might be able to help get rid of waste. I tested which type of food source would be best for the worms. I used raw carrots that I cooked with water for my traditionally processed(TP) food and canned carrots for my commercially processed(CP) as the independent variables and I used leaves as my control. Each food group had 3 bins with 10 worms in each, therefore each food source had 30 worms each. In total, I had 90 worms in this experiment. I checked on the worms for two months and fed them when they ran out of food. In the end, the worms that ate the CP carrots were both smaller in length and weight and had more deaths than the other two groups I had two very small P-values for the weight and the length (4.1E-38, 4.4E-47) showing that there was a significant difference in the length and weight of the worms that were fed the different food sources.

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