Gmo Persuasive Speech

GMOs: The debate that keeps on killing it self in an endless cycle of bad and good. But GMOs are not all bad, and that is why I'm going to inform you of the good they do. I understand that a lot of people believe that GMOs are bad things because of the words, genetically modified organisms, but I can assure you that things are not as they seem. First, what's the difference, after all we are A-OK with modifying genetics in man like CRISPR, what's the difference when it comes to foods? Second, we have done this for thousands of years. Many crops that we love today were not as they seem back a 1000 years or so. Nevertheless GMOs are just the next step in our geosphere. Lastly, there's not really any problems with GMOs.

GMO’s are typically referred

to as genetically modified food, So that's where we will stay on this topic. A lot of the pressure against GM crops is that it sounds like those gens will kill us
but they won’t. A lot of pressure is on BT crops. A gene from a bacteria that is an effective bug killer is put in. This sounds alarming! Weed killers and pesticides can be washed off, but the poison is inside the crop! But really, poison is perspective. BT is a digestive problem for bugs due to the way their digestive tract is, but our gut lets the BT food just go through. An example is coffee. A delight to us, but is harmful to bugs, or chocolate, harmful to pets like dogs, but humans love it! Or say, plants that can be resistant to weed killers(from video 3:38-4:24) . This allows farmers to use weed killers freely, killing competition, while leaving the crop intact.

GM crops can also increase yields, decrease land needed for crops, decrease greenhouse gases, and decrease food prices. A great picture is this one below.

This picture shows how deserts that can’t harvest crops can be made into vast fields of food(if you would like to see the video here is the link --->Are GMOs Good or Bad?).

This is why GM crops are so good! They can make farming more efficient, allow them to pump out more food, and can make food on badlands. And also, GM crops can save a crop! An example can be the eggplant in Bangladesh Eggplant is very important there, but often whole harvests are destroyed by pests, meaning that farmers had to use pesticides often. Not only was this expensive, but also got farmers sick a lot. A GM eggplant in 2013 stopped this(according to the video(5:31-6:05)). Another example is Hawaii in the 1990’s. The papaya industry was under attack by the ringspot virus, which would have killed the papaya crop of the face of the earth if it weren't for this new GM crop that was engineered to be vaccinated against the virus(6:11-6:25).

GM crops could be a winning factor in our survival. GM crops could be engineered to help our diets, lending a healthier world to us. GM crops could be more tolerant to climate change, like huge droughts and floods, sudden temperature spikes and drops. We could modify crops that slow climate change, when it comes to this type of stuff, our imagination is our limit. By 2050 we will most likely need 70% more food than we eat on a daily basins(11 billion pounds). We could do this by helping climate change and destroying forests, or make more effective methods like GMO crops with the land we

have(6:41-7:48).

Altogether, GM crops could save our Geosphere. Yes, there are problems with GM crops, but the benefits outweigh the problems. We need to be open about a food that due to studies is that harmful at all. We have been doing this for years, there is no difference, so why should we make it a big deal?