Genetically Modified Organisms

VIDEO ESSAY 2 – GMO

OUTLINE

My focus

- Slow down and take pauses between sentences, once in awhile

- Depth in Speech (not just what was discussed in class, but also my personal insight)

Topic

Why GMO is “good”

Examples

- Benefits farmers (less monitoring and spraying pesticides → time efficient)

- Saves lives in LEDC Countries (ex. Golden Rice & Africa)

Lesson

- Think about the science behind GMO, not just attacking with “what if…”s

- In the end of the day, GMO is here to benefit us.

- And by definition, every food we buy in the store is basically genetically modified food anyways

SCRIPT

In my Video Essay 2 I will focus on slowing down the speed of my speech while taking pauses between sentences, and I will continue to work on giving depth into my content of my speech.

The topic of my Video Essay is: So why is GMO “good”?

Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO) is one of the most heatedly debated and controversial food/environmental topics ever since it was discovered.

Yet, despite on-going debates surrounding this topic, not all, but most of the ones who are against Genetically modified food, do not have adequate resources that back up their arguments. Needless to say, a lot of them, especially the people who comment on facebook, don’t exactly know what GMO is or what they are talking about.

First of all, GMO can be expanded to not just the food that have been genetically modified in a lab, but selective breeding is also another form of GMO. That makes almost everything we are eating GMO. Humans use natural principles to create various breeds of domesticated food. And selective breeding is based on choosing something with a desirable feature and then reproducing it. Like the apple tree that was discussed in class. It takes longer to grow a good apple naturally, so why not humans interfere by selectively breeding these apples?