a video about GMO(genetically modified organism)

we had a topic about GMO's and my professor gave us a lot of assignments one is which the video that we will make must not be over 1 minute and should answer his specific questions(I will not say what it is).


I made this abomination.

 

i liked the vid until it started telling me i'm a cuck with a little pickle

 

So in the end, it all comes down to mine being bigger than yours?

 

i just realized what i did and it made me laugh.

 

i like it

 

If your professor was asking about the advantages of GMO, you might want to consider that the first commercial use of GMO was to make crops more defoliant resistant. Weed killing herbicides actually kill ALL plants, it's just a matter of dosage, so Monsanto(?) made their "Roundup Ready" strain of crops more resistant to their own "Roundup" brand herbicide. This meant that you can use less chemicals (though a more toxic one to plants) for the same effect of weedkilling while your crops will still be ok.

That's the theory but IRL they found that farmers just poured in more herbicide until they were close to the Roundup Ready crop's tolerence. Super overkill but apparently they underestimated human paranoia, so ironically even more chemicals were used. On the bright side though, weeds be really, really gone.

As for the "bigger/stronger/fatter" line, a lot of that is actually selective breeding, hybridization and food/hormone therapy rather than GMO.

Just throwing this out in case you might have gone down the wrong answer path.

 

i'll use this as my reference if my professor made me remake my video.

 

Be my guest.

As you can guess, we're probably in the same course of study. Though I graduated almost 20 years back.

Just remember, most GMOs initially were defensive measures. Roundup Ready was resistance to herbicide, Bt cotton was for insect resistance. Just some reference words for you to look up.

Bt (Bacillus thuringiensis) Cotton, Roundup Ready

PS: I just remembered something, the first wasn't Roundup Ready, it was actually Flavr Savr tomatoes or something like that, modified to slow down tomato softening and rot, I forgot about it because the company that made it went bust, so it was short lived publicity then it died off.
So as you can see, GMOs were actually defensive in nature, insect resistance, herbicide resistance, rot resistance etc.

 

This is art

 

So.. Is GMO's image good in your country or is it just because you actually learn about it at school that you know what it's all about?
( in my country, GMO's image is shit and people do believe that it is more cancerous than cigarettes)

 

Well, considering his post mentioned "professor" and "assignment".....
For me, it was one of my majors.

 

That was to make sure.
So i guess GMO's image is just as bad as in my country right?