PERSUASIVE SPPECH PREPARATION OUTLINE
Everyone should buy organic food
Title:
To persuade
General purpose:
To persuade my audience to buy organic food
Specific purpose:
Central idea:
Organic food is the best food for consumers instead of conventional
food
Problem, problem, problem
Organizational pattern:
I. INTRODUCTION
A. Open with
impact/ Let’s imagine. One day you are in a supermarket and you decided to
Attention getter:
buy vegetables. Well, they are all looking the same but they are
actually different. You saw the usual vegetables and the organic
vegetables. The question is which one do you prefer? Usual
vegetables or organic? However, the stigma is that, whenever you
saw the price of organically produce food, you will definitely not
going to buy it. It is understandable that it is a little pricey but
people should know the reason behind it because everyone should
buy organic food.
i. Tie to the audience/ reason
to listen
ii.
Credibility statement/
material
Everyone should have the understanding on why we need to choose
more organic food rather than conventional food.
Therefore, I want to urge all of you to choose and buy organic food
instead of risking your life due to the long term exposure of
chemicals from conventional food.
iii. Preview of main points/ As for today, I will try to change your perspective of view towards
central idea
organic food based on three main points:
i. Organic food: what is it?
ii. Why organic food more nutritious that conventional food?
iii. Organic food is a safer option than conventional food
Transition to body of speech:
Without further delay, I would like to enlighten you on what is it
that is called as organic food?
II. BODY
A. Main point 1:
I am very sure that all of you are fully aware of how conventional
food for example, fruits, vegetables and animals are grown. That is
the problem that we faced currently that is the total of harmful
substances obtain from conventional food. But do you ever know
what organic food is?
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I. Supporting details 1:
ii. Supporting details 2:
Organic food is derived from crops or animals produced in a
farming system that avoid the use of man-made fertilizers,
pesticides, growth regulators and additives.
Organic food is differing from conventional food in many ways.
Organic food use manure and composting to enriched the soils.
Also, the uses of pesticides or herbicides are forbidden. In order to
preserve the soil, organic farmer’s use crop rotation, hand weeds
and mulches. More than that, they do not inject any hormones to
their animals, but to let their animals live naturally by letting them
roaming around. All this reasons why organic is much more
expensive than conventional food. This is because, farmers need to
spend a lot of expenditures in buying compost, transportation fees,
and also labor force.
Next, you need to know why organic food is more nutritious than
conventional food.
Transition to main point 2:
B. Main point 2:
i. Supporting details 1:
ii. Supporting details 2:
Everyone knows that both petrol and diesesl are used as fuels for
cars. But if it is concerns with your car performance, which one do
you prefer the best? Petrol or diesel? Of course you will choose
petrol instead of diesel though it is much expensive. Why? It is
because it is good for your car performance.
This is the same as organic food. Organic food contains a lot of
nutritional values compared to conventional food. Organic food
contains higher beta-carotene, vitamins C, D and E, essentials
minerals and essential fatty acids and others. For examples,
antioxidants in milk from organic cattle is between 50%-80% higher
than normal milk while in organic crops such as tomatoes, potatoes,
cabbage, onions and lettuces, 20%-40% nutrients are recorded.
Organic food also do not have any Monosodium Glutamate
(MSG’s), artificial sweeteners, contaminants or preservatives that
can cause health problems. Eating organic has the potential the
lower the incidence of autism, learning disorders, diabetes, cancer,
coronary heart disease, allergies, osteoporosis, migraines and others.
Lastly, do you ever wondering why choosing organic would be a
safer option?
Transition to main point 3:
The problem with conventional food, for example crops and animals
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B. Main point 2:
i. Supporting details 1:
ii. Supporting details 2:
Transition to conclusion:
are able to damage the soil from the usage of pesticides and
herbicides and also damage the environment.
In contrast, organic food surely benefits the environment because
they do not release any synthetic pesticides, which can harm
wildlife and they also seek to preserve biodiversity and local
ecosystems. However, it is not only safer to the environment but
also to human being.
There are several reasons why organic food would be a safer option
than other food. Such as,
-there are more than 400 chemical pesticides are routinely used in
conventional farming and the residues remains even after washing.
Children are especially vulnerable to the exposures from those
chemicals.
-organic animals are not fed slaughterhouse waste, blood or manure.
Eating organic reduces the risks of CJD, the human version of mad
cow disease as well as Alzheimer’s.
-organic animals are not fed by corn ethanol production which
increases the rate of e. coli contamination.
As for today, I have briefly enlightened you on three main points,
that are:
i. Organic food: what is it?
ii. Why organic food more nutritious that conventional food?
iii. Organic food is a safer option than conventional food
III. CONCLUSION
A. Summary of main points:
Therefore, I want to urge all of you to choose and buy organic food
instead of risking your life due to the long term exposure of
chemicals from conventional food.
What would you do if someday you lose someone that is so dear to
B. Close with impact/Call for
you due to the long term exposure of chemicals that we have
action:
consume for your entire life? For example, imagine if your family or
friends have diseases that may be the outcomes from the chemicals
intake from conventional food? Would you regret for not taking the
action while you are able to do it from now? Well, just think about
it. Therefore, I strongly believed that people should buy organic
food.
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Before I end, I would like to leave a short quote from Annie Padden
and David Jubb,
‘’Many people put more time into the maintenance of their cars than
into their own body! Buy yourself organic vegetables and eat them.
Invest in yourself. ... You can ask yourself, “What have I consumed
today that will build high integrity blood, bone, and brain and body
tissue? What have I done today that will add another day to my
life?”
Thank you.
References:
1. All about organic- Organic Consumers Association (OCA) Organic Resource Centre,
Retrieved on 30th November 2011, http://organicconsumers.org/organlink.cfm
2. Benefits of Organic Farming for Society, A. Häring, S. Dabbert,
F. Offermann, H.
Nieberg Department of Farm Economics (410 A), University
of Hohenheim, 70593 Stuttgart, Germany, Federal Agricultural Research Centre,
Bundesallee 50, 38116 Braunschweig, Germany, European Conference – Organic
Food and Farming, 10.-11. May 2001, Copenhagen, Denmark.
3. Organic food versus conventional food, by Erika Bizousky, retrieved on 30th November
2011,http://mrswolfgang.edublogs.org/2009/03/24/organic-foods-vsconventional-foods/
4. It’s Easy Being Green: Organic vs. Conventional Foods—the Gloves come off,
Centre for American Progress, retrieved on 30th November 2011,
http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2008/09/organic_green.html
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