Paper 2 Topic: Biotechnology

The topic for my second College Writing paper is Biotechnology. Biotechnology is “the manipulation (as through genetic engineering) of living organisms or their components to produce useful usually commercial products” (“Merriam Webster”). The reason I chose this topic is because genetically engineered foods are taking over shelf space in supermarkets and grocery stores. We may think that the apple we eat for breakfast every morning, let's say, was carefully picked by a farmer in a small Bostonian apple orchard. This may have been true years ago but now, over 80% of food in the United States is genetically modified. Another one of the reasons why I wrote about biotech is because I wanted to research the advantages and shortcomings of this new revolutionary technology to broaden my knowledge about the topic.