Speech Writing Assignment

Recently, I was tasked to write an persuasive speech to my fellow schoolmates as the audience, and as for the topic, it could be anything that would be reasonable to be targeted at students. After some time of brainstorming, I decided to come up with a speech to persuade my fellow schoolmates to stop eating fast food. However, even though it is my speech, it is still quite ironic, as I still indeed do eat fast food. However, I after considering what I wrote, I made it a point to cut down on fast food. Here is my speech, and please do enjoy it and feel free to leave comments!

3 minute Speech:

Good day, my fellow schoolmates. I come to you today, to persuade you to with an interesting yet disheartening speech, which is, for everyone to stop eating fast food from today onwards.

I know that all those who know me well will be shocked by this as I am a big fan of McDonald’s and KFC myself, and there is not a week which I do not enjoy tucking into savoury burgers. Yes, I understand perfectly, fast food is used as an option to save time, or satisfy our taste bud cravings, but what about problems concerning health? Yes, please do hear me out, and I will be sure you will be convinced why you should cut down or stop eating fast food when I am done. I believe many fellow Hwachongians often eat to their heart’s content in McDonald’s at the nearby King Albert Park. Now, I would like to ask, who does not love the crispy yet tender chicken burgers?

Why the sudden drastic change in me? Well, my eldest cousin had a stint at McDonald’s during the first few months this year to earn some pocket money. He saw with disgust the process of how fast food was made and took pictures to show me. Do you know the amount of oil, salt, and calories a small pack of fries contains? Each sack of pre-cut fries are emptied out into a blistering pot of oil, and then the greasy flotsam is then filtered and put into small packets.

My cousin does not dare eat them and when I ask him why, he said that he do not want to die fat and young. Studies show that the amount of oil and salt in a simple burger or fried chicken is outrageously excessive. They also contain chemicals which are growth boosters for chicken so that more meat can be produced to increase productivity of the poultry industry. And mind you, these toxins contain high amounts of synthetic estrogen, which I am sure many would not like to take in into your bodies. Furthermore, the oil that goes down your throat will clog up your arteries, and you will face heart problems if you carry on devouring this appetising yet deadly fast food. These toxins do not go off easily, but even though you will not of course, feel the effects now, trust me, you will when you are in your 20s-30s, when you start having illnesses for eating unhealthily in your youth.

To wrap things up, there is no benefit of eating fast food that can outweigh its bad effects. Save time? No, I would rather spend a few more minutes getting healthy food such as salad than constantly going to doctors due to health problems in the future and then regretting. Listen, it’s not as hard as it seems, even though many of you are so used to eating fast food and love it so much! As long as you promise yourself to eat healthy, it is achievable! Look, if I can do it, so can you! Thank you! I hope you will reconsider before making your next trip to a fast food outlet from now onwards.