This House would create genetically engineered super-fruit

Substantive I: It would put the fear of God into North KoreaI think that we can all agree that Kim Jong-Un has been getting a bit too big for his boots recently. He's been wondering around, trying to turn nation against nation and brother against brother, in a frankly pitiful attempt to elevate his own status and make up for his own lack of self-esteem. Whilst everyone knows that North Korea are not capable of, or willing to, carry out any of the threats they are dangling over our heads; their constant dominance of the headlines and littering the seas with rockets which could've been constructed by a college reject has become an annoyance and a nuisance. So it is clearly time to show NK that the civilised nations of the West are still the boss. Therefore, we create hordes of genetically-engineered super-fruit, with super-powers, and send them flying across the oceans. The sheer bizarreness of this spectacle, flying oranges and mangos emitting lasers, will create ripples of panic and fear throughout the population of NK. The juxtaposition of a fruit, a common and familiar household object, with potentially dangerous super-powers will make the people of North Korea, and Kim Jong-Un in particular, feel unsafe. They will wonder what bizarre crime against plants will be coming next. And thus we will re-assert our dominance. Substantive II: They could be used as a more pleasant means of vaccinationFear of needles, also known as trypanophobia, is extremely common - many people hate needles, and one of the reasons why vaccination rates are low is that injection is the primary means of giving vaccinations. So let's engage in some blue-sky thinking: how could we solve what is clearly a major problem for the world? Give injections through fruit! Assuming that we have the capability to genetically engineer fruit to our will, as provided for by the terms of the resolution, we could create super-fruit that will vaccinate against major diseases when eaten. Fear of fruit is infintely less common than fear of needles, therefore vaccination by fruit is better for humanity than vaccination by needle. Now, I can hear the doubters screaming: "well, why vaccinate by fruit in particular? Why not by chocolate? ". Fruit, however, is better for one's health than, for example, ingesting chocolate. Or ingesting needles for that matter, although that would never be advisable (I'd love to see Opposition refute that point). Therefore, we should genetically engineer super-fruit which can vaccinate against major menaces to humanity, as it will lead to higher uptake rates and this will, in turn, create herd immunity. Substantive III: It would create ORANGE MAYHEMPicture the scene. Humanity is locked into a bitter war that doesn't appear to be ending any time soon. Somewhere on a field, probably in Canada, the world has been divided between two rival trenches. Our side, however, has the genetically-engineered fruit. We throw sacks of bananas over No Man's Land over to our enemies, and they think that at last we are showing them some compassion. What they don't realise is that these bananas are secretly laced with highly explosive materials, which cause the eater to spontaneously combust upon eating the fruit. Those oranges that came over? Secretly bombs. Through the manipulation of a seemingly normal object, we win humanity's greatest war! This is a somewhat far-fetched example, but my point is this: being able to manipulate fruit to do our bidding opens up entirely new avenues of innovation within the secret services and the military. Nobody expects a fruit to be anything other than. .. a fruit. If we were able to genetically alter fruit to have new uses in the military (exploding oranges creating orange mayhem, for example), it would be for the benefit of humanity, along with being almost ironically amusing. Summary of the Second Speech for the PropositionWe have made the first part of our completely impregnable case for the genetic alteration of fruit with super-powers / special qualities and we have demonstrated how these new fruit could be used to alter the balance of global innovation and power for the better. With that I pass you over to Opposition, who will try and make a case for moving society backwards and not forwards.