VickiLynn
Lovin' The Homestead
Apparently, while we were focusing on avoiding GE plants in our food supply, someone has been messing with our fish.
http://ge-fish.org/
http://ge-fish.org/
Genetically Modified Salmon?!?
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dacjohns
Our Frustrated Curmudgeon
Not sure how valid the story is. True or not I think we are better off sticking to wild caught fish. Too many potential problems with "farm" raised fish, especially salmon.
Rebecka
Lovin' The Homestead
Please look this over. Its not just about salmon but about the 'standard' regulations.. its serious folks.. http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/gm_salmon/index2.html?rc=hlinko_20100914_salmon_ad3
Wifezilla
Low-Carb Queen - RIP: 1963-2021
If people want to eat genetically modified foods, fine. But why can't we KNOW what we are buying???
"As the Food and Drug Administration considers whether to approve genetically modified salmon, one thing seems certain: Shoppers staring at fillets in the seafood department will find it tough to pick out the conventional fish from the one created with genes from another species.
Despite a growing public demand for more information about how food is produced, that won't happen with the salmon because of idiosyncracies embedded in federal regulations.
The FDA says it cannot require a label on the genetically modified food once it determines that the altered fish is not "materially" different from other salmon - something agency scientists have said is true.
Perhaps more surprising, conventional food makers say the FDA has made it difficult for them to boast that their products do not contain genetically modified ingredients.
The labeling question has emerged as the FDA determines whether to approve the fish, an Atlantic salmon known as AquAdvantage that grows twice as fast as its natural counterpart. The decision carries great weight because, while genetically modified agriculture has been permitted for years and engineered crops are widely used in processed foods, this would be the first modified animal allowed for human consumption in the United States.The AquAdvantage salmon has been given a gene from the ocean pout, an eel-like fish, and a growth hormone from a Chinook salmon. "
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/18/AR2010091803520.html
"As the Food and Drug Administration considers whether to approve genetically modified salmon, one thing seems certain: Shoppers staring at fillets in the seafood department will find it tough to pick out the conventional fish from the one created with genes from another species.
Despite a growing public demand for more information about how food is produced, that won't happen with the salmon because of idiosyncracies embedded in federal regulations.
The FDA says it cannot require a label on the genetically modified food once it determines that the altered fish is not "materially" different from other salmon - something agency scientists have said is true.
Perhaps more surprising, conventional food makers say the FDA has made it difficult for them to boast that their products do not contain genetically modified ingredients.
The labeling question has emerged as the FDA determines whether to approve the fish, an Atlantic salmon known as AquAdvantage that grows twice as fast as its natural counterpart. The decision carries great weight because, while genetically modified agriculture has been permitted for years and engineered crops are widely used in processed foods, this would be the first modified animal allowed for human consumption in the United States.The AquAdvantage salmon has been given a gene from the ocean pout, an eel-like fish, and a growth hormone from a Chinook salmon. "
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/18/AR2010091803520.html
Buster
Lovin' The Homestead
I'm not fine with genetically modified animals at all, especially ones that could easily escape. Seiously, they are talking about keeping them in tanks far away from the areas where wild salmon, but factory farms don't exactly have great track records on the environment.
The bottom line is all that matters to them in the end. Just a matter of time before these things escape and begin to poison the gene pool.
FDA does a smart thing on the antibiotics in meat, then does something to make things even worse. Any doubt in anyone's mind GM cattle, pigs, and birds are next?
The bottom line is all that matters to them in the end. Just a matter of time before these things escape and begin to poison the gene pool.
FDA does a smart thing on the antibiotics in meat, then does something to make things even worse. Any doubt in anyone's mind GM cattle, pigs, and birds are next?
Farmfresh
City Biddy
Well apparently pigs are already in the works!! Monsanto pig patent
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