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AquaBounty is seeking FDA approval for a genetically engineered fish that reaches market weight in half the usual time. Some in the industry are leery.
Genetically engineered salmon under FDA consideration
Seeded on Sun Aug 15, 2010 1:59 PM EDT
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Fears persist about possible health risks from genetically modified food in general, but concerns about bioengineered salmon also extend to the environment.
Farmed salmon are raised in net pens in coastal waters along Washington state, Maine and British Columbia. Most commonly, the fish being raised are Atlantic salmon, and the fear is they'll escape and compete with endangered native stocks. By some estimates, between 400,000 and 1 million Atlantic salmon have escaped into the wild from the 75 or so net-pen operations in British Columbia.
A Purdue University study using a computer model, widely criticized by the biotechnology industry, showed that if 60 transgenic fish bred in a population of 60,000 wild fish, the wild fish would be extinct in 40 generations.
"We've seen assurances in the past from industry and regulators that there won't be catastrophic consequences like the Gulf oil spill," said George Kimbrell, a senior staff attorney for the Center for Food Safety. "We have a cultural amnesia about these things."
If the FDA approves the transgenic salmon, his group would consider litigation to stop it, Kimbrell said.
Read more: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/07/11/97277/fda-nears-approval-of-genetically.html#ixzz0whOctu6n
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#1 - Sun Aug 15, 2010 2:02 PM EDTBy some estimates, between 400,000 and 1 million Atlantic salmon have escaped into the wild from the 75 or so net-pen operations in British Columbia.
OOPS!!!
What the frak???
the wild fish would be extinct in 40 generations.
Oh, well no big deal... ... ... ... ...
If you agree with this I can only hope that you go extinct very soon.
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#2 - Sun Aug 15, 2010 9:19 PM EDTOh my, Gozo. The sanity never ends.
You know, if we modified and genetically engineered Humans, then we wouldn't have to deal with "disease and other problems" as well. (lol)
How dumb of me to think that maybe a better alternative to modifications would be stop what is causing the problems! ;) Interesting find, thank you!
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#3 - Sun Aug 15, 2010 9:43 PM EDTWe have an unsurpassed bounty of nature to call on....I'm just not getting it. If we appreciate and protect our natural resources...we have nothing to worry about.
Your right though..better to make the GMO man instead of the ingredients. Problem is...even the extraterrestrials knew they had to interbreed for molecular change through natural genetics (epigenetics)..not synthetic.
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'insanity' not sanity... oops.
What do you know about interbreeding and extraterrestrials.. or were you joking? (if you prefer not to go off-topic, I understand.) ..The crystal skulls?
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Ok. Thanks for the clarification; I'll watch for any articles if you write them.
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I will pursue the topic on Newsvine...I have allot more to learn.
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Ok, thanks. I hope I notice if you post. I have never researched the subject, so sounds intriguing. I doubt the government would let much out, so that is why I never pursued it.
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I'll see what I can find that might educate and enlighten us...
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Most people don't read labels or care what they are putting into their bodies, hence the McDonalds on almost every corner and the ever increasing rates of obesity. I wouldn't touch this fish let alone eat it.
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#4 - Mon Aug 16, 2010 4:50 PM EDTGMO products are not even allowed in this country that I'm working with, should we choose between two evils to get the lesser one but still an evil? I am totally confused what to do!!!! But Í'd go for the naturalle one to be safe. I think there's nothing wrong with salmon cross-breeding with other fishes, they are all fishes all the same.
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