GMO 'Frankenfish' salmon....

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[h=1]GMO 'Frankenfish' salmon could be in stores as early as next year, as FDA lifts import ban....[/h]Genetically engineered salmon is swimming your way.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is now allowing this kind of fish, whose DNA has been altered to speed up growth, and its eggs into the U.S.The announcement means that AquaBounty Technologies may import AquAdvantage Salmon eggs to its facility near Albany, Indiana, where the fish grow faster than traditional Atlantic salmon.AquAdvantage Salmon could hit store shelves by 2020, said the company. It declined to discuss what the cost will be."We will sell our salmon at market prices, so it is too far away to know what that will be. We will not sell at a discount," AquaBounty said.
"Approximately 350,000 tons of Atlantic salmon are consumed in the United States with more than 95 percent of it imported," AquaBounty said in a statement. "FDA’s actions will allow for production and sale to begin here in the U.S., bringing opportunity for investment in rural America, creating American jobs, while also reducing dependence on seafood imports." read on.....

https://www.usatoday.com/story/mone...sh-salmon-could-hit-store-shelves-early-next-
year/3134439002/

(Is this a good thing or bad? - I love salmon)

 

[RadishRose]

I heard about this a few days ago, too. I don't know what to think.

Like many of us I also love salmon, but I love other fish too, some even more than salmon. People on the salmon-wagon might be well advised to break out of the trend and try something new once in awhile.

 

[Uptosnuff]

This is BAD. When the FDA requested public comment about this a few years back, I wrote in along with hundreds of others on the dangers of genetically engineered fish. If these frankenfish ever get out into the general population of salmon, they will overtake it and eventually extinguish "natural" fish. There will be no going back. All for a company to make money. The FDA does not safeguard the people of the US. It has turned into a rubber stamp for big business. Do you know that the FDA does not conduct their own trials? They rely on the test results of the COMPANIES that are applying for approval.

 

[Keesha]

It IS bad.

 

[SeaBreeze]

This is BAD. When the FDA requested public comment about this a few years back, I wrote in along with hundreds of others on the dangers of genetically engineered fish. If these frankenfish ever get out into the general population of salmon, they will overtake it and eventually extinguish "natural" fish. There will be no going back. All for a company to make money. The FDA does not safeguard the people of the US. It has turned into a rubber stamp for big business. Do you know that the FDA does not conduct their own trials? They rely on the test results of the COMPANIES that are applying for approval.

I agree, I don't see anything good about it for human health, the fish involved or the environment. It's very unnatural and I won't eat it if I can identify it, not crazy about the idea of anything being genetically modified. Full article HERE.

The creation of GE salmon is anything but natural. For the last 13 generations of AquaBounty salmon, dating back to a single GE fish from 1992, every fish carries a copy of the "mutant" gene set that leads to the supergrowth and is passed down to the next generation. As such, gene splicing doesn't take place at every AquaBounty facility, although intense breeding of the GE fish does. Martin explained:[SUP]3

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"At spawning time, conventional females are milked of their eggs by hand, a method that requires two fish wranglers per female — one to handle the fish and another to hold the container that collects the eggs.

The technicians use the same squeeze technique to extract semen, or 'milt,' from the males … When combined, the eggs and milt produce fertilized eggs.


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The technicians place the developing embryos in a stainless-steel tube where they are subjected to high pressure. This renders all the embryos' cells triploid, meaning they have three sets of chromosomes instead of two, which makes the fish incapable of reproducing …


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After a period of incubation at the Bay Fortune hatchery [on Prince Edward Island, Canada], the sterile, all-female transgenic embryos are flown to a rearing facility in the highlands of Panama, where the resulting salmon are grown to maturity before being reimported into Canada …


As such, no one knows what future expansion could mean for the marine environment. A lawsuit led by the Center for Food Safety, and joined by U.S. tribes in the Pacific Northwest, including the Quinault Indian Nation, is challenging the FDA's approval of AquaBounty's salmon, alleging the agency "has not adequately assessed the full range of potentially significant environmental and ecological effects presented by the AquaBounty application."[SUP]7

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The lawsuit is pending, but for now the FDA continues to maintain that AquaBounty's salmon "is as safe to eat as any nongenetically engineered … Atlantic salmon, and also as nutritious."[SUP]8[/SUP] They also state the approval "would not have a significant impact on the environment of the United States," but the Center for Food Safety sees it differently, stating:[SUP]9

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"Salmon is a keystone species and unique runs have been treasured by residents for thousands of years. Diverse salmon runs today sustain thousands of American fishing families, and are highly valued in domestic markets as a healthy, domestic, 'green' food.


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When GE salmon escape or are accidentally released into the environment, the new species could threaten wild populations by mating with endangered salmon species, outcompeting them for scarce resources and habitat, and/or introducing new diseases.

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Studies have shown that there is a high risk for GE organisms to escape into the natural environment, and that GE salmon can crossbreed with native fish.

Transgenic contamination has become common in the GE plant context, where contamination episodes have cost U.S. farmers billions of dollars over the past decade.

In wild organisms like fish, it could be even more damaging."

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[PopsnTuff]

This is BAD. When the FDA requested public comment about this a few years back, I wrote in along with hundreds of others on the dangers of genetically engineered fish. If these frankenfish ever get out into the general population of salmon, they will overtake it and eventually extinguish "natural" fish. There will be no going back. All for a company to make money. The FDA does not safeguard the people of the US. It has turned into a rubber stamp for big business. Do you know that the FDA does not conduct their own trials? They rely on the test results of the COMPANIES that are applying for approval.

Thanks for sharing that Uptostuff and Seabreeze....this is not good news....

 

[Linda]

I hate anyone messing with any of our fish. I don't even like the idea of the farm raised fish they are planting in our lakes and rivers now. I've heard a lot of disgusting things about what they are fed.