The timing seems right…
The FDA currently is reviewing the safety of AquaBounty’s biotech salmon, called AquAdvantage, that grows faster than natural Atlantic salmon. The biotech fish could reach the market in about a year and would be the first bioengineered animal available for human consumption once it gains approval.
Goes with… budweiser? (I figure something i don’t want to eat, with something i don’t want to drink)
If it’s not wild Chinook, it’s not salmon!
These “farmed” fish are the scourge of the ocean
Tuna “farming” is the absolute worse.
Take an entire school, net it up, fatten and bring to market…whats the harm?
Well, besides the bio harm (picture a thousand tuna crapping in the same place every day for months) they take a year class of fish that imprint (similar to salmon) out of the gene pool… forever.
Perhaps they can just use the bio-engineered salmon to make vodka.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100629/ap_on_bi_ge/us_salmon_vodka
Well, if you can get everyone to try it just once… $$$
And I guess the mutant DNA doesn’t get into our systems that way either.
I think the jury will be out on this one for a while.
AMEN to that!
Farm raised salmon is bad enough…now bioengineered too? And like bioengineered vegetables, they will likely not be required to identify it as such?
I envy you west-coasters…here in the east farm raised Atlantic salmon is prevalent (and tasteless, and nutritionally deficient besides) and wild Atlantic salmon is all but extinct.
Love that Chinook or Sockeye when I can get it!!!.
Farm raised salmon = garbage. Bioengineered farm raised salmon = fast growing garbage…
It’s already in. Yuck.
LINK
FDA Panel Unable to Reach Conclusion on Genetically Modified Salmon
Public Hearing Concludes, No Vote or Recommendation by FDA
LINK 2
FDA Panel Supportive of Gene-Altered Salmon, but More Research Needed
Talk about your genetic deficiencies…
Is salmon pickin’ a banjo next?
Eat GE salmon and end up like the banjo player in Deliverance!
Don’t fool with Mother Nature…
Count me out. The farm-raised stuff is bad enough. Every time we go messing with nature, there seem to be “unforeseen” consequences, both direct and collateral.
Sure but how many years did they sell us the color added farm raised junk before they told us? Someone is going to decide there is no significant difference between natural and frankenfish and therefore they don’t have to tell you. Follow the $$$.
As I said previously…
The article I read about these salmon on CNN also mentioned that genetically engineered organisms have been used for some time in brewing. Unfortunately, I can’t seem to find it again.
There’s a short comment in this article, with no references to back it up:
But there are some breweries who use GM corn in their beer.
We have been eatting GMO foods since the 90s.
There’s no alternative in most of those cases. Also, they don’t make it quite as public as this salmon thing.
copyright/patenting food is crap IMO. All they have to do is crate an invasive species, that drowns out the natural animal/plant and next thing you know… monopoly.
Genetically modified foods can be very good, and very bad, depending on the circumstances. I view it as morally neutral on the whole. Centuries ago the idea of selective breeding and splicing to create new varietals, new fruits, more disease resistant crops, etc., probably seemed unnatural to some. In another few centuries genetically modified food will seem old hat and uncontroversial and there will be some other cause celebre for the world’s richest and best-fed people groups to get their dander up about.
That is, unless the Great Prophet Zarquon returns first!!
I agree, the farm raised fish are way too oily and taste like crap. I have had farmed shell fish though and they were pretty good (clams and Chinocoteague oysters)