Hungry for Genetically Engineered Fish?

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A major U.S. fish research company has tampered with the DNA of Atlantic salmon by adding a quick-growth gene that allows the fish to eat year-around and grow more quickly. And the Food and Drug Administration is about to allow these genetically engineered salmon to head to market, the company says.

But food safety activists insist that the FDA doesn't have adequate tests and regulations to ensure the safety of modified seafood, and others question whether consumers are even ready for it.

An AquaBounty salmon rests in a tank behind a standard salmon that is the same age.
"Far from being a benefit to consumers or the environment, this merely allows factory fish farms to double production rates," said George Kimbrell, senior attorney for the Center for Food Safety.

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The fish would be the first transgenic animal application ever approved by the the FDA, according to the company, which has been developing the product and waiting for approval for 20 years.

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But AquaBounty says FDA cannot legally obligate the fish producer to label the product as anything other than Atlantic salmon. Anything else is voluntary.
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not for me, they can keep their engineered fish

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Damned things should have warning labels on them.

[ensho]

3. agree - the same with modified food

nt

[nyc 4 Biden]

7. i dont think people would care.

look at all the names of the ingredients listed on the sides of almost all the foods we eat. sounds like a freakin science experiment and no one cares.

eta: i do agree this should all be labeled. im just not sure of the public's attention to such things.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

2. Sure.

I've never heard a good reason why not.

[Ozymanithrax]

4. Sounds delicious... n/t

[MadHound]

5. Nah, I want some of that radioactive wild boar they've got in Germany

I actually thought of you when I saw this.
<http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8888169>

[ensho]

8. its nice to be thought about - thanks for the link, I r&r

radiation accumulates

[LWolf]

6. NO. nt

[Igel]

9. What's the nutritional value? Is it different from wild caught?

Of course, the downside to having fast-growing GMO fish is that it would reduce pressure on wild stocks of the fish and possibly even reduce demand for red meat. Can't have either of those, right?

(Yes, it would also increase organic waste going into near-shore waters and help produce both algal blooms and dead zones. The environment is a complex system.)