Comments on: FDA Says Genetically Modified Salmon Is Safe to Eat; Decision Looms

By: Organicchunkysalsa

Organicchunkysalsa — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 18:30:47 +0000

Like other posters above the fact that this company claims that these fish will not be able to reproduce is sheer bollocks. Monsanto made the same claims about it’s genetically modified super crops and now their seeds are growing and cross pollinating with wild plants. Who is to say this company won’t be standing on the shores of lake superior ten years from now checking the fish fishermen are bringing in and charging them for each fish that has their patented DNA?

By: Paul Greenberg

Paul Greenberg — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 14:15:47 +0000

Why are we about to create a 250 million pounds of transgenic salmon while stewarding over the destruction of 250 million pounds of wild salmon:

http://fourfish.org/Chapterone.html
http://www.loe.org/shows/segments.htm?programID=10-P13-00038&segmentID=4

By: B

Tue, 14 Sep 2010 10:24:43 +0000

The FDA probably said ‘yes’ to drilling for oil in the Florida Gulf. And then the disaster happened. Developing native products by careful breeding is one thing, messing around with genetic material in the lab is another. Today it is known that the Florida Gulf oil disaster is the result of slavery – and slavery is the only legal term applicable to what happened in the Gulf. I have confidence that North American salmon are what they want to be. I do not believe that humans have the right to tamper with the genetic code of wildlife for selfish reasons.

By: Bystander

Bystander — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 21:23:04 +0000

Could someone please explain to me what is so terrifying about gm foods? I don’t care about this whole fright on one getting loose into the wild. I want to know what physical harm consuming them would cause. Fact please, not presumption.

By: halucijason

halucijason — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 03:03:06 +0000

Somehow it will get into the wild and then it will mix in with the normal population and then salmon in nature will die off from starvation because of there genetically modifed need for more food causing the complete collapse of the food chain. The price of gm salmon will skyrocket since that is all that will be available from fish farms…but the lack of food (from the collapse of the chain) will cause famines which will cause civil unrest…which will then lead to all out nuclear war in 50 years and it all starts right here. Cause and effect motherf*ckers… lol

By: Jay Fox

Jay Fox — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 17:34:23 +0000

@Gil:
Reread the article. They are adding genetic material from two separate species. This is not something you can get from the selective breeding that has been going on since man first domesticated animals. It is more frankenfood. It should be labelled as such so that those of us who do not wish to participate in this flawed experiment can opt out.

ALL GM FOOD-LIKE SUBSTANCES SHOULD BE LABELED FOR WHAT THEY ARE.

They said GM crops could not escape the fields, and now North Dakota roads are lined with GM canola. Now they try to downplay that by saying that the plants are “weaker” and pose no threat. But they thrive next to the highway. And guess what? They can’t kill ‘em by spraying ’cause they’re engineered to resist the very thing we have to eliminate unwanted growth.

You think no one will take one of these frankenfish and toss it live into the sea? How would you even begin to try to prevent that? It cannot be prevented. These inserted genes WILL end up in wild stocks if this is allowed.

At least there is already a requirement that farmed fish be labeled as such. Time to stop eating ALL farmed fish, if you haven’t already done so.

By: kirk

kirk — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 15:54:44 +0000

There is a glaring “evolutionary unstable strategy” to rapid growth in slow growing salmon – it requires more energy to grow rapidly than to grow slowly. Without Purina Salmon chow in abundance the GM salmon would have no obvious advantage in the wild. Just my opinion, I could be wrong.

By: Angela

Angela — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 15:31:50 +0000

Humans have been modifying animals for thousands of years. All breeds of dogs and cats, and countless other types of animals and plants, have been modified from their original genetic forms by selective breeding. This is just a more technologically advanced form of selection. They could try naturally breeding the Atlantic salmon with the Chinook salmon (if they are compatible- I don’t know) to produce the same always-on growth hormone fish, but it would likely take longer and result in a number of other hybrid salmon with combinations of characteristics. I understand the concern with Frankenfood, but at some point, I think we have to realize that we’ve been tinkering with genetics already and this is just a new way of doing the same thing.

By: Gil

Gil — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 12:22:55 +0000

So it is just producing its own natural growth hormones year round instead of half the year?

Then what are all the people above so mad about? Sounds like they just turned a promotor on 24/7. There won’t be anything different about the fish, and if it did crossbreed with wild salmon I would imagine the offspring would starve due to the metabolic load of constant growth.

By: Ray

Ray — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 11:41:31 +0000

This process seems very tainted. To help pressure the FDA to require labeling please consider joining the Food Bloc page on votingbloc.org. We are asking that all GM Foods be labeled so we can decide for ourselves if we want to eat these products. Here is the link:

http://www.votingbloc.org/Food_Bloc.php