FDA quietly pushes through genetically modified salmon over christmas break

[xchrom]

http://www.nationofchange.org/fda-quietly-pushes-through-genetically-modified-salmon-over-christmas-break-1356625080

While you were likely resting or enjoying time with friends and family over the Christmas break, the United States Food and Drug Administration was hard at work ramming through genetically modified salmon towards the final acceptance process. Despite the frankenfish actually being blocked by Congress last year over serious health and environmental concerns, the FDA is making a massive push to release the genetically modified salmon into the world as the FDA-backed biotech giant and creator of the fish AquaAdvantage screams for profits.

These fish of course threaten the very genetic integrity of the food chain when considering the fact that they will ultimately be unleashed into waters with other salmon and likely even the ocean at large. The AquaAdvantage genetically modified salmon have been engineered through genetic manipulation to grow double the size and weight of the average salmon. Hitting 24 inches instead of 13 and weighing in at 6.6 pounds instead of 2.8, the GM fish contains both a gene from another salmon known as the Pacific Chinook as well as an eel-like fish.

This unnatural genetic infusion allows the fish to generate a growth hormone 24/7, making it a massively mutated ball of growth hormones and disease.

[roody]

1. Yuck---time to be a vegetarian

[NoOneMan]

2. Or just eat meat you kill yourself

[Nihil]

3. Change you can believe in

> Despite the frankenfish actually being blocked by Congress last year over serious health
> and environmental concerns, the FDA is making a massive push to release the genetically
> modified salmon into the world as the FDA-backed biotech giant and creator of the fish
> AquaAdvantage screams for profits.

Hope & change? Smoke & mirrors ...