FDA to consider approval of modified salmon !

[Bravo Zulu]

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Tinker with the genetics of salmon and maybe you create a revolutionary new food source that could help the environment and feed the hungry.

Or maybe you're creating what some say is an untested "frankenfish" that could cause unknown allergic reactions and the eventual decimation of the wild salmon population.

The Food and Drug Administration hears both arguments Monday when it begins a two-day meeting on whether to approve the marketing of the genetically engineered fish, which would be the first such animal approved for human consumption. The agency has already said the salmon, which grows twice as fast as conventional salmon, is as safe to eat as the traditional variety.

Approval of the salmon would open the door for a variety of other genetically engineered animals, including an environmentally friendly pig that is being developed in Canada or cattle that are resistant to mad cow disease.

"For future applications out there the sky's the limit," said David Edwards of the Biotechnology Industry Association. "If you can imagine it, scientists can try to do it."

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[smalll]

1. "...help the environment and feed the hungry." -- thanks be to God! --

Does America by and large eat enough fish? No.

Does America by and large have the economic wherewithal generally to buy fish, willy-nilly? No.

So I welcome this development. Maybe more Americans will be able to afford it now.


Sorry, I'm not so concerned that the hoi polloi will be able, with this, to horn in on the choices of the latte liberal upper-middle-class foodie contingent. Also sorry it so grinds their gears that the average man might actually be able to afford it. No sorry, honestly, it doesn't grind my gears: in fact, I take great pleasure in the fact that it grinds theirs.

[Hannah Bell]

3. it won't "help the environment". farmed fish pollute & destroy native stocks.

nor will it "help feed the hungry". there's enough food produced already to feed everyone on the planet enough to get fat, & still the hungry go unfed.

[SpiralHawk]

6. Very smalll minded to support corporate mutant onslaught against nature

and attempt to cloak it in your alleged 'concern' for the 'hoi polloi.'

Thin mind gruel.

[Motown_Johnny]

2. or maybe you will be creating a "DracenFish" that will leap out of the water to suck your blood

Or maybe a "MummyFish" that will swim around covered in bandages and mindlessly assault everyone in it's path


Perhaps it will be something that turns into a Dogfish when the moon is full



Or maybe it is just a fish

[RandomThoughts]

4. Mindlessly assult anyone in your path?

That is not thinking nor feeling, think deep and feel.

Move a direction, anyone in front of you not moving, or not correcting things, bring them along or knock them down.

Doesn't sound to complicated.

Anyone got any other ideas?

[nosmokes]

5. we need GE salmon like salmon need a bicycle...

apologies to (gloria<irene)