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AquaBounty: Man-made salmon-like fish clears last FDA approval hurdle- Yum, Frankenfish! | |
| wisc_natureboy Offer Upgrade  User ID: 28859998  United States12/22/2012 11:13 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
| amachiavellian User ID: 20940257  Canada12/22/2012 11:15 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I just see all sorts of good things coming from this. /Sarcasm off Quoting: wisc_natureboy --- "On Friday, the US Food and Drug Administration released an environmental assessment report regarding a salmon-hybrid developed in the laboratories of AquaBounty. The FDA must wait two months before they make final their decision regarding the fate of the frankenfish, but through their study they have determined that the genetically engineered animal, the “AquAdvantage,” is safe enough to be sold. The fish, a hybrid of the Pacific Chinook salmon and a ray-finned creature called the eelpout, is engineered to grow twice as normal as traditional salmon. Once the frankenfish is approved for good, AquaBounty will be able to offer meatier fish able to feed more people. ... “This is a radical new technology. We need very good, careful, close regulation, and we just don't have that. We can't be assured of the safety of any of these genetically engineered organisms,” he said." [link to rt.com] Um. Yeah. NO. Nice find. Five Stars  — read for knowledge, not answers. |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 27352798 United States12/22/2012 11:29 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | We can only hope that they will run out of money: <<< Developing the frankenfish has so far cost AquaBounty nearly two decades of research and tens of millions of dollars. Only weeks ago, though, the very fate of the fish was put at risk. While awaiting news from the FDA in early December, AquaBounty CEO Ron Stotish told the Associated Press that length delays had nearly drained the company from all their money. "It's threatening our very survival," Stotish told the AP. "We only have enough money to survive until January 2013, so we have to raise more. But the unexplained delay has made raising money very difficult." >>> GENETICALLY ENGINEERED FOOD IS SLOW DEATH |
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| amachiavellian User ID: 20940257 Canada12/22/2012 11:42 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Glad to see this pinned. Watch your salmon buying in the near future I guess. Is there a Monsanto/AquaBounty connection? [link to www.aquabounty.com] — read for knowledge, not answers. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 27352798 United States12/22/2012 11:42 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | They've spliced a unclean fish (eelpout) with a clean one Quoting: Anonymous Coward 30641050 (salmon). I wonder why? << The AquaAdvantage salmon has an added growth hormone from the Pacific Chinook salmon that allows the fish to produce growth hormone all year long. The engineers were able to keep the hormone active by using another gene from an eel-like fish called an ocean pout that acts like an “on” switch for the hormone. Typical Atlantic salmon produce the growth hormone for only part of the year. >> [link to myfox8.com] |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 27352798 United States12/22/2012 11:52 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | This is disgusting, I doubt they will have to label the fish either. Maybe its finally time to just go vegetarian. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 961432 So then you had better stay away from corn, soy, tomatoes, canola oil, potatoes, flax, papaya, squash, sugar beets, rice, dairy products from animals fed with GM grain, well, you might as well just stop eating. My solution is to eat organic. It's very expensive but cheaper than being chronically sick. (Did you know that the cafeteria at Monsanto headquarters serves only ORGANIC food??) You could also grow your own food, or some of it, using heirloom seed. Buy organic grains in bulk. Cook with coconut oil. You can also find some foods at the dollar stores that are imported from Europe (which does not allow gmo's). |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 30621000 United States12/22/2012 11:59 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | If you're going by the biblical food laws in Leviticus, salmon is NOT clean! It has skin instead of scales. Quoting: Hahahahaa 28872856 Salmon have scales. Small, but they got 'em. Those f**kers have teeth, too. I tried to feed one of them at the hatchery a cracker once, and it nearly took my hand off. Never under estimate the dangers of the wiley salmon. salmon scales: [link to emeraldislandphotography.com] |
| 7.83Hz User ID: 30133877  Australia12/22/2012 12:07 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I just see all sorts of good things coming from this. /Sarcasm off Quoting: wisc_natureboy --- "On Friday, the US Food and Drug Administration released an environmental assessment report regarding a salmon-hybrid developed in the laboratories of AquaBounty. The FDA must wait two months before they make final their decision regarding the fate of the frankenfish, but through their study they have determined that the genetically engineered animal, the “AquAdvantage,” is safe enough to be sold. The fish, a hybrid of the Pacific Chinook salmon and a ray-finned creature called the eelpout, is engineered to grow twice as normal as traditional salmon. Once the frankenfish is approved for good, AquaBounty will be able to offer meatier fish able to feed more people. ... “This is a radical new technology. We need very good, careful, close regulation, and we just don't have that. We can't be assured of the safety of any of these genetically engineered organisms,” he said." [link to rt.com] What the fuck does that even mean? Anything in life worth doing is worth overdoing. Moderation's for cowards. |
| amachiavellian User ID: 20940257 Canada12/22/2012 12:11 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I just see all sorts of good things coming from this. /Sarcasm off Quoting: wisc_natureboy --- "On Friday, the US Food and Drug Administration released an environmental assessment report regarding a salmon-hybrid developed in the laboratories of AquaBounty. The FDA must wait two months before they make final their decision regarding the fate of the frankenfish, but through their study they have determined that the genetically engineered animal, the “AquAdvantage,” is safe enough to be sold. The fish, a hybrid of the Pacific Chinook salmon and a ray-finned creature called the eelpout, is engineered to grow twice as normal as traditional salmon. Once the frankenfish is approved for good, AquaBounty will be able to offer meatier fish able to feed more people. ... “This is a radical new technology. We need very good, careful, close regulation, and we just don't have that. We can't be assured of the safety of any of these genetically engineered organisms,” he said." [link to rt.com] What the fuck does that even mean? Means they don't really know what could happen; but fuck it. It's FDA Approved! Let's sell it! — read for knowledge, not answers. |
| SuperManny User ID: 28757336 United States12/22/2012 12:12 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | "On Friday, the US Food and Drug Administration released an environmental assessment report regarding a salmon-hybrid developed in the laboratories of AquaBounty. The FDA must wait two months before they make final their decision regarding the fate of the frankenfish, but through their study they have determined that the genetically engineered animal, the “AquAdvantage,” is safe enough to be sold. Quoting: wisc_natureboy  I have an excellent idea! If they wanna approve this frankenfood... FINE! But they have to eat one serving every day for at least a year! The greatest gift you can give anyone is the example of your own life working. -Orin |
| 7.83Hz User ID: 30133877 Australia12/22/2012 12:22 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The FDA must wait two months before they make final their decision regarding the fate of the frankenfish, but through their study they have determined that the genetically engineered animal, the “AquAdvantage,” is safe enough to be sold. Quoting: wisc_natureboy - see what they did there? Don't worry, you wont die selling it, just don't eat it. The fish, a hybrid of the Pacific Chinook salmon and a ray-finned creature called the eelpout, is engineered to grow twice as normal as traditional salmon. Once the frankenfish is approved for good, AquaBounty will be able to offer meatier fish able to feed more people. - This is just plain retarded [link to rt.com] What the fuck does that even mean? Means they don't really know what could happen; but fuck it. It's FDA Approved! Let's sell it! The fish is actually a Japanese Salmon, bulk washed up after Fukushima. Playing it off as a hybrid lol. Last Edited by CYBERDELIK on 12/22/2012 12:23 PM Anything in life worth doing is worth overdoing. Moderation's for cowards. |
| Esoteric Morgan ...in awe of many things User ID: 26943919 United States12/22/2012 12:27 PM  Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Eating anything genetically-modified to double growth cannot be a sound practice. Look at the debacle created by the cross-pollination of GM crops to non-GM crops; has science NOT learned anything from this? Then there's the growth-hormone issue. Have we not learned anything about the use of growth-hormones in food...first exposed by Geraldo Rivera some 50 years ago? ================ Well, I don't eat fish anymore, anyway. Too much mercury, too much radiation...there's no way to really know what you're getting. We are heading towards a time when NO FOOD is safe, organic or otherwise. THAT is what modern 'science' has done for humanity. It's a conundrum, which consumers cannot do anything about. -- TRUST THE PLAN -- .......WWG1WGA...... ____________________________ still in awe of many things |
| KimmieAnnaJones User ID: 29948442 United States12/22/2012 12:29 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | So let me guess.....They will/have patented the fish that will sneak out into open waters and mate with other fish. Then they will claim ownership of all the fishies in the waters. That is the least of our worries on this one. "Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty, who was, and is, and is to come." - I AM Vote for people that have a track record for loving your Constitution or lose your country forever!!! Put down the damn touchy feely koolaid and WAKE THE FUCK UP!!!! :militia: |
| Moonlight Rambler User ID: 30559533 United Kingdom12/22/2012 12:29 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | It does make me wonder if the radiation in the oceans and the frankenfish have any connection. Kill off the natural fish with radiation and then replace with frankenfish that probably have all kinds of dangerous things waiting for human consumption. Just another day in the wonderful world eh! We live in a world where our life given rights are violated daily by those that make the laws You can only see Heaven and Hell when you're alive The TV doesn't entertain you, it distracts you from reality in the form of entertainment |
| Duk3 Nuk3m 3h User ID: 28555024 Canada12/22/2012 12:29 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | If you're going by the biblical food laws in Leviticus, salmon is NOT clean! It has skin instead of scales. Quoting: Hahahahaa 28872856 Salmon have scales. Small, but they got 'em. Those f**kers have teeth, too. I tried to feed one of them at the hatchery a cracker once, and it nearly took my hand off. Never under estimate the dangers of the wiley salmon. salmon scales: [link to emeraldislandphotography.com] I got bit trying to pet a wild canadian goose. Its okay it under estimate wild canadian geese. |
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| 7.83Hz User ID: 30133877 Australia12/22/2012 12:35 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | This is disgusting, I doubt they will have to label the fish either. Maybe its finally time to just go vegetarian. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 961432 What with mad cow & the dairy-puss-blood industry, I think vegan would be a better choice. It's too hard for people... Anything in life worth doing is worth overdoing. Moderation's for cowards. |
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| Red Harvest User ID: 14185604 United States12/22/2012 12:48 PM  Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | This has all the plot elements for a bad Syfy Channel movie. The fish is genetically modified with a Gene from another Salmon and a Gene from a eelpout. Both Growth genes, so the fish achieve a massive size in a very little amount of time. Last Edited by Red Harvest on 12/22/2012 12:50 PM “Phantoms fill the skies around you.” |
