Posted on 11/20/2015 8:56:40 AM PST by w1n1
The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved genetically modified salmon, the first such altered animal allowed for human consumption in the United States.
The Obama administration had stalled in approving the fast-growing salmon for more than five years amid consumer concerns about eating genetically modified foods. But the agency said Thursday the fish is safe to eat.
In announcing the approval, the FDA said that there are "no biologically relevant differences in the nutritional profile of AquAdvantage Salmon compared to that of other farm-raised Atlantic salmon."
AquAdvantage Salmon was created by the Massachusetts-based company AquaBounty. Ron Stotish, the company's CEO, said in a statement that the fish is a "game changer that brings healthy and nutritious food to consumers in an environmentally responsible manner without damaging the ocean and other marine habitats."
The fish grows twice as fast as normal salmon, so it reaches market size more quickly. It 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. Read the rest of the story here.
If it tastes good I’ll eat the hell out of it.
I'm almost ready for lunch...
/johnny
I will only eat it if it has some dolphin meat mixed in with it.
Unbelievable.
Just as my health insurance is NONE of the feds constitutional business, so what I eat is also NONE of the feds constitutional business.
How I hate the FDA, the FCC, the HHS, and the rest of the unconstitutional portion of the federal government.
It’s LEGAL to eat paste in the US.
If it’s better than that pale farm grown crap we get here...I am down for it.
And if it’s less expensive or better bargain.
The larger concern for most modern so called “Frankenfood” isn’t even people’s diets. It’s the impact on the wild. If these super salmon stay in ponds, fine. Bon appetit. But what if someone lets them loose to breed in the wild.
It’s a bad headline. Technically it’s always been legal to eat GMO salmon. What hasn’t been necessarily legal was selling and serving it for human consumption.
I’d think the intent would be to farm grow it, rather than letting it get into the wild. You can get redder farm salmon by putting natural color into its feed but the product is supposed to be labeled as “artificially colored.”
“How I hate the FDA, the FCC, the HHS, and the rest of the unconstitutional portion of the federal government.”
I think you are wrong about the FDA.
The government constitutionally is tasked with ensuring safety and security.
The FDA serves one of the few legitimate constitutional roles that the government does today.
If one wants to address corruption or abuse relating to the FDA, that is fair, but us a separate issue than its constitutionality.
Yes, and it’s so good for you that it’s important that it never be labeled as such. We wouldn’t want Mr. and Mrs. consumer to get the idea that they can make their own decisions about what to eat, now. Eat up, children.
Somehow, a line of excess has been crossed between the place where it was not illegal to sell deathly poisonous spoiled olives (though one could get sued), and this. It is the country’s fault for letting “those who meddle with us for ‘our own good’” have the helm. Just because you SAY you are going to be a watchdog, doesn’t mean you aren’t a wolf....
Yeah it’s fine. Just don’t make us label it.
Sounds fair enough, but try to get something reasonable through this “liberal” charged political situation today.
Thanks for letting us know. I try not to eat GMO foods.
That's an overbroad statement, and it matches the FDAs overbroad actions.
Uh, I think it’s always been legal to eat. Just not legal to sell until recently.
“The larger concern for most modern so called “Frankenfood” isn’t even people’s diets. It’s the impact on the wild. If these super salmon stay in ponds, fine. Bon appetit. But what if someone lets them loose to breed in the wild.”
That’s interesting in that determining safety in this regard would seem to go beyond the scope of the FDA which is to determine safety in people.
Is it the USDA that determines that? Or EPA?
Exactly. What people don't realize is that what this is about is that the FDA has ruled that this GMO salmon doesn't have to be labels AS GMO salmon.
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