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It's Legal to Eat Genetically Modified Salmon in the U.S.
Cal Sportsman ^ | 11/20/2015 | A Press

Posted on 11/20/2015 8:56:40 AM PST by w1n1

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To: gattaca

Wild caught would avoid this, but some foods can only be farmed (when was the last time you ate wild caught beef?)


21 posted on 11/20/2015 9:15:59 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Talisker

The product should be labeled.
Just like farm raised salmon, which I avoid.


22 posted on 11/20/2015 9:16:12 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: w1n1

FRANKENFISH

23 posted on 11/20/2015 9:17:13 AM PST by seawolf101
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To: Talisker

Exactly. Let the market decide. If it is bad, the business will fail. Gubmint shouldn’t be picking winners and losers. If you don’t like poison, don’t eat it.


24 posted on 11/20/2015 9:17:40 AM PST by sagar
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To: Talisker

Seems our government now keeps veering between venality and silly “liberal” panic.


25 posted on 11/20/2015 9:17:44 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: w1n1

As long as it doesn’t make them smarter. We’ve got salmon pens near our place and when the sea lions manage to open up a hole we get these fish swimming right up to the boat ramp expecting lunch. What they get is a net.


26 posted on 11/20/2015 9:17:49 AM PST by moehoward
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To: AustinBill

“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.”

This is the liberal left nanny-state view. The view that adds laws and regulations when unnecessary, usually for ulterior reasons, political or economic etc...

Non-GMO food producers can label their food as non-GMO.

If you don’t want to buy GM food, buy food that is not GM.

Problem solved.


27 posted on 11/20/2015 9:20:19 AM PST by ifinnegan
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To: keat

“If it tastes good I’ll eat the hell out of it.”

That is right. If it taste like most food sold to day; probably not.
I haven’t had a decent tomato in 30 years. A friend tells me it is because they pick them too early and not longer use enough cow manure.
If true, they are picked while still in bloom and are using cat shit for fertilizer.


28 posted on 11/20/2015 9:21:37 AM PST by Tupelo (Honest men go to Washington, but honest men do not stay in Washington.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

As so often happens the cure is worse that the disease. On some level verifying the stuff being sold as food and medicine isn’t outright poison is a good thing. Unfortunately everything we do is done by people, fallible, grumpy, avarous people with all the problems that implies.


29 posted on 11/20/2015 9:21:39 AM PST by discostu (Up-Up-Down-Down-Left-Right-Left-Right B, A, Start)
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To: w1n1

I don’t have a problem with FrankenFoods, just so long as they are labeled as such. I would also appreciate the label indicate the country of origin, for obvious reasons.


30 posted on 11/20/2015 9:23:21 AM PST by SharpRightTurn (White, black, and red all over--America's affirmative action, metrosexual president.)
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To: ifinnegan
Is it the USDA that determines that? Or EPA?

The Center for Food Safety and Nutrition is part of the FDA. They are the organization that tests and monitors food for human consumption, including the imports.

31 posted on 11/20/2015 9:26:51 AM PST by OldMissileer (Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
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To: OldMissileer

Yes but you missed the question which is not food safety and nutrition but potential affect on the environment which is separate from Safety in humans and nutrition of food.

See the post I had responded to.


32 posted on 11/20/2015 9:45:38 AM PST by ifinnegan
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

So do I. I like to know what I’m eating. I get my beef from neighbor, grow my own veggies, and eat wild salmon. I avoid anything with the word China on the label.


33 posted on 11/20/2015 9:49:43 AM PST by gattaca (Republicans believe every day is July 4, democrats believe every day is April 15. Ronald Reagan)
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To: discostu

“On some level verifying the stuff being sold as food and medicine isn’t outright poison is a good thing. “

It is a very good thing. And there was a lot of outright poison being sold as medicine or health enhancers which is why the FDA was formed in the first place.

This is one of the legitimate roles of government, unlike social engineering, wealth distribution etc...


34 posted on 11/20/2015 9:50:16 AM PST by ifinnegan
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To: HiTech RedNeck

The states, localities and the open market are the ones to deal with this stuff and would do a much better job. And no matter how much federal tyranny you allow, they still wouldn’t stop someone letting them loose to breed in the wild.


35 posted on 11/20/2015 9:50:38 AM PST by Jim W N
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To: gattaca

A smart super market will identify this product, even if the Feds won’t.


36 posted on 11/20/2015 9:53:01 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: ifinnegan

Well, again, since the feds are absolutely limited by the Constitution which is the ONLY source of federal power to act, the first and really only question you have to ask yourself about the feds is, “Is it constitutional?”.

I see nothing in the Constitution to authorize the feds to interfere with our food or drugs or to establish the FDA. “Ensuring safety and security” is not an enumerated power delegated to the feds by the Constitution and ONLY enumerated powers are those the feds may exercise. Since unconstitutional federal acts are by definition acts of tyranny, the FDA and its activities are acts of tyranny.


37 posted on 11/20/2015 9:55:05 AM PST by Jim W N
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To: keat

“If it tastes good I’ll eat the hell out of it.”

Twice!


38 posted on 11/20/2015 9:59:09 AM PST by CodeToad (Stupid kills, but not nearly enough!)
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To: w1n1
What a dumb headline.

It's always been legal to eat; you just couldn't sell it.

39 posted on 11/20/2015 10:00:48 AM PST by BfloGuy ( Even the opponents of Socialism are dominated by socialist ideas.)
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To: Jim 0216

Are you a constitutional scholar?


40 posted on 11/20/2015 10:01:36 AM PST by ifinnegan
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