FDA Has Approved GM Salmon for Consumption, and It Won’t Be Labeled
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration just approved the sale of genetically modified salmon – the first GM animal allowed on the market.
The FDA says that AquaBounty’s product will not require special labeling because it is nutritionally equivalent to conventional farm-raised Atlantic salmon, though this has not been proven.
It should be no surprise that the parent company of AquaBounty, Intrexon Corp, saw stock shares rise by 7.3% to $37.55 in afternoon trading. Unless we fire everyone in the FDA immediately, and ban all salmon, the company has essentially blackmailed us all into eating GM fish.
This recent approval is an especially-big deal when we consider the possibility that the Deny Americans the Right to Know (DARK) Act could soon go through Congress and strip GMO labeling from all foods completely.
Imagine going through the grocery store and having no idea whether the food you’re buying has been genetically modified. This, despite poll after poll showing that Americans want GMO labeling.
Read: Canada Sued Over Genetically Modified Salmon Calamity
Now that we have proof that industrial agriculture will stop at nothing to force-feed the world chemicals and seed that could ruin human health and the environment, it becomes even more transparent that the FDA is doing the dirty business of regulating a genetically modified world.
GM soy, sugar beets, canola, cotton, and maize have already taken over the millions of acres of arable land, but now we will be forced to eat GM salmon, and it won’t be labeled. So you won’t even know if the fish you are dining on was caught in the ocean, or grown on a GM farm, or a combination of the two, since genetically modified salmon has been gene-edited to grow four times faster than regular salmon, and will be grown without proper measures to keep it from contaminating non-GM salmon through cross-breeding.
Only Alaska requires a label for GM salmon at present, so as GM salmon is shipped to your state, and served up in restaurants, sold in grocery stores, and even grown in local fisheries, you’ll have no way to avoid it – unless of course, you just stop eating salmon.
Article image credit: Paul Darrow for The New York Times
Yes I am not a scientist but I would like to know what I am eating. Before I buy something I look to see where it was made, I try to buy American. I would also like to know more about the food that I am putting into my body, I am not a farmer, I buy my food. Weather you think GMO is good or bad, why not label and why does this website have so many trolls, they must surely have a financial interest, or they would just stop reading articles from NS. I think alot of distrust of GMO food comes from the secretive way they are marketed and the political back room deals. Just label it.
Salmon was already one of the most unhealthy foods to eat so whether it is GMO won’t make a lot of difference. But if you really want Salmon by BIO salmon.
Never eating salmon again. After AquaBounty drives away, sickens, and/or kills its customers, who will they sell this to?