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
Another great day to be an American!! Our government has sided with science over the irrational fears and out right lies by people like Chrissy!!
Would that be the same “science” that claims they know what’s best for the planet and therefore the scared, irrational little commoners should just shut up and eat their GMO? Why is choice so scary to them? Because it means science hasn’t been successful in controlling the message. That’s where the real fear lies: in the minds of the fearful little scientists who want to control the natural world and all the beings who live here. They can never do this though, and they are failing, so they hide behind the government to protect them from a wild, irrational populace who insists on not being told what to eat.
LOL, the fear lies in people like you that think everyone is trying to control their lives. No one is making you eat any gmos you are more than free to raise your own or buy organic or non gmo. You may do whatever you wish, but your real problem is that you think EVERYTHING is all about you and it just isn’t.
Where did I mention ME? And where did I mention that I was afraid of GMO? And how is one supposed to know what is GMO and isn’t in order to make that choice that you claim we have if the morons who foist this salmon on the world are afraid to label it? This isn’t about ME, Mr. GMO, it’s about every living thing and about the hubris people like you have who think they know what’s best for the world and they just don’t.
When did I ever claim that I know what is best for the world? Did I say you couldn’t raise your own food? Did I say to get rid of organic? As a matter of fact nobody is saying it is any better for you than other salmon, they say that nutritionally it is the same.
News flash: not every person in the world is able to raise their own food, just like not everyone is able to raise their own salmon or trout. “They say” it’s nutritionally the same, but people have the right to not believe them, don’t they? It doesn’t mean they operate from fear, it means they desire to exercise their choice where they spend their money and what they put into their bodies. What is so freaking difficult and scary about the concept of choice? It’s only scary to the people who genetically modify living creatures because they know damn well that the public will choose non-GMO IF GIVEN THE CHOICE. That’s the real crux of the issue, and you know it.
The people in five states had the chance to decide on labeling and labeling is currently 0-5.
Ya sure. Monsanto and DuPont bought those elections fair and square. If you actually believe the voting system in this country represents the will of the people, then I have a rail car full of un-refrigerated Frankentrout I’d like to sell you. I read somewhere (dang, I wish I could find that link for you) that GMO fish doesn’t smell like real fish. How cool is that?
LOL, yes when you can’t compete with facts then try conspiracy theories and hear say.
Only you would claim buying an election is a “conspiracy,” even when it’s perfectly legal to do so. I don’t normally supply you with facts because they confuse you but let’s give it a shot just for kicks: In Oregon Monsanto spent more than $21 million to confuse voters about the ballot initiative. In Colorado they spent nearly $17 million. The opposition, led by Monsanto, DuPont, Dow Chemical, PepsiCo, Coca-Cola, General Mills, Kraft, Land O’Lakes and Smucker’s bombarded the airways with ads in an effort to get voters to vote against their freedom to choose. Oregon Secretary of State’s office reported that Monsanto dumped an extra $1.35 million into Oregon one week before the vote took place, bringing their total to more than $5.95 million in Oregon alone. Add that to the $8+ million they spent in California. I’m guessing your math-challenged so let me help: that’s a total of $52 million in only three states. I’m also guessing they can afford a whole slew of low-rent trolls like you for a mere fraction of that.
LOL, no wonder you never get anything right with all of that assuming. If people felt that strongly about labeling a little advertising money wouldn’t change their minds. Unless of course you are ASSUMING that most people for labeling have as low of an iq as yourself and can easily be distracted.
If people aren’t influenced by ads, then why did they waste $50 million? In fact, if ads don’t influence people, why are they plastered on billboards, every empty space in towns and cities, between every TV show, at the beginning of movies, all over magazines…. Why? Because they work, and you’re dead wrong, again.
Then their convictions about labeling aren’t very strong and the truth showed them the light. Either way labeling is 0-5.
Wow, that’s so clever. So I guess that means that you won, right? 0-5. So why are you here, still playing? What’s the point of hammering away at me if the game is over? It’s interesting what they say about shills… no matter how much you engage them, they always reply because they have prepared scripts to read from and canned replies are what they get paid for. Everything you wrote smells like canned Spam. I should confess that I baited you with a lot of silly word play today, so you made some nice cash off me and you can thank me when you get around to it. But understand this: I don’t give a rat’s ass what you think about Frankenfish, GMO, or anything else, and this is most certainly NOT a game we’re playing. By aiding and abetting the release of genetically modified organisms onto an already beleaguered planet, history will hold you personally responsible when the food chain is completely broken by scientists (and their lap-dog trolls) who think they are smarter than a planet that has been engaged in evolution for millions of years. Karma is a bitch, Mr. Roberts, and you will be held accountable for the part you played in the destruction of earth’s animal and human species, small and inept as it was.
It never fails to amaze me how stupid you anti gmo people are. Anyone that doesn’t agree with you must by all means work for Monsanto. Well here’s a news flash there are an awful lot of us in farming that don’t even really like them. Sure we respect them for bringing gmos to the table, but we do as little business with them as possible. All you have done is to be duped by the anti gmo lies and propaganda. While I don’t expect you to believe me, why don’t you actually get out into the farming world and see for yourself the good that gmos have done for the farmer, the consumer, and yes for the environment.
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Bottom line, through market, financial and economic manipulation, GMO have provided a way for Farmers to keep from losing their Family land, ie forced.
If you look to the seed you see great glory, but if you look to the underlying you see deception.
Only you see. To someone that actually knows about farming it is quite clear. However, there is always more that one way to accomplish things I have customers who do not use gmos and do just fine without it. It is up to each farmer to decide what is best for them and their farm. Most have decided on gmos for a host of reasons.
Oh! There’s that choice thing again. You have a choice, whether to buy and grow GMO seeds or not, but you deny the right of consumers to know whether they are putting GMO in their bodies or not. Funny how that choice thing works, isn’t it?
You see, Stinky claims to be a seed seller, ie a file cabinet full of GMO contracts. He is an agent of a higher degree, higher on the hierarchy of slaves, ie law enforcer through contract.
He should post a full contract so we will all be given a varied degree of confidence of the rights, choices as individual People, applied within the contractual agreement.
But alas, as a slave and minion to evil, he has to bow to his master or the results will be forever devastating, ie he has no choice anymore because he is forever enslaved by his own hand.
That’s very interesting, MLB, and I understand what you’re implying, but allowing that he has no choice in the matter lets him skate responsibility. Every person on this planet has a choice about how they live their lives and by what parameters they make decisions. This is what planet earth is all about. If you make your choices based only on money, that is all you will get, if you’re lucky. He makes a choice to bleat BS on every GMO article on the internet, belittle the authors by calling them “Chrissy” and such, and call everyone who doesn’t buy into his BS stupid. The purpose of debating such fools is to show to anyone else reading comments how they think, how they care nothing for all the “duped” consumers or the health of planet earth. It’s the mind set I want to reveal and GMO Roberts is dumb enough to display it to the world.
I appreciate your thoughts.
He is also owned through empowerment promised by his controllers, which they never intended to keep. He’ll be cast aside without a thought, in the fashion they decide.
He has choice, but he is also a slave to himself, he is forever reminded of his responsibility and his chosen path by his own accord..
His aggressive stance, I believe, is solely because he, deep down, knows he did it to himself.
It doesn’t matter what we think, he will never accept any responsibility, but he will always be held responsible for his actions by those around him. Eventually he will be made to stand, but till then…
Again I applaud your efforts.
And I, yours. I don’t really expect or care if he takes responsibility, his destiny is fixed and immutable. The purpose of this discourse, I hope, is so others see the pathology behind the inhumans who have joined up with the wrong side and participate in any way in the destruction of this planet and its living beings. It’s not the fault of the megacorps, it’s the fault of every individual who works for them, with them, or on their behalf and profits from it. I guess this is what you mean by taking responsibility. Perhaps just one person will read this and get that simple notion.
As to GMO Robot, the real issue is that GMO seeds are engineered to be infertile, therefore once a farmer starts down the GMO path they have to buy seeds year after year. Heirloom seeds can be saved and this is one thing (among many) Monsanto and all GMO seed producers do not like. They have clearly shown they want to own every seed, plant, animal and organism on the planet, and anyone who aides and abets this assault on humanity will be found guilty, in one way or the other. Perhaps their DNA will drown in their own effluent…. although I know a few GMO engineers and they won’t eat their own FrankenCrap.
Strange, consumers already have choices. They have organic, they can raise their own, they can buy non gmo, or they can do as most and buy gmos.
That’s only because consumers have the benefit of organic and non-GMO LABELS or how would they know? You’re anti-labeling, remember?
I never said that. I have zero issues with the organic or non gmo labels, or with people that chose to buy them. I do not feel that they should be forced to as well, BUT I don’t think they have the right to force their beliefs on me either.
You’re being intentionally obtuse. I’m talking about labeling GMO fish. We now have wild-caught and farm-raised and they are labeled as such. This article is about the fact that the FDA approved GMO salmon without the labeling requirement, so how will a consumer know if it’s GMO or not?
BTW, I tried twice now to supply you with a list of the countries that banned GMO and both times that list did not make it through the moderator. That tells me that this site is compromised so I am out of here.
Sure you did. Now that the gmo salmon have been approved it won’t be long before a company starts to label a product either non gmo or organic if the demand is there.
Well Mr. Roberts, I already am a farmer, an organic farmer. You already know that (but probably forgot) because we’ve discussed it before in prior forums. If this qualifies me as “stupid” in your world that’s fine, because thankfully I don’t live in your myopic little world. I am, unfortunately, surrounded by GMO farmers who do nothing but bitch about the problems they encounter, such as having to hire planes to spray their fields when their expensive GMO crops succumb to nature’s attempt to overcome unintended consequences the myopic GMO engineers didn’t anticipate. (We grow many different crops in the valley where I live.) These chemicals land on my fields borne by wind and rain, negating my organic status, and birds that accidentally get anywhere near this drop dead out of the sky. I have not been duped by the “anti-GMO lies,” I’ve been royally screwed. So don’t lecture me about all the “good” GMO’s do when dozens of countries in the world have banned them and I see the effects daily from my windows. While it’s comforting for you to take the position that everyone who is anti-GMO is stupid, that is just your flawed personal opinion. Thanks for putting your personal monetary agenda on full display for all to see.
Why don’t you list all of those countries that have actually banned gmos? I bet you can’t come up with hardly any. LOL, thanks for proving that you really don’t know what you are talking about.
There’s this nifty thing called GOOGLE. You can do searches on it and get educated about what you are personally doing to screw up the planet. Try this search: “Countries that have banned GMO” and learn how stupid you really are.
http://www.gmo-free-regions.org/gmo-free-regions.html
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This shows GMO bans in the EU. Here’s what I do know: my organic farming practices don’t impact my neighbors’ hard work in any way, they don’t harm the soil, insects, microorganisms, birds or animals. I get 30 heirloom acorn squash per plant using nothing but organic chicken manure that I get from a neighbor for free. A few plants gives me all the seeds I need for the following year without having to buy seeds, and my heirloom, organic squash sells for more than conventionally grown, pesticide-ridden squash because all those “duped” consumers recognize it’s safe to eat. And that’s just one thing I grow. So yeah, I’m really stupid for caring about how I impact my soil, the environment, and what put into the market for people to eat.
What about Vermont and Europe, Russia?
Last time I checked Europe and Russia aren’t part of our country. In Vermont the issue wasn’t put directly before the people. The state legislature passed the bill.
Europe and Russia are people too, maybe their voices had a play in the decision, or their leaders value them and their views.
The State’s act and serve the People, so their decision should be considered the voice of the People. Any who have disregarded the voice, 92% want labeling, have acted without respect to their Citizens.
You’re in love with Chrissy and frustrated you can’t get with her. Just admit it. That’s where your angst comes from. That and you’ve yet to realize this government is criminal.
You probably think this is a good thing too:
http://healthimpactnews.com/2014/mass-sterilization-kenyan-doctors-find-anti-fertility-agent-in-un-tetanus-vaccine/
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?