FDA Ignores 2 Million+ People Saying “No” to GMO Salmon
FDA to face multiple lawsuits over the GM salmon
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Center for Food Safety as well as additional plaintiffs plan to sue the US Food and Drug Administration over its recent approval of AquaBounty’s AquaAdvantage® salmon for human consumption. As far as consumption goes, this is the first genetically modified animal to receive the agency’s green light.
The transgenic salmon was approved for sale and consumption by the FDA even though millions of Americans and 40 members of congress opposed it. Additionally, more than 300 environmental, civic, and animal welfare organizations, as well as supermarkets, have made their opposition vocal as well.
Andrew Kimbrell, executive director of Center for Food Safety said:
“The fallout from this decision will have enormous impact on the environment. Center for Food Safety has no choice but to file suit to stop the introduction of this dangerous contaminant.”
In a shocking refusal to listen to consumer complaints and concerns, the agency has supported biotech interests once again while ignoring public health. Receiving more responses than the agency has ever had to wade through, 2 million people made remarks during the FDA’s open comment period concerning the GM fish.
Kimbrell continued:
“The review process by FDA was inadequate, failed to fully examine the likely impacts of the salmon’s introduction, and lacked a comprehensive analysis. This decision sets a dangerous precedent, lowering the standards of safety in this country. CFS will hold FDA to their obligations to the American people.”
AquaBounty has also been accused of failing to follow basic environmental regulations in Panama, where the experimental fish are being raised after being shipped there from Prince Edward Island in Canada. Environmental groups have sued Canada’s government for allowing the GE salmon eggs to be produced there, potentially putting ecosystems and species such as wild salmon at risk.
One study has already proven that the GM salmon can successfully mate with wild brown trout, an entirely different species of fish, conceivably putting much marine life in jeopardy.
Unfortunately, this GMO creation will not even be labeled. Perhaps we need to speak a little louder to be heard.
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| Christina Sarich is a humanitarian and freelance writer helping you to Wake up Your Sleepy Little Head, and See the Big Picture. Her blog is Yoga for the New World. Her latest book is Pharma Sutra: Healing the Body And Mind Through the Art of Yoga. |
Eat Gmo get cancer, period.Gmo Roberts works for Monsanto, is an eco terrorist fyi…Tsyganka, hit it on the head!!! well said.
This is pure FDA disinformation. The FDA has a long history of ignoring and suppressing the real dangers of GMO foods.
One of the earliest cases that has demonstrated that fact is the infamous tryptophan disaster of 1989 where the FDA ignored the warnings of their own scientists about the real risks of GMOs, simply to protect the business interests of the GMO industry, which they’ve been colluding with for decades – google see “L-Tryptophan: The Truth About The FDA Tryptophan Recall Of 1989” (at supplements-and-health dot com site)
The FDA-industry cartel has the average person believing that they’re protecting their health. Yet, lying about real facts, denying real facts, or minimizing or ignoring real facts is not protecting or helping the public, it’s deceiving the public.
One more food item from USA NOT to be bought from the supermarket in New Zealand!
scream it from the mountain tops people!! we will be heard! don’t give up!!
Millions also say no to vaccines, to birth control pill, to milk,
to sugar, to GM corn and to hundreds of safe stuff (safe = negligible risks). Country
decisions (in USA and elsewhere) have to be taken on the base of a solid
risk assessment and this was the case of GM salmon. The body of evidence is very
large, you should just read carefully the complete FDA report before believing
in Mike Hanson and other advocates of a world without GMOs.
Why hasn’t FDA been labeled an industry-controlled terrorist organization? Ca. half of FDA-approved drugs are withdrawn from the market due to injuries and deaths within 5 years of release. FDA ignores millions of Americans when it ‘rules’ on what unlabeled poisons will be sold as ‘food.’ FDA has consistently worked to discredit the link between health and good food. There were no fish biologists or fish ecologists on FDA’s approval committee for GMO salmon; the committee consisted of industry shills for GMOs and cloning. Revolving-door lickspittles from the GMO and Big Pharma industries have key positions on FDA. FDA works with state and local ‘law’ enforcement to use SWAT teams to terrorize peaceful and healthful organic dairy enterprises at gunpoint. FDA has done nothing to reinstate the Delaney Clause that banned known carcinogens from our food. FDA neither heeds us nor protects us. FDA is funded by and thus controlled by the industries it’s supposed to regulate, industries that have no reservations about sickening and killing us if they can profiteer. Key FDA officials should be prosecuted for terrorism and crimes against humanity.
2 million americans is less than 1%. It has been proven safe and the majority aren’t complaining only people like you are whining.
I knew you’d show up to grouse and throw ad hominems.
Hope you had a nice Thanksgiving.
Bless your little heart.
Yes I did thank you for asking. We had gmo fed turkey and ham as well as many other delicious dishes made with good gmo technology.
2 million people who are awake.
2 million people who care about the well being of the other 6+ billion people
2 million people who have the courage to stand up for those who are delusional, stubborn, ignorant and not informed
It only takes one to change the world. 2 million is a powerful force.
Wake up. No one wants anything GMO.
Tell that to the billions that have been eating them for years with zero issues. Wake up and quit listening to the organic propaganda lies.
There are not ‘zero issues’. There are endless issues, particularly health issues and an increase in mental issues/instability. Many people just don’t realize the cause. It’s only because the information is hidden. Or certain studies simply don’t exist. Issues are not recorded/related to FDA approved crap food. Drugs are simply prescribed to relieve symptoms (drugs approved by the FDA…), but targeting symptoms doesn’t cure the root cause. These giant corporations don’t want to make us healthy with good food, otherwise they’d miss out on all the money they make treating symptoms of a shitty, processed and GMO diet.
Sure they do, it is all one big conspiracy.
zero issues? How can you even make such a ridiculous claim.
Easy, because it’s the truth.
– that is absurd.
Sounds like you don’t have any proof to the contrary. Thanks for agreeing.
Until you can point to a society with a clean bill of health. Neither do you.
Oh yes by all means let’s blame gmos everything the way you are trying. LOL, if you don’t like them then eat organic nobody is stopping you.
They also say the science is settled with global warming.
Some of it is. The earth is warming there is zero doubt about that.
The new danger of climate change… ‘flying
boulders’: Scientists warn giant rocks will be catapulted into the air
during powerful superstorms caused by global warming.
More of you fantasies? Please moron go back to your blowup doll and do whatever it is you do, just leave us out of your perverted ways.
Lol, google it, the world is getting a really good laugh over it.
These climate experts should take a little more care about stating what hardships their theories will provide in the future.
But not as easy as your mom.
You still confuse natural plant blends and forced genetic engineering. There’s a difference. The real problem here is that either you really believe your own nonsense and spew this crap willingly and voluntarily or you’re getting paid to do so.
Don’t worry. People will figure it out on their own. One doesn’t need to be a rocket scientist to see how their health improves after eliminating pesticide from their diet.
Man has been forcing plant genetics for ten thousand years. Very little we eat today would have occurred naturally.
Man has been working with Nature for ten thousand years, GE is in it’s infancy and is not a creation of nature. It’s natural evolutionary cycle will become apparent with time and the causes will slowly show.
20 years for any claims of safety is sheer ignorance.
LOL, man has been messing with nature for thousand of years already. We wouldn’t have hardly any of the food we eat today if man hadn’t created it. It would not evolved “naturally”. Definitely we wouldn’t have any of the products brought to us through mutation breeding. Those can even be labeled organic these days and yet you don’t whine about them, LOL. Is it because you don’t care, they have been in the market to long, or your just not smart enough to figure it out? GMOs are just the next step and while there is always a chance for disaster, that chance is no greater than all of the previous steps man has taken.
Your scripted response has been seen thousands of times.
There is 4.54 billion years worth of history and the pro gmo faction makes claim that 20 years is a satisfactory period to provide conclusive proof concerning the science of GE and it’s evolution.
Yes it is a creation of nature. Look up snake dna in cattle and read this. http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2015/05/05/404198552/natural-gmo-sweet-potato-genetically-modified-8-000-years-ago
The area planted with GM varieties
reach now some 180 million hectares.Billions of animals have been fed GM feed in the last
10 years, with absolutely no report on damage (except from the mad Seralini and
some other scientist that violate experimental procedures and statistics). Human
beings are also eating GM food in the last decade and there is not a single
report on damage.
Why? Because maize, soy bean, papaya and many other
grains and fruits are compositionally equivalent to non GM plants. No toxin, no
allergens, no anti-nutrients. As simple as that.
You may
change your diet and just eat organics. Your health may improve (which I
strongly doubt, if you don’t change your life style for better, health inducing
practices), but you can also die of a bacterial infection, as recently happened
in Europe and some year ago in other countries, incl. USA.
A challenge to scientific integrity: a critique of the critics of
the GMO rat study conducted by Gilles-Eric Séralini et al. (2012)
enveurope dot com/content/27/1/13
1. Arjo et al.’s accusation of “bad design” due to the “discredited” hypothesis is
false, because the hypothesis that inserted genes may produce unwanted effects is a finding, not a presumption. That the accusation is false is also underlined by the internationally binding legislation of the UN Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety of 2000 carried forward in 2014 and representing the minimum consensus of over 160 signatory nations.
2. Of all the assertions made this one most requires supporting references despite its widespread acceptance, but none are given nor are they in similar criticisms by other critics, except for the repeated references to other long-term trials that showed no harmful effects.
3. Many studies show that inserted genes do exert multiple effects, reviewed in [23]. The basics of gene structure and function lead one to expect this. Thus, a) most genes are pleiotropic, exerting unknown diversities of functions; b) many proteins themselves have multiple activities, including control functions; c) most “junk” DNA is transcribed (as emphasised by ENCODE), and the RNA has complex multiple control functions; d) as a result, a randomly inserted gene is likely to hit some function; e) the transferred gene, with a strong promoter added and introns removed, may have
activities other than those intended. (Much of this was apparent 14 years ago [1].)
4. Therefore, the idea that inserted genes exert no unintended damaging effects is an implicit hypothesis which has become an assumption and is now entrenched as a consensus. This consensus cannot be applied as criticism of Seralini et al.’s paper merely because it indicated the opposite of those many other results.
5. This consensus also allows the continued misuse of the ill-defined term “GMO”, leading for example, to the frequent claims that “Genetic Modification” is merely a form of speeded up breeding carried out ever since agriculture began. Maybe this is intended to allay public fears by showing how the process is ordinary, occurs in nature and is nothing new, (gene modification is after all the basis of evolution). Thereby, the new and exciting developments of gene transfer methods become buried from view, rather than being extolled. Public understanding of science is therefore betrayed and this stance becomes counter-productive.
Serralini is a fraudster. No posting of bunk by his apologists can change the fact that he let the rats live so long with such tumors that he knew would occur before the so-called study started. Then he posted photos with the clear intent to deceive.
Forced. I do not think so. 8000 years ago this happened in the soil. Naturally. http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2015/05/05/404198552/natural-gmo-sweet-potato-genetically-modified-8-000-years-ago Lots of safe eating. Just like the ones created in a nice sanitary lab.
What makes you think organic food is pesticide-free? News flash… It’s not. Poison is poison whether it natural or synthetic
Not at all: there will be always
a percentage of Americans (or any other people) opposing some well established
product: vaccines, birth control pills, sugar, fluoride in water and a thousand
other stuffs. Could we perhaps enjoy life as we do, with less disease and well
fed, had all the “suspicious” products been banned?
OMG……then YOU can drink/brush your teeth with Fluoride (by-product of the lead Industry), Eat GMO’s in all your non-grass fed, antibiotic-filled, growth hormone-laden Beef every day, get a Flu Shot every year, feed GMO beet sugar/corn syrup candy to YOUR grandchildren…….I highly encourage condoms for unwanted pregnancy (which I’m sure ALL men would wear ALL the time if THEY were the ones who could get pregnant)……….while WE would like to NOT do any of those things. This IS still a Semi-Free Country, isn’t it?
Except for condoms, I use or eat all these dangerous things almost every day in the last 10 years and I Am perfectly fine.
Those are only the people who are aware! But these kind of controversial subjects are never brought into the mainstream for ALL to see – certainly the amount of opposition would be greater if everybody knew what was going on behind closed doors. It’s all kept hidden, behind the guise of an association apparently meant to keep people safe. Nobody wants this GMO crap, but most people still don’t even know what GMO means, yet if they did then they would certainly.oppose it as well. We want real food, stuff that isn’t processed, genetically engineered and full of chemicals that damage our bodies overtime. The FDA approves anything that doesn’t instantly kill us or instantly make us ill. But some diseases are progressive and take time to become deadly. Obesity, heart problems, thyroid/hormonal issues, cancer and much more… these things take time to develop but they ARE caused by shitty processed/modified foods that are apparently deemed safe by the FDA. It’s shameful of this organization.
You are as misguided as most. You do not seem to be able to separate gmos from processed food. True, today processed food contains gmos, because it is economically feasible. However, if you get rid of gmos, processed food will still be there, and guess what, it will still be just as unhealthy. As for you claiming that gmos will adventually hurt you? That is just your next excuse. They have already been out for twenty years with zero of the negatives coming true.
if you get rid of gmos, it will still be just as unhealthy.
Proof?
They have already been out for twenty years with zero of the negatives coming true.
Lie!
To rely on anything, other than the local resources is stupidity. When SHTF, you will be without. Local diversity and support is the only way to survive any National or Global crisis.
Someone has been watching way to much of the walking dead lately. You need to get real. Gmos have been studied and tested more than any other food in history and have passed with flying colors.
Maybe your declaring the guarantee that all is ok in your version of reality?
The economic or financial conditions will not affect commerce, Globally or Nationally?
The Corporations will be there for us, regardless of profit, in the time of distress of need, ie humanitarian?
There 21 million People starving in Yemen right now, and your cowardly hero’s are no where to be seen.
What about the growing number starving Families in the US, still no humanitarian efforts by your friends?
That kind of supports my statement, doesn’t it?
SHTF never happens, but it is currently happening to millions of People across the Globe.
You are the only ones that seems to be so jealous of the corporations. Why is that? Is it because you have never had a work ethic to actually get out of your basement and do something? You claim to be the gi joe type but yet you want others to go in to a war zone and deliver food when you are to big of a coward to do anything but lay on your mommies basement couch? LOL you had bettered stick with your blowup doll there perv.
So they are too afraid to help real people in need?
Based on my experience,
UN, NATO, DOD, USAF, USMC, USN, USA, and many other Countries Military members that I have served with.
What was your experience again?
You mean all those you image to have helped, but refuse to offer any proof? Thanks again for proving you can lie all you want on a blog.
Nobody in their right mind would endanger their Family’s safety to provide proof of any sort to a well known mentally unstable internet poser.
Your not stupid enough to supply your personal information, why would you expect me to be stupid enough to do it?
Sorry if you think the Nations Defenders sit in their mommies basement looking at porn and commenting to idiots on the internet, but I’ll assure you that just isn’t true. This might be hard for you to believe, but they also have Families. Imagine that.
It’s a really big world out there Stinky and there are People from all walks of life everywhere.
Time for you to grow up and realize this.
You claim to be strong enough to protect our entire country and now you claim you can’t even save your rubber blowup doll? LOL, thanks for confirming that you are full of S—.
That has to be one of the stupidest statements I have ever heard, lmao.
I’m sure your kind of new to this, but we real People use banks and credit cards, and personal information can be used to gain access to them, lmao.
My information has been stolen from the VA and my background check information has been stolen, nothing anybody could do to stop those thefts of personal information from govt sources. The biggest resource of identity theft is from the civilian medical records, nothing anybody can do to stop that either.
Otherwise it never would have happened in the first place.
Heck, all of your information has been accessed and can be utilized at anytime, your bank account can be z’ed and there is nothing you can do about it.
Gee, if things are already so desperate then showing proof really can’t add any more now can it. You right, you have made one of the dumbest statements ever.
You show proof.
Things are only desperate if all continue to hide from the truth and don’t educate themselves.
The truth is, it doesn’t matter who I am, besides you would deny any proof, that’s what your paid to do.
You attacked my Family just for your own personal agenda, and I’m the one not to be trusted.
Prove that I get paid to make you look stupid? Oh I’m sorry you do that all by yourself. You just can’t accept the fact that people can be against your point of view and not get paid. You really are a very shallow person.
GMO Roberts. You get Troll of the Year award. Keep it up. You’re actually helping to bring more people to the truth. Not because you’re believable but because of your ridiculous claims. This motivates people to study the issue that much more and realize how full of it you are.
Never once did I expect anyone to believe me. My only wish is that they learn the truth and see the good gmos do for all. Which claim do you refer to by the way?
I don’t attack innocent people, you do to prove your points, whatever that is.
Example, your saying it is ok to insult and attack Military and their Families because I’m lying.
Never said it was ok, just said you aren’t one and you have yet to prove otherwise. I believe you said talk is cheap.
I am starting to think you have discovered the son of ted miner. Nothing he says is true.
Coward? Jealous of corporations? Perv? This comment perfectly exemplifies the compromised mindset of people who gleefully consume GMO food and think it’s perfectly fine. Who needs the words of compromised scientists like University of Florida’s Folta when we have living proof right before our eyes?
Kosovo, Iraq and Afghanistan have been my realities, so is the refugee crisis. Each person represents a land/business owner and person in distress and in fear of various turmoils due to present realities, which leads them to seek peace and shelter elsewhere, ie refugee.
Is that here you have gotten the terrorist training you claim to have? I’m sure you have had plenty of desire since the way you speak against this country.
All of the DOD members are required to undergo Terrorist Training. It is a Federal mandate and required annually.
LOL, so what’s your excuse?
Before you go on accusing the FDA, just read the
report, which summarizes lab and theoretical considerations, as well as the
scientific literature. The evaluation is rolling down the FDA pipeline for
almost 20 years!
Blind opposition is not a very intelligent
position…
https://deusexmachinanews.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/revolvingdoor65tz.jpg
usnews dot com/debate-club/should-consumers-be-worried-about-genetically-modified-food/until-proven-otherwise-gmos-arent-safe
The risks are unknown, especially due to the lack of long term studies
in this area. Biotech companies own the patent rights to the genetically
engineered seeds and their lack of sharing and disclosure of
information has compounded the problem of conflicts of interest in
research facilities by not allowing long term studies to take place.
In the face of scientific uncertainty, who should bear the risk of
potential harm from GMOs? Unlike the international community, which
prohibits the introduction of GM foods into the food supply until they
are proven safe and requires labeling and post-market monitoring, the
U.S. government takes the position that these foods are safe until
proven otherwise. It looks at the composition of GM foods as
“substantially equivalent” to conventional foods and does not recognize
potential risk inherent in the technology. Furthermore, by not requiring
labeling or traceability, the stage has not been set for any type of
recall action if hazards are discovered or incidents arise.
Potential harms to human health have been identified by the World Health
Organization as including direct health effects (toxicity), tendencies
to provoke allergic reaction (allergenicity), specific components with
toxic properties, the stability of the inserted gene, nutritional impact
and any unintended effects that could result from genetic modification.
Harm to the environment has already been documented with the development
of “superweeds” that are resistant to the herbicides embedded in the GM
crops. Several incidents involving contamination of non-GM crops have
also occurred, which were further exacerbated by the fact that these GM
seeds are not labeled or segregated in the food supply chain.
Where was your whining and labeling over the Ruby Reds and the seedless watermelons? You just like to complain for no good reason.
whataboutwatermelon dot com/index.php/2010/09/the-truth-about-seedless-watermelon/
The common misnomer is the distinction of, Genetically engineered,
genetic engineering Biological engineering, genetic modification, recombinant DNA technology Molecular biology The manipulation of a living genome by introducing or eliminating specific genes through recombinant DNA techniques, which may result in a new capability–eg production of different substances or new functions, gene repair or replacement.
Molecular cloning is the laboratory process used to create recombinant DNA
Neither the ruby red grapefruit or the seedless watermelon has used this process in the creation of.
No they were created by using either chemicals or radiation to scrabble their DNA and produce a new variety that could never have occurred in nature. It is call mutation breeding there moron.
If your referring to the Ruby-Sweet and Rio Star, then say so.
Yes created in a laboratory, but the ruby red wasn’t.
They are both mutants of the ruby red, I wanted to see if you were actually smart enough to actually look it up for yourself.
Everybody and their dog’s know the ruby red is naturally occurring, and now you know.
I knew it a long time ago there moron, I also know why it was replaced. You still have dodged the main issue, where is your bleeding heart for these food? How do you know the radiation used to create these won’t cause cancer? Why can such a product be labeled organic? LOL, you only whine about gmos because someone tells you that you should and you are dumb enough to believe them.
Actually,
I am an advocate of preparedness and self reliance.
If your local community cannot support itself through hard times, then hard times will have untold casualties.
If you expect outside powers to come running in and help you and your communities, your the fool.
Why would you expect someone to do something you can do yourself?
The future is up to the People.
That’s right and that’s why people created gmos and our communities raise them. You are finally making sense.
The agri-business working with the local Farmers,
farmwars dot info/?p=1284
I have rights, you cannot deny them.
What are you whining about now? No one has denied anything you moron. You really need to try hard and stay focused.
What?
Make legitimate a point.
I did you are a moron. Thanks for playing.
Back to the grapefruit issue?
GMO risks have been systematically evaluated by many risk agencies
around the World (including the European EFSA, the American three agencies, the
Canadian agencies, the Brazilian, Argentine and Australian agencies, and so on.
All of them came to the same conclusion: GM plants have the same risks as their
non transformed counterparts. Anti-GMO activists say there are always
uncertainties; in the very beginning there were some unertainties, but now,
after 20 years of extensive use and after many hundred risk assessments, they
have been reduced to almost zero.
You can list your preferred uncertainties and doubts and if you check
the many risk assessments available at the Biosafety Clearing House (Convention
of Biodiversity) and in risk assessment agencies sites you will see they have
been contemplated in their analysis.
Countries must adopt decisions on the basis of risk assessment, not on
risk perception. There will be always a percentage of Americans (or any other
people) opposing some well established product: vaccines, birth control pills,
sugar, fluoride in water and a thousand other stuffs. Could we perhaps enjoy
life as we do, with less disease and well fed, had all the “suspicious”
products been banned?
So the science is proven and conclusive?
This genetic scientist is whining too, about the danger of GMO. He spent 30 years as a GMO advocate in Canada and has since changed his story. This type of testimony, from actual scientists, is why people are alarmed, as they should be.
http://wakeup-world.com/2014/08/06/junking-down-our-food-supply-genetic-scientist-discusses-gmos/
Isolated voices in science have little value. In rsk assessment, even less,
Where has it been proven safe?
The FDA for one.
They FDA doesn’t do lab work, the manufacturer’s are required to provide it.
Yes they reviewed it and it was proven to them to be safe. Even a moron like you should be able to understand that.
“Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the
president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in
which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support
him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic
not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or
otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either
event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the
president or anyone else.” -President Theodore Roosevelt
“Another threat, less overt but no less basic, confronts liberal democracy.
More directly linked to the impact of technology, it involves the
gradual appearance of a more controlled and directed society. Such a
society would be dominated by an elite whose claim to political power
would rest on allegedly superior scientific knowhow. Unhindered by
the restraints of traditional liberal values, this elite would not
hesitate to achieve its political ends by using the latest modern
techniques for influencing public behaviour and keeping society under
close surveillance and control. Under such circumstances, the
scientific and technological momentum of the country would not be
reversed but would actually feed on the situation it exploits.”
Zbigniew Brzezinsk
Then YOU can eat it and feed it to your children/grand children. All WE wanted was Labeling, but NOooo……..so now Monsanto is going to be tried at The Hague in October 2016 for “Crimes Against Humanity” and hopefully, that will get rid of them for good. Even better. A Win for the World.
Yes I would keep dreaming on that on, LOL,
I hope the GMO fish poop on your plate.