FDA Ignores 2 Million+ People Saying “No” to GMO Salmon
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.
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 half of FDA-approved drugs are withdrawn from the market due to injuries and deaths within 5 years of release.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.
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.
scream it from the mountain tops people!! we will be heard! don’t give up!!
One more food item from USA NOT to be bought from the supermarket in New Zealand!