How Will You Know if Your Store is Selling GM Salmon?
Since the FDA won't require labels...
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AquaBounty was very covert in its development of genetically modified salmon, eliciting a lawsuit against the Canadian government for producing GM salmon eggs, imported from facilities in Panama. Now that the FDA has deemed GM salmon ‘safe for sale,’ how will you know if your store is going to carry it, since the FDA does not require labeling? AquaBounty’s answer is vague.
“It is too early to discuss commercialization plans, but there are several paths to market that are being considered,” AquaBounty spokesperson Dave Conley told Civil Eats. [1]
Your grocery store, farmers or fish market won’t have to tell you whether or not you are purchasing GM fish. According to the “voluntary guidelines for GMO labeling” the FDA proposed when it approved the salmon last week, that decision will be left entirely up to the companies selling the fish.
Stores like Costco have vowed that ‘for now’ they aren’t planning on selling the GM fish, but as Food & Water Watch assistant director Patty Lovera says, the odds that companies will disclose this information are incredibly low. In fact, she has yet to see a food company do so. “The practical effect of voluntary labeling is no labeling.”
There are a few ways to minimize the possibility of eating GM fish, though. Aside from demanding that your grocery store disclose whether or not it is selling the genetically modified variety, the country-of-origin (COOL) label required by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has to say where the salmon comes from. Many retailers also label if salmon is farm-raised or wild caught.
Though the GM salmon (supposedly grown in captivity), have already shown that they could easily contaminate other fish populations, even brown trout, if you purchase wild caught fish that is NOT grown in Panama, the chances that you’ll be eating GM fish should significantly decrease.
Furthermore, if the salmon has been processed and added to other ingredients, like salmon spread or a salmon burger, it is more likely to have been grown with GM salmon.
As of today, according to Center for Food Safety analyst, Jaydee Hanson, the only commercially-grown salmon in Panama is genetically modified.
AquaBounty maintains that its GE salmon will be “traceable.”
Sources:
[1] KQED
 | 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. |
I have tried GMO salmon, farm raised non-GMO salmon, and I eaten regular fresh caught salmon.
In comparison I think the GMO salmon tastes the best, and has the best texture.
So, for my money, I will prefer the GMO salmon to buy.
You won’t know which is which as it’s not labeled LOL.
Your grocery store, farmers or fish market won’t have to tell you whether or not you are purchasing GM fish. According to the “voluntary guidelines for GMO labeling” the FDA proposed when it approved the salmon last week, that decision will be left entirely up to the companies selling the fish.
That’s how a free society works. Sellers offer what they have for sale, revealing anything they please about it. Potential buyers decide whether the information offered is sufficient, and whether the price is acceptable, and they either buy or walk away.
But Ms. Sarich flaunts the fact that she hates freedom. She wants the cold, dead hand of government setting the rules for every transaction. Voluntary terms negotiated between buyer and seller are totally passé, in Sarich’s mind.
God spare us from people who want to run our lives for our own good!
Salmon was already one of the worst foods you can eat so being GMO don’t make a lot of difference
interesting quote by GMO industry executive
If this s**t causes infertility….Awesome!!!The world is over populated. This is why gmo is actually saving the planed. I am doing humanity a f***ing favor
Sincerely, Ed
https://www dot youtube dot com/watch?v=BkRirCcmrX0
Where is GMO Dan or whatever his name is. Maybe he got a life.
GMO Rob I think. Oh .. he’ll be here. I often wonder if entities like him aren’t just one identity who is actually made of several people – say, ten Monsanto employees. They all take turns, around the clock, so that every GMO article everywhere, entities like “him” (and the others) can respond all the time. Surely no one has the spare time to do this all day long, making comments everywhere, without some kind of situation to support it.
Exactly he’s a paid Monsatan shill.
And you said you were “smart” LOL, you can’t even get past the fact that nobody is paying me to spread the truth. You are such an idiot.
who says you aren’t getting paid. just you a proven liar. DOHKAY bobo
Prove it then if you are so smart.
I can’t prove your a paid shill but it’s pretty obvious to everyone on this site.
Ephesians 5:11
Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them.
that is what I do.
Then why are you taking part in the dark lies of anti gmo? Practice what you preach.
No. The GMO industry is the total liar. Recent news about Seralini being exonerated in the courts is not helping you, is it, Roberts?! Absolute lies, and we’re not buying them. We will also stop buying salmon altogether now, since the GMO industry just ruined this food as well.
I could really care less about seralini. Gmos have twenty years of wide spread use on their side with zero issues.
It’s not about zero issues. It’s about me knowing what I’m buying. If GMO is so great why are they hiding it?
For the same reason they don’t label the variety of corn you buy, the breed of beef or pork, the use of antibiotics, if the plant was created with mutation breeding. I could go on, but all of these plus gmos have all been deemed safe. Labeling is an unnecessary cost that would be forced on people that don’t want it and in many cases can’t afford it. You have options, including organic, non gmo and raising your own.
Your not very bright are you…your list of ‘for the same reason’ are products that If they are GMO we are asking for labels. And too expensive to label? Yeah ink on an already existing label would surely break the bank. Hey can I have your job? I could do it much better.
You are the one that isn’t very smart if you think a label is only a few words. It is what’s behind the label that costs money. Of course your obvious lack of business sense shows how little you understand. As for my job? Come ahead, of course with you business and farm knowledge you will be broke within a year, not to mention you would never survive the hundred hour work weeks in the spring.
Intelligent reply, “your such an idiot’.
Still smarter than you.
What’s a farmer and a jet have in common? They both whine all the way to Hawaii
I guess that is a good one for somebody that can’t come up with a real argument. Thanks for showing that in a battle of wits you are unarmed.
Afraid not there Jackie, I just am very passionate about farming and hate to see the lies that are spread.
Umm, there’s a reason why livestock and wild birds wont eat GM crops, buddy. Funny how we’re so intelligent, yet animals sometimes have the upper hand on some things. …..Well, more power to ya’ in your eating of your glyphosates! xD
LOL, I guess someone forgot to tell the animals about not eating gmos. Where do you think the majority of our grain goes? You don’t have a clue. You need to quit listening to the lies and actually find out how the world works.
Thanks, Gmo Roberts. Nice to see there’s another voice of sanity here. To people like Sarich, GMO is the equivalent of witchcraft in Salem, Mass. Idiots.
GM Salmon Being Raised in a Secretive Location in the Panamanian Rainforest
April 24, 2013
earthisland.org/journal/index dot php/elist/eListRead/gm_salmon_being_raised_in_a_secretive_location_in_the_panamanian_rainforest/
AquaBounty has had a long and difficult journey trying to develop GM
fish in the 20 years since researchers at a university in Newfoundland
first hit on the idea of making a faster-growing salmon.
The researchers injected growth genes from a Chinook salmon and a seal
eel into an Atlantic salmon. The new genes made the fish produce growth
hormone year-round, bringing the fish up to market size in 18 months instead of 30.
The company has developed hybrid salmon, trout, and tilapia designed to grow faster than traditional fish.