FDA considering designer salmon with genes to double growth rate

[no_hypocrisy]

http://seattletThe Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is considering whether to approve the first genetically engineered animal that people would eat: Salmon that can grow at twice the normal rate.

The developer of the salmon has been trying to get approval for a decade. But now the company seems to have submitted most or all of the data the FDA needs for analyzing whether the salmon are safe to eat, nutritionally equivalent to other salmon and safe for the environment, according to government and biotechnology industry officials. A public meeting to discuss the salmon may be held in the fall.

Some consumer and environmental groups are likely to raise objections to approval. Even within the FDA, there has been a debate about whether the salmon should be labeled as genetically engineered; genetically engineered crops are not labeled.

Approval of the salmon would help open a path for companies and scientists developing other genetically engineered animals, such as cattle resistant to mad-cow disease or pigs that could supply healthier bacon. After the salmon, next in line for possible approval would probably be the "enviropig," developed at a Canadian university, which has less phosphorus pollution in its manure.

-more-imes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2012210778_salmon26.html

[rfranklin]

1. Got to be safe...just like the drug company trials that ensure their products are safe!

What could be wrong with a fish that grows like a cancerous tumor?

[glowing]

2. Do we ever learn?

What could go wrong with this idea? I mean black gushing oil in the Gulf is the response of man trying to tame the earth...

[bahrbearian]

3. Don't mess with Mother Earth.

[Posteritatis]

4. Panic! Panic! Panic! (nt)

[FedUpWithIt All]

5. :::sigh::: We just don't seem to get it. More does not = better.

I would rather have a smaller amount of clean, pure and healthy than a ton of contaminated, cancer causing, DNA altering franken-garbage.

[Gin]

6. if they want big fish people could eat..figure out a way to catch

market and cook those monster fish that jump out of the water near the great lakes....snake head I think...maybe other countries would buy those fish and we could have a whole new fishing industry

[FedUpWithIt All]

7. Sheephead are considered a "dirty" fish by many.

They are bottom feeders. The Great Lakes are also not the cleanest water sources. There are limits on what is safe to consume from fresh water inland sources.

It seems though that it IS a sorely overlooked food source.

Ocean Black drum is listed as a low Mercury food. The following link says it is safe too eat Drum once a week so it is safer than things like Lobster. http://www.detroitriver.org/fdr-pdf/2010-Eat%20Safe%20Fish%20from%20Detroit%20River-brochure.pdf

Some say that sheephead (freshwater Drum) are very delicious. They are commercially fished. Some say that McDonalds Filet-O-Fish is sheephead.

I recently moved away from Lake Erie and miss it badly.