I originally posted the following information and commentary onto my Facebook wall…
Genetically Engineered Salmon
Tell the FDA: Stop Genetically-Engineered Salmon:
http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/gm_salmon/?rc=fb_share2
(CredoAction.com) – We have just a few days to keep the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) from approving engineered salmon as the first animal manufactured for human consumption.
AquaBounty Technologies created the mutant Atlantic salmon by artificially combining growth hormone genes from a Pacific salmon with DNA from an eelpout. This keeps the fish growing year round, confined in crowded inland tanks — unlike ocean pens where conventionally farmed salmon are raised.
Here’s where it gets really scary: the FDA doesn’t do its own testing of genetically engineered animals. It relies on information provided by the company that wants approval — just like they did in their oversight of the egg industry which produced the largest salmonella outbreak in U.S. history last month.
And because genetically engineered salmon are being considered as a new “animal drug,” there’s little focus on the potential dangers of people consuming modified salmon. It’s not enough that raising salmon in crowded factory fish farms contaminates our food with antibiotics and other chemicals. Now the FDA would be adding additional unknown risks of GE salmon to the mix.
My Commentary: Please sign this petition to help stop the genetic vandalism of our planet! If we simply allow these corporations to pollute our earth with their patented, genetically-hybridized franken-fish, then all natural salmon will be extinct in less than 40 GENERATIONS!!!! This would cause an infinite number of unknown effects to the delicate balance of our ecosystem, up unto and including the utter destruction of our food chain, and an ensuing mass extinction event across the entire world!!!
We must all understand the importance of stopping this gigantic, unconsented experminent against our entire planet!!! This is not science- this is CORPORATISM!!! Only a single company, AquaBounty Technologies, holds the patent to these abominable salmon, and there will be NO CONTROL GROUP!!! Once the contamination hits the oceans, it will be UNCONTAINABLE!!! This is a hostile corporate takeover of the world’s salmon supply in order to create a FOOD MONOPOLY!!! We must not allow the control freaks of this Earth to ENSLAVE US!! We owe it to ourselves, our loved ones, our ancestors, and all future generations, to take this planet back from the deadly clutches of the SCIENTIFIC-INDUSTRIAL DICTATORSHIP!!!!! Science is supposed to be a tool of knowledge and understanding, not a sword of DESTRUCTION and GENOCIDE (for profit)!!!
Read about the dangers of genetically-modified salmon here:
http://truefoodnow.org/2010/08/27/coalition-demands-fda-deny-approval-of-controversial-genetically-engineered-fish/
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1/2 salmon – 1/2 snakehead…lets whip that 1 up geneticists!
Under what authority do these CORPORATIONS claim the right to GENETICALLY VANDALIZE OUR PLANET?
Why don’t the geneticists of the world figure out what is causing disease, and how to cure it, instead of causing more? Answer: Because elimination of disease is a HUMAN desire, not a CORPORATE one. With the populace so willing to settle for PERPETUAL SYMPTOM TREATMENT, why would a CORPORATION purposely reduce their own “business” by making CURES available?
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