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Old 11-19-2015, 06:18 PM
 
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Only took 20 years to approve, it's amazing the company is still around.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/20/bu...nsumption.html

Please note: monsanto IS IN NO WAY INVOLVED HERE, so no need to post crazed fiction from 'natural news' about them on this thread.

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Old 11-19-2015, 06:52 PM
 
Location: Concord NC
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People have been genetically modifying life-forms since the first seed was planted in favor of another or two plants were deliberately cross-pollinated. Birds, wind and bees have been blindly engaging in genetic modification forever. Why is it "un-natural" to some if we do it?
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Old 11-19-2015, 06:59 PM
 
Location: Great State of Texas
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People have been genetically modifying life-forms since the first seed was planted in favor of another or two plants were deliberately cross-pollinated. Birds, wind and bees have been blindly engaging in genetic modification forever. Why is it "un-natural" to some if we do it?
Well I guess if you left a salmon and an eel together long enough they might mate.
But that's doubtful. They also got injected with growth hormones.
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Old 11-19-2015, 07:04 PM
 
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People have been genetically modifying life-forms since the first seed was planted in favor of another or two plants were deliberately cross-pollinated. Birds, wind and bees have been blindly engaging in genetic modification forever. Why is it "un-natural" to some if we do it?
Selective breeding and hybridization is not genetic modification, from the article
"The AquAdvantage salmon contains a growth hormone gene from the Chinook salmon and a genetic switch from the ocean pout, an eel-like creature, that keeps the transplanted gene continuously active, whereas the salmon’s own growth hormone gene is active only parts of the year. The company has said the fish can grow to market weight in 18 to 20 months, compared with 28 to 36 months for conventionally farmed salmon."

Crossing the Atlantic Salmon with a Chinook Salmon is no big deal, but neither one of those is going to mate with an eel.
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Old 11-19-2015, 08:04 PM
 
Location: zooland 1
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Fish are friends not food

Stop the suffering of innocent beings

Go vegan.. Be a responsible conscious American
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Old 11-19-2015, 08:13 PM
 
Location: Lebanon, OH
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Old news, Cooke Aquaculture and True North have been producing these salmon for years off the coast of Eastport Maine and all over the Bay of Fundy in Canada in pens like these.



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Old 11-20-2015, 01:38 AM
 
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Fish are friends not food

Stop the suffering of innocent beings

Go vegan.. Be a responsible conscious American
Fish are very much food. Especially when breaded and buttered. MMMMMMMM
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Old 11-20-2015, 07:27 AM
 
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Old news, Cooke Aquaculture and True North have been producing these salmon for years off the coast of Eastport Maine and all over the Bay of Fundy in Canada in pens like these.


the FDA approval is most definitely not old news - it happened yesterday.
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Old 11-20-2015, 03:23 PM
 
Location: Ohio
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People have been genetically modifying life-forms since the first seed was planted in favor of another or two plants were deliberately cross-pollinated. Birds, wind and bees have been blindly engaging in genetic modification forever. Why is it "un-natural" to some if we do it?
Because gene-splicing isn't natural.

It's dishonest and disingenuous to refer to cross-pollination or selective breeding as gene-splicing.
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Old 11-20-2015, 06:17 PM
 
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What's next, genetically-modified men?
yeah, but what other creature would you cross them with?
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