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Originally posted by Ex_CT2
reply to post by HabiruThorstein
I certainly can't disagree with your lack of love for the FDA. But the last thing we need is more GMO food. Now, if only they could somehow stall and starve DuPont and Monsanto into nonexistence. Unfortunately, my guess is that Aquabounty hasn't been as conscientious about paying their "dues." In our new corporate/governmental paradigm, bureaucratic palms gotta be properly greased and pockets generously fattened before you can get any love....
The Food and Drug Administration in 2010 concluded that Aquabounty's salmon was as safe to eat as the traditional variety.
The agency also said that there's little chance that the salmon could escape and breed with wild fish, which could disrupt the fragile relationships between plants and animals in nature. But more than two years later the FDA has not approved the fish, and Aquabounty is running out of money.
Originally posted by Indigo5
reply to post by HabiruThorstein
Thanks for bringing this to my attention! So the FDA is "dragging it's feet"? F&^%!! I was hoping they outright denied the technology!!!
Your OP of "US Bureaucracy" is misleading...cuz all over Europe they wouldn't let Genetically Modified Food of this nature anywhere near the grocery store. Europe is much more wary of GMO food than the US! Mostly because there is less corruption in the "FDA(s)" of Europe, where in the USA it is more of a tool to corporations.
I have to love this bit from your OP..
The Food and Drug Administration in 2010 concluded that Aquabounty's salmon was as safe to eat as the traditional variety.
The agency also said that there's little chance that the salmon could escape and breed with wild fish, which could disrupt the fragile relationships between plants and animals in nature. But more than two years later the FDA has not approved the fish, and Aquabounty is running out of money.
FOR EFFS SAKE!!!!! Even hear of the Asian Carp??? There hasn't been a widely bred alien fish in the USA that HASN'T escaped into the wild and wreaked havok!!
Here is a simple fact...they breed them in isolated ponds...OK. Then a flock of geese land in the water. Fish eggs get stuck to thier feet and feathers and are transported to the nearest waterway by the birds.
It has happened for Millenia...Fish migrate. If nature wanted Trout to grow at 5X times the rate they do, then nature would have done just that. How stupid arrogant we are. What happens when these fish end up in other waterways and their rapid growth lets them out-compete every other species...how does that effect the food chain????
Take a look at what the Asian Carp has done to our waterways!!!!
Asian carp were first introduced to North America by fish farmers in the southern U.S. They imported the carp to control plant growth in fish ponds.
Screw this company!! And ef the FDA for even considering it!
Originally posted by Snoil
Go bury your head in the sand and pretend science doesn't matter. You want pure nature? Go live in the woods and use leaves for toilet paper.
100 years from now, assuming we don't nuke each other to death, there will be 1 of 2 scenarios regarding food, either we learn bio-technology and expand the amount of it we produce at a faster rate than we are now, or famine/disease will do it's Darwinian best. Chemical fertilers are not the answer, especially the ones being used today of which many are petroleum based.
Asian Carp- rssult of international shipping stupidity, not science.edit on 5-12-2012 by Snoil because: grammaredit on 5-12-2012 by Snoil because: typo
Originally posted by ShadeWolf
reply to post by Snoil
Can't give you enough stars. The amount of hate for science on these forums is really starting to get to me. "Waah waah, live in harmony with nature!" No, eff that.
Originally posted by Snoil
Inigo5, is it then your prescription that we should not continue to learn about how to increase food yields?
Originally posted by Snoil
You claim such totality of scientific knowledge, yet rant againt using it?
Originally posted by Indigo5
Originally posted by ShadeWolf
reply to post by Snoil
Can't give you enough stars. The amount of hate for science on these forums is really starting to get to me. "Waah waah, live in harmony with nature!" No, eff that.
Yah...and the amount of ignorance with regards to science is stunning. Science is the STUDY OF NATURE and the underpinnings of the natural laws that dictate reality. Being opposed to GMO's isn't a hate of science, it is a view arrived at by those who have been informed by science.