GE Salmon: The FDA’s Tug at Nature
A Food & Water Watch-initiated FOIA request yielded disturbing e-mails from scientists at FWS, expressing their concerns about GE salmon.
The Scottish-born American naturalist John Muir once warned, “When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.” Those words are certainly appropriate to call upon now.
November 22, just three days before many of us sit down to Thanksgiving dinner, is the FDA’s deadline for public comments on the approval of genetically engineered salmon. (Technically, it’s the deadline for comments regarding whether or not GE salmon should be labeled — it should — but let’s not go down that road until we’ve made a much bigger point.) We’ve reached a critical juncture in this roller coaster-like process, which is why our latest letter to the FDA is so timely and so very interesting.
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4,000 Salmon Can’t Be Wrong
Oops. 4,000 salmon escaped from the Loch Duart Salmon Farm in Scotland on November 9, according to IntraFish Media. But don’t worry about it because Loch Duart is sorry. No harm, no foul, right? Wrong.
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FDA Isn’t Fishing for Feedback on GE Salmon
GE Salmon: Consumers Need to Weigh in Now!
The race is over. The fight is on. FDA announced last week that they will hold public hearings on the approval of genetically engineered (GE) salmon for consumers’ tables. If they approve GE salmon, it would be the first transgenic animal approved for human consumption in the U.S. The hearings will take place September 19, 20 and 21, which doesn’t leave much time to pose critical questions. Even though many consumers express concern over health and environmental risks that might be associated with GE salmon, FDA is trying to quickly approve it. In response to this important consumer issue, Food & Water Watch will host a series of blogs dedicated to this topic, and we will break down each concern we have with every posting. The following post is the first in this series.
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And the Race is On!
If you were willing to try your luck in the office World Cup pool, here’s a little contest that might be equally exciting. See if you can pick which genetically engineered food will enter the marketplace first: Frankenswine or Arnold Schwartzensalmon. We have some other great names for a similar and unfortunate creation. Currently, the competitors are neck and neck. Both “food products” are in the queue at the Food and Drug Administration – after a ten year haul – waiting to be approved for our tables.
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