FDA approves first genetically engineered food animal
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The Food and Drug Administration announced Thursday that it has approved the first genetically modified food animal – the AquAdvantage salmon, a fast-growing variety that is as nutritious and safe to eat as any other Atlantic salmon. The salmon is produced by AquaBounty Technologies, a Massachusetts biotechnology company.
The salmon was produced by inserting a growth hormone gene from a Chinook salmon, as well as a gene from the ocean pout, which make the animal grow faster.
ompanies aren't legally required to label genetically modified salmon, according to the FDA. The one sure way to avoid genetically modified salmon is to purchase the wild-caught variety, which is not genetically engineered, officials said.
The salmon was produced by inserting a growth hormone gene from a Chinook salmon, as well as a gene from the ocean pout, which make the animal grow faster.
Gross, I can't grasp eating something that's been stripped of its nutrients, and natural DNA. The body cannot recognize genetically modified foods. U.S. needs to take notes from every country that has banned it.
Gross, I can't grasp eating something that's been stripped of its nutrients, and natural DNA. The body cannot recognize genetically modified foods. U.S. needs to take notes from every country that has banned it.
It has all the same nutrients. It just grows faster.
Now Americans can eat not only meat fed with improper genetically modified grains & corn and now get that genetically altered goodness subject to massive scrutiny due to the correlations between illness and ingestion straight from the meat itself, how lucky.
I'm so glad GMO's and HFCS are not an issue here, literally every time I'd go to America the food would make me so ill, even landing me in hospital, but you know if it's cheaper...people don't mind.
Companies aren't legally required to label genetically modified salmon, according to the FDA. The one sure way to avoid genetically modified salmon is to purchase the wild-caught variety, which is not genetically engineered, officials said.
Yay, the future. It betta taste good, then finally fish can be as cheap as chicken 
