Stop GE Fish

With your support, the Center for Food Safety (CFS) has successfully stopped the commercialization of genetically engineered crops such as alfalfa, wheat, rice, sugar beets, and pharmaceutical crops. Now we are faced with a new challenge -- the pending approval of GE salmon. Through our legal petitions and pressure on federal agencies and our government, we've been able to keep this hazardous new fish out of our waters and off our plates for the past ten years. Unfortunately, FDA -- under serious pressure from the biotech industry -- is now set to approve GE salmon, making this the first GE animal ever approved for human consumption.

These GE fish pose serious risks to wild and native salmon and our marine environment and could potentially outcompete, and wipe-out, any remaining native salmon populations. To make matters worse, the human health impacts of eating GE fish are completely unknown. Because GE fish may be susceptible to more diseases than other fish, the amount of antibiotics given to transgenic fish may be higher. As a result, consuming GE fish could lead to the ingestion of harmful antibiotics or contribute to the existing problem of antibiotic resistance in humans. Additionally, GE salmon are lower in Omega 3 and Omega 6 fatty acids than wild salmon, and have more of a potentially dangerous artificial growth hormone. ...

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• GMOs
• genetically enginered fish
• GE salmon
• Center for Food Safety

[fishrcoolturtles2]

@fishrcoolturtles2 in that genetically modified animals are bad all of them I mean cats dogs fish birds we shouldn't be allowed to change them for the benefit of us.

[fishrcoolturtles2]

The same could be said about dogs cats and almost every domesticated animal in the world we humans have been doing this for 1000,s of years but I have to say I agree

[theseventhprotocol]

Those crazy bastards want to kill us and the environment with GE foods.They know most people won't buy GE food and that's why they won't label GE food to give us a choice.