Glowing Sushi Cooking Show Trailer

The Glowing Sushi cooking show uses everyday ingredients and some simple kitchen chemistry to explore cutting edge biotechnology. Each episode we show viewers how to easily replicate our experiments in their own home. http://www.glowingsushi.com

Americans consume the products of genetically modified organisms in industrially produced soda and cheese everyday, but the genetically modified organisms we eat are usually invisible. Glowing Sushi makes the eating of GMOs a very visible act, creating a prompt for viewers to consider and debate what is innovative and acceptable within the life sciences. Is inserting a transgene innovative? Is taking transgenic fish out of the lab and selling them innovative? Is marketing them as pets innovative? Is selling a pet fish with terms of service innovative? Is eating them innovative? Are these acceptable practices?

We believe that Glowing Sushi is involves many levels of innovation. The US Food and Drug Administration only recently developed comprehensive recommendations for approving genetically modified animals for sale as drugs. GloFish are not consumed as drugs, but the US FDA was willing to be an innovative regulator and continues to approve their sale anyway. Yorktown Technology saw an opportunity to take an animal out of the lab and make it a product. Although originally intended as an environmental sensor Yorktown Technologies innovated by patenting and trademarking the fish and marketing them as pets. Glowing sushi innovates one step further by making Genetically Modified ingredients more visible. (They Glow!) If consumers are unhappy about how GMOs are regulated they can always write to the USDA or their congressperson and support mandatory labeling of GMOs, or attempt to stop the approval of Aqua Bounty Salmon. Companies should remember that individuals will always find their own use for new technologies, even if it is not the use that companies intended.

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[MiddleChild1111]

The fish glow because a gene encoding for bio-luminescent protein, isolated from jellyfish, was inserted into their genomes. As far as I know, these proteins should be safe for human consumption. Did the FDA test this yet?

Anyway, I don't think the point of this video is to impress us with their "innovative" sushi.

Why do we make a fuss over eating a GM higher organism, but are more than willing to consume GM products in the form of medicines from lower organisms?

[apis apis]

does her poop glow?

[RagedPanda00]

First of all the fish we buy at the supermarket are usually wild caught or farmed raised. These fish may be farmed raised but they are injected with chemicals which makes them that color. If you had any common sense you would know. And these fish were meant to be pets. Thats why these fish are found in PET STORES and not SUPERMARKETS. Idiots, just shut up and stop going around replying to every fucking comment. This is old as fuck, get over it.

[prahanormal]

You keep salmon and tuna as pets?

[Elani Shikai]

well dont eat fucking fish at all idiot

[Elani Shikai]

thank you for that point!!

[Elani Shikai]

what the fuck you idiot?? why dont you just not eat fish at all? you know that we could all stop eating fish and instead adopt them! the difference between those fish and the fish we eat is that these ones are alive and they cost a shitload more, so unless you are vegan, you have no excuse

[guigal2]

Why is it any more cruel to eat a pet fish than a fish you bought at the supermarket?

[prahanormal]

Don't eat fish that were meant to be pets. That's dumb.

[Gerardo Arsor]

Sushi

[OfGlitzandGlory]

oh shut the fuck up about how these are pets they're animals that humans can safely consume so we have every right to eat their biologically inferior asses

[XxdeathlovesusxX]

:( I could never eat this. I have pet glofish.......