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Salmon becomes first genetically modified animal OK'd for human consumption

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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br>Don't eat this shit or else you wanna get sick. <br><br>The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved genetically modified salmon, the first such altered animal allowed for human consumption in the United States. The Obama administration had stalled in approving the fast-growing salmon for more than five years amid consumer concerns about eating genetically modified foods. But the agency said Thursday the fish is safe to eat.</span><div>
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Salmon becomes first genetically modified animal OK'd for human consumption

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Everything You Need to Know About Farmed Salmon

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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Women, children and adolescents should avoid eating farmed salmon, according to Norwegian doctors and international experts. The reason is that salmon feed contains harmful pollutants.<br /><br />Talking to VG, specialist Anne-Lise Birch Monsen and Physician and professor of medicine, Bjørn Bolann say that it is uncertain in both the amount of toxins and how they affect children, adolescents and pregnant. They point out that the type of contaminants that have been detected in farmed salmon have a negative effect on brain development and is associated with autism, AD / HD and reduced IQ.<br /><br />A large European study involving about 8,000 newborns, shows that pregnant women with high levels of toxins in the body have children with lower birth weight, which may have an adverse effect on child health.<br /><br />Conservative party (Høyre) economic policy spokesman  Svein Flåtten asks fisheries minister to respond in the Parliament on whether Norwegian farmed salmon is dangerous to eat for children and pregnant women.</span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />I want to know what she can do to make Norwegian consumers and society sure that Norwegian farmed salmon is a healthy and clean product. That’s what we’ve been hearing from researchers for years, says Flåtten to NTB.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />He believes there is reason to take seriously the warning raised by doctors.<br /><br />- There is no doubt that such claims may have a negative effect on salmon industry. Therefore, it is important to clarify this quickly. I expect the health authorities to look closely at the findings discussed, he said.<br /><br />If you eat seafood, unless you catch it yourself or ask the right questions, the odds are pretty good it comes from a fish farm. The aquaculture industry is like a whale on steroids, growing faster than any other animal agriculture segment and now accounting for half the fish eaten in the U.S.<br /><br /><a href="http://worldtruth.tv/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/w-i-f-s-popup1-300x300.jpg"><img src="http://worldtruth.tv/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/w-i-f-s-popup1-300x300.jpg" /></a><br /><br />As commercial fishing operations continue to strip the world’s oceans of life, with one-third of fishing stocks <a href="http://www.sciencemag.org/content/314/5800/787.figures-only">collapsed</a> and the rest headed there by mid-century, fish farming is seen as a way to meet the world’s growing demand. But is it really the silver bullet to solve the Earth’s food needs? Can marine farms reliably satisfy the seafood cravings of three billion people around the globe?<br /><br />This article looks at aquaculture and its long-term effects on fish, people, and other animals. With this industry regularly touted as a paragon of food production, whether you eat seafood or not, you should know these nine key facts about farmed fish.<br /><br />1. Farmed fish have dubious nutritional value. The Omega-3 Levels are Not What You Think<br /><br />Here’s a frustrating paradox for those who eat fish for their health: the nutritional benefits of fish are greatly decreased when it’s farmed. Take omega-3 fatty acids. Wild fish get their omega-3’s from aquatic plants. Farmed fish, however, are often fed corn, soy, or other feedstuffs that contain <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/02/science/earth/02tilapia.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0">little or no omega-3’s</a>. This unnatural, high-corn diet also means some farmed fish accumulate unhealthy levels of the <a href="http://loginptr.elsevierhealth.com/PhoenixWeb/PhoenixServlet?d=http://www.journals.elsevierhealth.com">wrong fatty acids</a>. Further, farmed fish are routinely dosed with antibiotics, which can cause <a href="http://www.fda.gov/downloads/animalveterinary/guidancecomplianceenforcement/guidanceforindustry/ucm216936.pdf">antibiotic-resistant disease in humans</a>.<br /><br />2. The farmed fishing industry robs Peter to pay Paul. Small Prey Fish May be Driven to Extinction<br /><br />While some farmed fish can live on diets of corn or soy, others need to eat fish – and lots of it. Tuna and salmon, for example, need to eat up to <a href="http://www.esa.org/esa/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/issue8.pdf">five pounds of fish</a> for each pound of body weight. The result is that prey (fish like anchovies and herring) are being fished to the brink of extinction to feed the world’s fish farms. “We have caught all the big fish and now we are going after their food,” says the <a href="http://www.yumpu.com/en/document/view/11620121/hungry-oceans-pdf-oceana">non-profit Oceana</a>, which blames aquaculture’s voracious hunger for declines of whales, dolphins, seals, sea lions, tuna, bass, salmon, albatross, penguins, and other species.<br /><br /><a href="http://worldtruth.tv/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/farmed-wild.jpg"><img src="http://worldtruth.tv/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/farmed-wild.jpg" /></a><br /><br />3. Fish experience pain and stress.<br /><br />Contrary to the wishful thinking of many a catch-and-release angler, the latest research shows conclusively that fish <a href="http://hermes.mbl.edu/research/services/iacuc/pdf/pain_gold_fish09.pdf">experience pain and stress</a>. In <a href="http://www.researchgate.net/publication/10698966_Do_fishes_have_nociceptors_Evidence_for_the_evolution_of_a_vertebrate_sensory_system">one study</a>, fish injected with bee venom engaged in rocking behavior linked to pain and, compared to control groups, reduced their swimming activity, waited three times longer to eat, and had higher breathing rates. Farmed fish are subject to the <a href="https://news.uns.purdue.edu/x/2009a/090429GarnerPain.html">routine stresses</a> of hyperconfinement throughout their lives, and are typically killed in slow, painful ways like evisceration, starvation, or asphyxiation.<br /><br />4. Farmed fish are loaded with disease, and this spreads to wild fish populations.<br /><br />Farmed fish are packed as tightly as coins in a purse, with twenty-seven adult trout, for example, typically scrunched into a <a href="http://www.fao.org/docrep/010/a1290e/a1290e00.HTM">bathtub-sized space</a>. These unnatural conditions give rise to diseases and parasites, which often migrate off the farm and infect wild fish populations. On Canada’s Pacific coast, for example, sea lice infestations are responsible for <a href="http://www.adopt-a-fry.org/wp-content/uploads/file/MKetal_SCIENCE07.pdf">mass kill-offs</a> of pink salmon that have destroyed 80% of the fish in some local populations. But the damage doesn’t end there, because eagles, bears, orcas, and other predators depend on salmon for their existence. Drops in wild salmon numbers cause these species to <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/04/science/04prof.html?_r=0&adxnnl=1&pagewanted=all&adxnnlx=1383768020-tsihop0SZ40Q6YdSIuQPsQ">decline</a> as well.<br /><br />5. Fish farms are rife with toxins, which also damage local ecosystems.<br /><br />You can’t have diseases and parasites infecting your economic units, so operators fight back by dumping concentrated antibiotics and other chemicals into the water. Such toxins damage local ecosystems in ways we’re just beginning to understand. <a href="http://aquaculturereform.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/bp-lobster-or-non-target-toxic-effects.pdf">One study</a> found that a drug used to combat sea lice kills a variety of nontarget marine invertebrates, travels up to half a mile, and persists in the water for hours.<br /><br /><a href="http://worldtruth.tv/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/1010019_10154252068655355_565337636_n.jpg"><img src="http://worldtruth.tv/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/1010019_10154252068655355_565337636_n.jpg" /></a><br /><br />6. Farmed fish are living in their own feces.<br /><br />That’s right, fish poop too. Farmed fish waste falls as sediment to the seabed in sufficient quantities to overwhelm and kill marine life in the immediate vicinity and for some distance beyond. It also promotes algal growth, which reduces water’s oxygen content and makes it hard to support life. When the Israeli government learned that algal growth driven by two fish farms in the Red Sea was hurting nearby coral reefs, it shut them down.<br /><br />7. Farmed fish are always trying to escape their unpleasant conditions, and who can blame them?<br /><br />In the North Atlantic region alone, up to two million <a href="http://www.readcube.com/articles/10.1038/425753a">runaway salmon</a> escape into the wild each year. The result is that at least 20% of supposedly wild salmon caught in the North Atlantic are of <a href="http://icesjms.oxfordjournals.org/content/56/2/200.full.pdf">farmed origin</a>. Escaped fish breed with wild fish and compromise the gene pool, harming the wild population. Embryonic hybrid salmon, for example, are far less viable than their wild counterparts, and adult hybrid salmon routinely <a href="http://www.readcube.com/articles/10.1038/425753a">die earlier</a> than their purebred relatives. This pressure on wild populations further hurts predators who rely on fish like bears and orcas.<br /><br />8. See: the Jevons Paradox.<br /><br />This counterintuitive economic theory says that as production methods grow more efficient, demand for resources actually increases – rather than decreasing, as you might expect. Accordingly, as aquaculture makes fish production increasingly efficient, and fish become more widely available and less expensive, demand increases across the board. This drives more fishing, which hurts wild populations. Thus, as the construction of new salmon hatcheries from 1987 to 1999 drove lower prices and wider availability of salmon, world demand for salmon increased <a href="http://www.iser.uaa.alaska.edu/people/knapp/personal/pubs/TRAFFIC/The_Great_Salmon_Run.pdf">more than fourfold </a>during the period. The net result: fish farming cranks up the pressure on already-depleted populations of wild fish around the world.<br /><br />9. When the heavy environmental damage they cause is taken into account, fish farming operations often are found to generate more costs than revenues.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301479784710139">One study</a> found that aquaculture in Sweden’s coastal waters “is not only ecologically but also economically unsustainable.” Another report concluded that fish farming in a Chinese lake is an “economically irrational choice from the perspective of the whole society, with an unequal tradeoff between environmental costs and economic benefits.” Simply put, aquaculture drives heavy ecological harms and these cost society money. In the U.S., fish farming drives hidden costs of roughly $700 million each year – or <a href="http://www.docstoc.com/docs/113852965/Fisheries-and-Aquaculture-Landings-Up-But-Farmed-Production-Revenues-Down">half the annual production value</a> of fish farming operations.<br /><br />Source:<br /><br />http://www.tnp.no/<br /><br /><a href="http://meatonomics.com/">David Robinson Simon</a><br /><br /> http://worldtruth.tv</span></div>
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Everything You Need to Know About Farmed Salmon

Women, children and adolescents should avoid eating farmed salmon, according to Norwegian doctors and international experts. The reason is t...

Super salmon or 'Frankenfish'?

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<div style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-top: 0em; outline: 0px; padding: 0.6em 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A Massachusetts company wants to market a genetically engineered version of Atlantic salmon, and regulators are weighing the request. If approval is given, it would be the first time the government allowed such modified animals to join the foods that go onto the nation's dinner tables.</span></div><div style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-top: 0em; outline: none; padding: 0.6em 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ron Stotish, chief executive of AquaBounty, said at Monday's first of two days of hearings that his company's fish product is safe and environmentally sustainable.</span></div> <br />
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<div style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-top: 0em; outline: none; padding: 0.6em 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img alt="Image: Genetically engineered AquAdvantage Salmon with an Atlantic salmon" src="http://media3.s-nbcnews.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/100920-salmon-hmed-3a.grid-8x2.jpg" /></span></div><div style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-top: 0em; outline: 0px; padding: 0.6em 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Food and Drug Administration officials have largely agreed with him, saying that the salmon, which grows twice as fast as its conventional "sisters," is as safe to eat as the traditional variety. But they have not yet decided whether to approve the request.</span></div><div style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-top: 0em; outline: none; padding: 0.6em 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Critics call the modified salmon a "frankenfish" that could cause allergies in humans and the eventual decimation of the wild salmon population. An FDA advisory committee is reviewing the science of the genetically engineered fish this week and hearing such criticisms as the agency ponders approval.</span></div><div style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-top: 0em; outline: 0px; padding: 0.6em 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Whether the public will have an appetite for it is another matter. Genetic engineering is already widely used for crops, but the government until now has not considered allowing the consumption of modified animals. Although the potential benefits — and profits — are huge, many people have qualms about manipulating the genetic code of other living creatures.</span></div><div style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-top: 0em; outline: 0px; padding: 0.6em 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Part of the hearing is focusing on labeling of the fish. It is possible that if the modified salmon is approved, consumers would not even know they were eating it. Current FDA regulations require modified foods to be labeled as such only if the food is substantially different from the conventional version, and the agency has said that the modified salmon is essentially the same as the Atlantic salmon.</span></div><div style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-top: 0em; outline: 0px; padding: 0.6em 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If approved, the fish could be in grocery stores in two years, the company estimates.</span></div><div style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-top: 0em; outline: none; padding: 0.6em 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Approval would open the door for a variety of other genetically engineered animals, including a pig that is being developed in Canada or cattle that are resistant to mad cow disease. Each would have to be individually approved by the FDA.</span></div><div style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-top: 0em; outline: 0px; padding: 0.6em 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"For future applications out there the sky's the limit," said David Edwards of the Biotechnology Industry Association. "If you can imagine it, scientists can try to do it."</span></div> <br />
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<div style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-top: 0em; outline: 0px; padding: 0.6em 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">AquaBounty says it would be the first in the world to market genetically engineered fish. The company submitted its first application for FDA approval in 1995, but the agency did not decide until two years ago to consider applications for genetically engineered animals — a move seen as a breakthrough by the biotechnology industry.</span></div><div style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-top: 0em; outline: 0px; padding: 0.6em 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Critics have two main concerns: The safety of the food to humans and the salmon's effect on the environment.</span></div><div style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-top: 0em; outline: 0px; padding: 0.6em 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Because the altered fish has never been eaten before, they say, it could include dangerous allergens, especially because seafood is highly allergenic. They also worry that the fish will escape and intermingle with the wild salmon population, which is already endangered.They would grow fast and consume more food to the detriment of the conventional wild salmon, the critics fear.</span></div><div style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-top: 0em; outline: 0px; padding: 0.6em 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Source: </span></div><div style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-top: 0em; outline: 0px; padding: 0.6em 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/id/39265727/ns/health-food_safety/t/super-salmon-or-frankenfish-fda-decide/#.UtcSDdJDut1"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://www.nbcnews.com/id/39265727/ns/health-food_safety/t/super-salmon-or-frankenfish-fda-decide/#.UtcSDdJDut1</span></a></div><br />
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