GMO foods... Should they be labled?

[Lancecastor]

Theres a new fish in town.

Based on atlantic salmon, with the dna of chinook salmon and some kind of eel.

Grown in tanks, every fish is a sterile female.

But at your grocery store, it will be sold as Salmon.

Yum or Eww?

 

[BabblingBrooke]

Ew.

I want frankenfoods to be labeled. People should have the opportunity to make an informed decision about their food. Most, I suspect, won't care.

 

[Lancecastor]

http://ecodaily.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/gmo-trout.jpg

Some gmo salmon are posting in ampics.

 

[doctor_insanus]

I'm not opposed to them, since so many species of salmon are being driven to extinction, but I definitely want them labeled.

I'd give 'em a try.

 

[Lancecastor]

Fish has been the Last Wild Protein for a long time.

I don't think Most Dangerous Catch will be as compelling filmed in an Ohio tank.

 

[JohnnySavage]

Soon we will all be eating Soylent Green.

 

[yossi]

Soon we will all be eating Soylent Green.

As long as it's labeled...

 

[Lancecastor]

GMO foods get an automatic leg up by not having to disclose.

I guess it's no irony it isn't forced to fight for its place in the ecosystem of the consumer economy.

Or is it?

 

[chillywilly2]

As long as it's labeled...

Thats just the point...it won't be

 

[BotanyBoy]

It might not be bad.....

But The Farmers Assurance Provision (monsanto protection act) worries me a bit considering the timing.

Personally I'll keep eating from the back yard and covering the rest of it with the good stuff.

As long as it's labeled...

Yea don't count on that, over the last few years O has signed off on a number of laws protecting the shit out of biotech companies.

We will not get GMO labeling and if anything comes as a result these companies cannot be held responsible, they have been all but granted total immunity to poison all the people they want with total impunity.

 

[Lord Pmann]

I bet it tastes like loneliness.

 

[Liar]

We should give all different ways of unnatural manipulation of the food we buy an equally omnious sounding acronym. There'll be no room left on the package.

 

[pointless]

I'm not opposed to them, since so many species of salmon are being driven to extinction, but I definitely want them labeled.

I'd give 'em a try.

personally, if we can find away to farm fish and leave the wild populations alone i'm all for it whether it's genetically modified or not. i mean, i love albacore, but i seriously hate how close they are to being endangered. it really takes the joy out of eating their delicious, oil rich flesh.

 

[Lancecastor]

How the average American bra size has increased from 34B to 34DD over the past 30 years

go hormones!

 

[nerfhearder]

Pretty much everything we eat is genetically modified. They started doing that about 10 minutes after figuring out agriculture. I don't spend any time worrying about it.
If they can make the same fish without bothering other fish then that's fine by me, too.

 

[Lancecastor]

Pretty much everything we eat is genetically modified. They started doing that about 10 minutes after figuring out agriculture. I don't spend any time worrying about it.
If they can make the same fish without bothering other fish then that's fine by me, too.

GMO salmon has eel DNA in it.

FrankenFish.


Superweeds?

It’s possible that crops engineered to tolerate pesticides could breed with weeds and lead to the development of so-called superweeds, which would require increased pesticide use.

 

[nerfhearder]

GMO salmon has eel DNA in it.

FrankenFish.

So? People eat eels all the time. Supposed to be pretty good but I don't think I've ever had any.
When it comes to animals all they really need to do is give it a name so we know it's not an actual atlantic salmon or king salmon or whatever. That's only right. Otherwise who gives a shit?

 

[phrodeau]

Fish has been the Last Wild Protein for a long time.

I don't think Most Dangerous Catch will be as compelling filmed in an Ohio tank.

Ocean fish are full of chemicals. Tanked salmon would be healthier to eat, GM or not.

 

[chillywilly2]

Other than a few fish sticks when I was much younger I haven't bought fish in 40 years...and I eat lots of fish.
I just go catch them.
The meat I eat is mostly wild.
I am still eating potatoes and veggies from last years garden.

Yeah, I don't really care how they label food..I already know that anything you get in a package is mostly crap so I wouldn't be learning anything from a label

 

[hobbit.]

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[Lancecastor]

Ocean fish are full of chemicals. Tanked salmon would be healthier to eat, GM or not.

Salmon are ocean clean...it's the southern fish you have to watch, and don't eat anything out of the Gulf of Mexico.

In 2004, a widely-cited study found the levels of PCBs, a potentially carcinogenic chemical, to be ten times higher in farmed fish than in wild-caught fish. -

See more at: http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/he...ised-vs-wild-caught-fish#sthash.rNm03Vjk.dpuf

 

[nerfhearder]

Maybe when we get to Europa there will be fish. They'd be much cleaner than anything we'd get in our own oceans and possibly be able to shoot lasers from their eyes or something cool like that. Probably even look like salmon since those ugly things look like aliens to begin with.

 

[Sean Renaud]

Pretty much everything we eat is genetically modified. They started doing that about 10 minutes after figuring out agriculture. I don't spend any time worrying about it.
If they can make the same fish without bothering other fish then that's fine by me, too.

Okay people need to stop pretending that selective breeding and genetic engineering are the same thing. That ranks up there with the same kind of stupid that has people claiming that humans shouldn't worry about our impact on the environment because beavers have been damming rivers for millions of years.

Selectively breeding poodles from wolves is not the same as making a goat that spins goddamn spider webs. It just isn't. I'm not saying GMOs aren't safe, I'm quite confident that they are safe. I'm just saying that combaring Salmon Eel to a poodle is dishonest.

GMOs should be labeled. I occasionally hear issues with sticker size but put the important stuff there and then one of those QR codes on literally everything with an encyclopedia worth of information. It'll be like those Terms and Conditions forms on the internet where if they decided to bury "and you must only eat blue M&Ms for a month" in the middle nobody would notice until the Feds arrested you for eating Skittles. But a few brave and boring few would slog through it for pertinent information and present it to the rest of us.

 

[thør]

Soon we will all be eating Soylent Green.

https://soylent-production-herokuapp-com.global.ssl.fastly.net/static/images/drink_gallery5.546e2142f4c6.jpg

You can drink Soylent white, today.

 

[Lancecastor]

Okay people need to stop pretending that selective breeding and genetic engineering are the same thing.

Yupyupyup.