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Fix the Farm, Not the SalmonBy Paul GreenbergWhen the New York Times reported in June of 2010 that the US Food and Drug Administration was "seriously considering" approving a genetically … More...

Fix the Farm, Not the SalmonBy Paul GreenbergWhen the New York Times reported in June of 2010 that the US Food and Drug Administration was "seriously considering" approving a genetically modified Atlantic salmon for American consumption the cries from environmentalists and food reformers were, predictably, almost audible on the streets. The AquAdvantage Salmon uses a "genetic on-switch" from a fish called an ocean pout (a very different animal) in combination Fix the Farm, Not the SalmonBy Paul GreenbergWhen the New York Times reported in June of 2010 that the US Food and Drug Administration was "seriously considering" approving a genetically modified Atlantic salmon for American consumption the cries from environmentalists and food reformers were, predictably, almost audible on the streets. The AquAdvantage Salmon uses a "genetic on-switch" from a fish called an ocean pout (a very different animal) in combination with a growth gene from a Chinook salmon to achieve double the growth rate of the unmodified creature. The animal's creator, AquaBounty Technologies of Waltham, MA asserts that the fish will be sterile and grown in out-of-ocean bio-secure containment structures. Nevertheless the emotional worry of genetic contamination of wild fish, the public preoccupation with health risks a modified salmon could pose, and just the overall ick-factor consumers seem to have about GMO food were all on display across the foodie and environmental blogosphere a few days after the Times article ran. But, curiously, perhaps the loudest groan that I heard in response to the AquaBounty successes came from salmon farmers. "What I have been noticing over the years," Thierry Chopin, an aquaculture researcher based in New Brunswick, Canada wrote me, "is that the aquaculture industry is not jumping to embrace what AquaBounty has been proposing." For years salmon farmers have been waging a public relations war, trying to gain legitimacy as an industry that could be both profitable and produce more food for a hungry world. When a paper published in the journal Nature in 2000 revealed that it took more than three pounds of wild forage fish to grow a single pound of farmed salmon, the salmon industry responded through selective breeding, increased use of soy and other agricultural products and more efficient feeding practices to lower the wild fish use of farmed salmon to the point where some Books, Nature~~General, Four-Fish~~Paul-Greenberg, , , , , , , , , , Brilliance Audio<

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