Would you eat the new Franken-Salmon?

[vi edit]

They are so not just cross breeding fish.

If you think we could do it by natural means why do you think we havent?

Probably because the money and market wasn't there for it.

 

[WelshBloke]

Probably because the money and market wasn't there for it.

Or because its the equivalent of cross breeding frogs with salmon?

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

I haven't a problem as long as they are raised inland and landlocked. I'd give it a shot and would buy it based on price and taste.

 

[Pocatello]

No, I think we should eat all the fish in the wild first. After all the fish stock in the ocean has been depleted, then we should consider eating modified fish.

 

[daw123]

I will not eat GM fish or any other GM food.

There is a big difference between deliberately breeding and genetically modifying desirable characteristics into fish or livestock. I feel (maybe ignorantly) that they are fucking about with something that they cannot guarantee is a 100% safe to us and has no potential of causing ecological harm.

 

[WelshBloke]

I haven't a problem as long as they are raised inland and landlocked. I'd give it a shot and would buy it based on price and taste.

You can guarantee the first thing they will do is make them immune to pesticides then drench the pens with it.

Thats what they have done every other time.

 

[0roo0roo]

????????

We dont (cant) cross breed cattle with frogs.

The difference in the above example is less than some of the ones under trial at the moment.

you realize dna is dna right😛

 

[IGBT]

you guys think nothing about the crap you eat at fast food sleaze joints and now your worry about this??

 

[dawp]

That's fine, but they aren't breeding cattle with frogs. They are combining fish. We cross breed different types of cattle, dogs, and yes even fish with other breeds to obtain specfic traits.

cross breeding is one thing, this is not cross breeding. this is splicing in a specific gene for a specific trait. The study used by the fda was provided by the same company that did the splicing. there should also be a study from an independent source to either back up or refute those findings.

like the line from jurasic park:

Dr. Ian Malcolm: Yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.

 

[ahenkel]

cross breeding is one thing, this is not cross breeding. this is splicing in a specific gene for a specific trait. The study used by the fda was provided by the same company that did the splicing. there should also be a study from an independent source to either back up or refute those findings.

like the line from jurasic park:

Dr. Ian Malcolm: Yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.

As long as the giant mutated fish don't learn to defeat the electric fence I think I'll sleep ok

 

[JSt0rm]

Not true. While the vast majority of Atlantic salmon is farm raised, wild Atlantic salmon can also be had and will be labeled as such.

And you would be incorrect - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_salmon

Good information but what you source at the supermarket is not this.

100,000 remain lol. You think we are stocking the supermarkets with this fish?

 

[ebaycj]

Plus, the FDA can't mandate a label on such genetically manufactured fish.

FDA is on verge of allowing fish to market.


Would you eat such a fish?

In this case, I likely would eat said fish without knowing it.

 

[JSt0rm]

In this case, I likely would eat said fish without knowing it.

I'm at the point that I wont eat farm raised salmon. So no I wont be eating this fish as they cant say its wild.

 

[Circlenaut]

No fish tastes better then wild king salmon, mmmmm.

 

[Ns1]

Still not seeing why i shouldn't

 

[sdifox]

We are killing the ocean and once the sea goes, the planet goes. I don't think we have to worry about the potential side effects of this fish.