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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration gave the green light Friday to genetically modified salmon that grow about twice as fast as normal.
The FDA lifted an alert which
Prevented AquaBounty from importing its salmon eggs to its Indiana facility, where they would be grown before being sold as food. The agency noted the salmon has already undergone safety reviews, and that it lifted its alert because the fish would be subject to a new regulation that will require companies to disclose when a food is bioengineered.
Compliance with the disclosure regulations will start showing up in 2020 and becomes mandatory in 2022.
As one might expect, the FDA is under suit by various groups opposed to the sale of the fish.
Called AquAdvantage, the fish is Atlantic salmon modified with DNA from other fish species to grow faster, which the company says will help feed growing demand for animal protein while reducing costs.
The fish are bred female and sterile in containment tanks to help allay fears about them entering the environment.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 11 2019, @03:55AM (8 children)
All I see is: Great, another mutant that generates low quality meat for poor people I need to not buy. They already fucked up the chickens around here, why not the fish? Tenderloins are getting to be the same too. Grass fed or organic is worth like 2x as much as "regular", because there is something wrong with "regular".
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday March 11 2019, @04:14AM (6 children)
I won't disagree on the chickens. They're essentially all the next best thing clones. Seriously, their gene pool really is absolutely that tiny. They're perfectly acceptable for eating though, the layers just produce lame, flavorless eggs.
Oh, but fuck vegetarian-fed chickens. Chickens are omnivores and if you don't let them do their omnivore thing, you get scrawny, sickly birds and shitty tasting eggs.
Beef cattle and pork are not remotely the same though. Not even a little bit. They have amazingly varied gene pools and many different breeds and crossbreeds. Grass fed beef tastes like ass compared to beef that gets some grain, fat, and vitamins/minerals that the cow wouldn't normally have easy access to in its diet as well, just in case you were wondering. It's way lower in fat content and well placed fat is what makes meat juicy and delicious. I'll take a feed lot finished cow any day of the week because I know it's going to be from a healthier animal, have better marbling, and cost less.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 11 2019, @04:21AM (3 children)
Do you ever have any of these symptoms?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein_poisoning [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 3, Interesting) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday March 11 2019, @04:34AM (2 children)
Not even kind of. I get most of my calories per day from fats. I use heavy cream in my coffee and big heaping wads of real no-bullshit butter anywhere it wouldn't be grossly inappropriate to put butter. Why? Because it's delicious, duh. Fuck cholesterol. It's possible I'll die sooner but I guarantee I'll have wrung more enjoyment out of life in my shorter time than you will if you live to be two hundred.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 11 2019, @03:59PM (1 child)
Why so serious!!?!
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday March 11 2019, @05:35PM
That wasn't serious. That rant was entirely faux-hysterical. Over the top isn't just a crappy old Stallone movie, it's also a humor style.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 11 2019, @11:15PM (1 child)
Feed lot finished cows aren't healthier. Feed lots use corn, and corn-fed cows have GI troubles. Feed lots also have issues with waste disposal. Feed lot finished cows do cost less.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday March 12 2019, @03:47AM
They don't live long enough for corn to give them any serious issues. Waste issues are a problem but again, they don't spend long periods in a feed lot; just enough to add some fat so they weigh more and taste better.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by curunir_wolf on Monday March 11 2019, @08:04PM
I am a crackpot