Genetically Engineered Salmon

[Typhoon]

I work in the seafood business for one of the big salmon distributors in Boston.

I don't think anyone will touch this with a 10 ft pole. We'll wait and see who has the balls to sell this fish.

[numbskull]

Originally Posted by Typhoon

I work in the seafood business for one of the big salmon distributors in Boston.

I don't think anyone will touch this with a 10 ft pole. We'll wait and see who has the balls to sell this fish.

Although I agree with you that people will be freaked, it makes no sense.

Adding a gene to an animal does not change the food content in any measurable way. You eat it, it gets digested into fat, carbos and proteins, which your body then breaks down further into fatty acids, amino acids, and sugars. Regardless of the source it all ends up the same.

A genetically engineered fish is made of the same stuff as a natural fish, and when you eat it it ends up exactly the same. There is no "extra" additives, the gene they add is DNA just like all the fish's other genes and gets digested just the same.

[JohnnyD]

Originally Posted by numbskull

Although I agree with you that people will be freaked, it makes no sense.

Adding a gene to an animal does not change the food content in any measurable way. You eat it, it gets digested into fat, carbos and proteins, which your body then breaks down further into fatty acids, amino acids, and sugars. Regardless of the source it all ends up the same.

A genetically engineered fish is made of the same stuff as a natural fish, and when you eat it it ends up exactly the same. There is no "extra" additives, the gene they add is DNA just like all the fish's other genes and gets digested just the same.

When you start screwing with the hormones of an animal, everything goes to hell. Just look at the average teenage girl.

[MarkB]

Originally Posted by JohnnyD

When you start screwing with the hormones of an animal, everything goes to hell. Just look at the average teenage girl.

After all the scare headlines, early puberty in girls correlates best with early obesity. At the end of the articles and documentaries on this subject, they always mention this last, although it is the most obvious explanation and makes the best sense biologically. Take a walk around WalMart some time and you'll see what I'm talking about. Fat parents with fat pre-schoolers. It's un-natural, and it's causing trouble in many ways.

[FishermanTim]

When you genetically alter food, you have no way of knowing what affect it will have on you because any affect will be gradual and cumulative over many years.
Kind of like wondering why there is an incerease in the number of cases of certain types of cancer, childhood ailments that used to be rare are now some of the most common "diseases" being treated.
Remember when childhood diabetes and autism were rarely ever seen or diagnosed? Now it's almost as common as a diaper rash!
We are being fed "altered" foods with the glorious "FDA" approval sticker and we eat it thinking that there's no way that it could be bad for us.

To coin a popular phrase: "The chickes have come home to roost!"
Unfortunately it's not US who are paying the price, but rather our children, and then their children, and so on...

What riles me most is that the research facilities claim to be working on cures for various diseases and ailments, but if they discover some penis pep pill that will make millions, well then cancer, ALS, AIDS or MS will have to wait because the world NEEDS a penis pill before everything else.

(Remember that VIAGRA was discovered as the result of a side effect from a cancer treatment and see what happened?)

I was watching the movie "SOYLENT GREEN" this past weekend, and it was funny how we seem to be heading down a similar path of social destruction.

[Raven]

Originally Posted by FishermanTim

I was watching the movie "SOYLENT GREEN" this past weekend, and it was funny how we seem to be heading down a similar path of social destruction.

As i'm sure "Justplugit" would agree with me
we are already there....

Still can't persuade Back beach Jake to eat his green wafers tho...
he's a stubborn old cuss

and Clammer well....he got stoned one Night,
got the munchies real bad and before we knew it
he ate the whole BOX watching re runs of the shield
now look at him.... he's a freakin wack JOB
i know because.........
he even placed a special order for genetically enhanced tomatoes

like this one...

[Raven]

Geez have a sense of Humor why don't ya...

[Raven]

if SCIENTISTS can implant a GENE into a Salmon to make it
grow all year LONG

then it can also genetically alter the plover to lay much larger
clutches of Eggs or mentally prefer nest boxes as apposed to groundnests (with a wood duck Gene)

and have them laying eggs 365 days a year
until there is no friggan shortage of them to the point we are
required to eat so many of them a year on bamboo shish kabob (sp) sticks... literally

Someone needs to ask this question to pres.OBAMA at a town meeting.