Canada approves genetically modified salmon for food

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Canada's health ministry on Thursday approved a type of genetically modified salmon as safe to eat, making it the first transgenic animal destined for Canadian dinner tables.

This comes six months after US authorities gave the green light to sell the fish in American grocery stores.
The decisions by Health Canada and the US Food and Drug Administration follow two decades of controversy over the fish, which is an Atlantic salmon injected with genes from Pacific Chinook salmon and a fish known as the ocean pout to make it grow faster.
The resulting fish, called AquAdvantage Salmon, is made by AquaBounty Technologies in Massachusetts, and can reach adult size in 16 to 18 months instead of 30 months for normal Atlantic salmon.


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[Viva_La_Revolution]

1. it has been spliced with genes from another fish.. i would eat it unless it's farmed

[GliderGuider]

2. There's the rub. Of course it will be farmed, but

I wonder about the consequences of genetic escape into the wild fish populations.

And by "wonder" I mean "freak right the fuck out."

[Nihil]

3. From the OP, the whole point of doing it is for the fish farmers so yes, it will be farmed.

Hope that they market it as "salmon-ish" rather than pretending that it is
normal (Atlantic or Pacific) salmon. Bet they don't.