If GMOs are so safe and so healthy...

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9. I assume this is salmon related.

It's taken a couple of decades, give or take, to get over the regulartory hurdles.

The recommendation to approve the fast-grow salmon was written and submitted well over a year ago. All the scientific info, safety info, etc., etc. All the science-based ts were crossed and is were dotted. What was left were the politics.

For the last 30 years I've disliked when politics gets in the way of science. I can understand it when there's a bit of regulation and it's an important campaign issue or when there's a huge outcry over it because regulation in a democratic society ultimately has to serve social goals, even if it does need to be weighed against private interests.

I haven't seen this in this case. Instead I see people in the same party that decried political manipulation of scientific reports when it suited them and demand scientific manipulation of scientitif reports when it suits them. (As opposed to before, when the other party demanded manipulation of scientific reports because it suited them, but now decry political manipulation of scientific reports because it suits them.)