Who Dares Question the Industrial Food System over GM Salmon?

[Ladyhawke1]

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/09/08-1#comment-1606930

Someone has to tell you, You are not going to hear about it on TV, or even the radio. :/

 

[lesa]

I signed a petition against this awhile ago. I guess it is pointless to ask when are we going to learn our lesson?? How much can we muck up our food supply?? I long for the day I don't even need to walk into a grocery store. Almost everything in the store is bad for you, one way or the other. We have a tiny "natural foods" area, which is where I do any of my shopping.
They are pretty sure the fish won't get out into the ocean and mingle with the wild fish....yeah right!! Thanks for the link!

 

[hoodat]

I alwys liked that line from Juassic Park, "Life finds a way".

 

[wifezilla]

I always think of Blinkie the 3 eyed fish from The Simpsons.

 

[Ariel301]

Another reason NOT to buy farm raised ocean fish.

Salmon farming is just as bad for the environment (if not worse) than wild catching the fish, in my opinion. It is done by netting off big sections of natural water near coastlines and filling the area up with fish. Those fish are so overcrowded that they are putting more ammonia into the water system than it can handle--a far worse problem than the issue of farms leaching nitrogen fertilizers into the water, the fish farms are putting a much higher concentration into the environment! Being overcrowded, the fish are more prone to disease and parasites. The netting that keeps them in (at least, is supposed to keep them in) does not keep wild salmon fry from swimming into the area, picking up diseases they have no resistance to because they don't have to deal with it in the wild, and then swimming back out into the wild population, which can then be decimated by disease and parasites brought from the farm.

 

[Warthog]

We never learn do we. My saying is muck about with nature and she will always bite back.

Few days ago my DH was telling me about an article he had read, (I seem to rember this related to the UK) that milk from cloned cows has now reached the human food chain.

It's pretty scary really.

 

[hoodat]

What is even scarier is that lab tests have shown that it can take 4 generations for the damage from GMO foods to show up. That means our great grandchildren may end up paying the price of the cheap food we are eating.

 

[sparkles2307]

all the more reason to have a commune in the mountains

 

[Ariel301]

all the more reason to have a commune in the mountains

I'm actually working on buying one lol...there's a ranch not far from me that was built for Y2K, it's got solar panels/batteries, a well, barns/outbuildings/pens/pastures, gardens...the lady who owns it is selling super cheap. I just have to get the money together! Then I will have pastured chickens/geese/turkeys, LaMancha, Nubian, and Boer goats, dairy sheep, and vegetables and fruit. There will be room for 3 or 4 families, it is almost 50 acres!

 

[Kim_NC]

My favorite line - have posted it before - but applies to the GM salmon as well....

"Do not mess with Creation, for you are small, insignificant and biodegradable."

Ariel, the 50 ac property sounds like a nice setup. Hope it works out for you.