GMO salmon
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- Published on Monday, 03 February 2014 11:00
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Environment Canada just allowed the production of GMO salmon eggs, and Health Canada is the last barrier preventing mutant fish from landing on our dinner plates.
Tell Health Canada to reject FrankenSalmon that Canadian consumers don't want and that could harm our wild fish stock.
There is one last step before Canada becomes a live laboratory for the first GMO animal grown for human consumption.
Environment Canada let AquaBounty clear a crucial hurdle when it allowed the American company to produce genetically-modified salmon eggs on a commercial scale. Now, there is only one step left before mutant fish hits our dinner plates -- approval from Health Canada to allow GMO salmon for Canadian consumption.
You can bet that AquaBounty will now use...
all its resources to push for the sale of an organism that US agencies have refused to approve for Americans to consume for the last 18 years. If Health Canada approves GMO salmon, a new breed of farmed fish will soon be at your local grocer or seafood restaurant without you even recognizing it. Let’s tell Health Canada to reject mutant fish for human consumption in our country.
Mutant fish is a danger to our fish stock. Decades of commercial fish farming have shown that no matter how salmon is raised, they will escape. And when the GMO salmon gets out in the wild, it will have considerable risks to our native fish population as well as our coastal economies. Health Canada needs to reject GMO salmon now, to ensure these GMO salmon don't imperil our wild fish stock.
Once these GMO fish are in our grocery stores, consumers won't be able to avoid the genetically modified organism -- because corporations have fought tooth and nail against GMO labelling rules, pouring millions of dollars in lobbying in recent years. This is why we need to fight to stop GMO salmon from hitting stores in the first place.
There's still so much we don't know about GMO salmon. Community concern means that the American government has rejected mutant fish for the last 18 years. Canadians should not be the world's guinea pigs for the first GMO animal grown for human consumption.
Environment Canada’s approval process of AquaBounty’s commercial production of salmon eggs was done without consultation. Let's send a message to Health Canada so it can hear Canadians opposition to being the world’s first guinea pigs for mutant fish.
Health Canada: do not approve the sale of mutant fish that could harm Canadian wild fish stock.
Thanks for all that you do,
Angus and the rest of us.
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More Information:
Genetically Engineered Salmon. Ocean Conservancy.
Genetically modified salmon eggs approved commercially . CBC, November 25th, 2013.
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