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Chinook Salmon, Eel Genes in Salmon, FDA and GMO-ed foods, GMO-ed Salmon, Health, increased allergies from GMO-ed foods, Rubik, Rubik Cube, Salmon Nation
Rubik’s Cubes were too fast for me;
I needed to take my time;not like those Chinook Salmon
whose genome’s been spliced with an eel’s growth hormone gene
plus an antifreeze gene from another,
to make it mature in 18 months, half the time.
GMOs that get into the food chain are not labeled;
you can’t trace problems that arise from eating them.
FDA says no diff between wild and GMO-ed?
Rubik-cubed food: too fast for me.
PATTY 10/23/12
Too fast for me, too.
Love & peace!
http://justlabelit.org/ is the website with information on getting the FDA to have GMO-ed foods labeled.
Patty
Personally I favor the slow food movement philosophy ( and life as lived in Italy), I like my fish to be fish, not faked alaska.
Faked Alaska. Very punny.
Patty
That is a great photo of the salmon. I witnessed my first salmon run this year and was not fast enough to get any good pictures. It was fascinating to watch.
I’ve never seen a salmon run. It’s a great shot though, that’s for sure.
Patty
Great post Toni ! We eat salmon for their high omega 3, “fake” salmons have very little omega 3 and high omega 6 so its actually not very healthy. I’m actually getting concern about GMO foods, I’m just not too sure if they are really harmful.
Here are a few reasons to worry about GMOs:
1. We don’t know the health consequences of eating GMO-ed foods.
2 They’re banned in the UK and a couple of other dozen countries because of #1 (and various other worries about long-term use: what happens when the mutant genes mix it up with the bacterium in our digestive tracts, etc.)
3. Genetic engineering reduces genetic diversity. (As in our neighbor’s pure bred poodle is less robust than our little mutt.)
4. There’s no going back: GMO-ed organisms pass their modified traits on to whoever’s downwind.
5. GMO-ed crops aren’t creating greater yields, this in response to the GMOs will solve our global food security problem.
6. Mice and rats have not done well on their lab diet of GMO foods.
7. GMO firms are huge (Monsanto) hard to to pin down, not averse to tricky the poor farmer (as in sell them sterile seeds so they have to buy from us each year, etc.)
8. GMOs do require lots of pesticides, herbicides, etc.
See http://www.organicauthority.com/foodie-buzz/eight-reasons-gmos-are-bad-for-you.html for more.
Patty
Thanx for that info Patty. Thats really sad. I actually have a theory that more and more people are having a hard time getting pregnant or having birth defects because of the foods were eating nowadays.
The FDA needs to hear from people about their concerns. See this website: http://justlabelit.org/. There’s a message on this site you can send to the FDA asking that GMO-modified foods are identified as such. Cheers.
Patty
I guess we humans never tire of messing with nature… not always good idea.
I’m hoping that CA can have its way and require labeling GMO-ed foods. What I guess is that given a choice between buying a food with something spliced into it which would never have co-mingled with it to begin with (not to put too fine a point on it) and buying the straight up unadulterated food, people will choose the latter. This might put the brakes on a git.
Patty