Health Buzz: FDA to Review Genetically Modified Salmon

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they are recomending no labeling,say it is the same so it does not require a label.i disagree but i think any salmon not g-m will be labeled before long.labeling should be required on all g-m food.the corn and soybeans are all g-m.there is a 2 week public comment period about this.dont know the web site was looking for it when i got here.

mike of CO 9:28PM September 20, 2010

I buy only wild Alaskan salmon or pacific northwest salmon grown in Washington local waters. No farm raised or genetically engineered salmon for me. I consider any food genetically altered to be unsafe.

Natalie of WA 7:06PM September 20, 2010

The fact that some FDA folk get kickbacks or not is not important to me.
What is important is that consumers be given the choice to pick GMO VS NON-GMO foods by clearly labeling the foods.
This is a basic right to be given information on labels so we can decide what we want to ingest.
For the people who are afraid that GMO would then be avoided if labeled, just look at the packaging on cigarettes and count the deaths by lung cancer and tell me if knowing all this stops people from smoking altogether?
If GMO was that great why would companies that manufacture these products avoid posting that information on packaging and why not be proud of the achievement instead?
As a citizen and a consumer all I am asking is to know what I am buying.
Would you buy a car on a photograph, without been given any information about it except what it looks like without the guarantee that it's actually working? Even then don't you want to go see for yourself?
That's what is asked of us with things we feed our children with!!

Serge of VT 5:09PM September 20, 2010

Genetically Modified(GM) foods came about as a way to reduce the amount of chemicals. Most GM-Crops use tungsten pellets to shoot genetic material into a plant and then allowed to mature and seeds are harvested and tested. That way they can reduce the number of herbicides and pesticides they have to use to grow that plant, making it cheaper and healthier. This came opposition of a powerful competitor: Organic. Look at the mud slinging has got us: A more expensive and dangerous with the the salmonella outbreaks(caused by unpasteurized manure fertilizer used in organic farming).
While I'm not keen on GM-animals just yet, and definitely against the use of hormones on cattle and other food sources. Just don't believe all the propaganda against this.

Michael Smitts of CO 4:33PM September 20, 2010

http://www.fda.gov/AboutFDA/ContactFDA/default.htm

peter of NY 3:22PM September 20, 2010

The FDA knows about the dangerous of gentically modified foods and chemcial. They "say" that the danger is small or unknown. The FDA gets kickbacks from the chemical druggers of the food supply. A salmon was fine and did not need any help from drug companies. The diabetes and obesity problem IS DUE TO CHEMICALS IN THE FOOD and this has been proven!
A filmmaker has been reversing diabetes and obesity WITHOUT DRUGS in now 10 countries but the FDA does not promote this
just google SPIRIT HAPPY DIET

Janet of CA 2:10PM September 20, 2010