Here's the latest Global News Update in the 'Salmon Wars' raging against filthy feedlots in Canada, Chile, Norway, Scotland, Ireland, New Zealand, United States and Australia.
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“Don’t eat farmed organic salmon this Christmas!” (Salmon Farms Ireland, 24 December)
“Ready to eat - the first GM fish for the dinner table: US decision after 17-year battle over fast-growing salmon could pave way for same step in Britain” (The Independent, 24 December)
“Super-salmon that are genetically modified to grow twice as fast a step closer to our dining table” (The Daily Telegraph, 24 December)
“Genetically modified 'Frankenfish' set to hit shelves after FDA finds salmon that grows twice as fast as normal poses no threat to human health” (The Daily Mail, 23 December)
“Super salmon shares to leap” (Sunday Times, 23 December)
“Salmon giant caught on European competition hook as deal nets 36% of Scottish production” (Sunday Herald, 23 December)
“Salmon Sales Exceed £22 Million” (Hamilton Advertiser, 23 December)
“Sea lice debate turns directly confrontational” (For Argyll, 23 December)
“Trout Unlimited wary of genetically engineered salmon” (The Spokesman Review, 23 December)
“Biotech cheers U.S. GMO salmon study” (UPI, 22 December)
“FDA Misses the Boat in Signaling Approval of Genetically-Engineered Salmon” (National Geographic, 22 December)
“Frankenfish salmon not harmful per FDA/GMO salmon egg sales plan alarms environmentalists ” (The Examiner, 22 December)
“AK senators oppose genetically-modified salmon” (Anchorage Daily News, 22 December)
“Begich Alarmed by FDA Report on Frankenfish: Calls on Alaskans to Make Public Their Opposition to GE Salmon” (Political News, 22 December)
“Genetically altered salmon are safe, FDA says” (The Washington Post, 22 December)
“Transgenic fish wins US regulatory backing: A fast-growing salmon moves closer to approval after a fishy delay” (Nature, 22 December)
“Alaska Delegation Fillets GM Salmon Report” (KTUU News, 21 December)
“Anti- salmon farm environmentalist punished” (Fish Farming Xpert/Norwegian Fish Farmer, 21 December)
“Bankruptcy now ‘highly unlikely’ for AquaBounty” (Intrafish, 20 December)
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Including in The Daily Mail (23 December):
Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska: "This is especially troubling as the agency is ignoring the opposition by salmon and fishing groups, as well as more than 300 environmental, consumer and health organizations"
From Political News (22 December):
“Sen. Mark
Begich, Chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Oceans and Fisheries, blasted
the announcement by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on its draft report
finding that genetically engineered salmon holds “no significant impact” on the
environment or public health.
“The notion that consuming Frankenfish is safe for the public and our oceans is
a joke,” Begich said. “I will fight tooth and nail with my Alaska colleagues to
make sure consumers have a clear choice when it comes to wild and sustainable
versus lab-grown science projects.”
From KTUU News (21 December):
“Rep. Don Young said he hoped to pass labeling requirements meant to keep the modified fish off the market. “In the 113th Congress, I plan to reintroduce legislation that will at a bare minimum require genetically engineered salmon to be labeled to ensure that the public knows what they are purchasing at the grocery store and feeding to their families,” Young said.
From The Washington Post (22 December):
“You keep those damn fish out of my waters. It will ruin what I think is one of the finest products in the world,” Young said in an interview, saying he fears that the spread of fish farms could eventually contaminate the wild salmon industry in Alaska. He wants to force delays in any FDA approval. “If I can keep this up long enough, I can break that company,” he said, referring to AquaBounty, “and I admit that’s what I’m trying to do.”
Watch a video on GE salmon via CBC News online via GMO salmon egg sales plan alarms environmentalists
From George Leonard writing in National Geographic (22 December):
“Given FDA’s action yesterday and NOAA’s failure to prohibit GE fish in its aquaculture policy, the time has come for Congress to intervene. Congress should work to pass Senator Mark Begich’s PEGASUS Act or similar legislation that requires FDA to take the environmental risks seriously before approving GE fish. If Congress doesn’t act soon, the nation’s ocean may suffer from FDA’s efforts to chart a course for GE salmon.”
From The Independent (24 December):
“The verdict clears one of the last remaining hurdles for GM salmon to be lawfully sold and eaten in the US and will put pressure on salmon producers in Britain and Europe to follow suit. Successive chief scientists to the UK Government, as well as science institutions such as the Royal Society, have endorsed the concept of GM technology as a tool for increasing food production in the 21st Century, but consumer opposition has so far blocked the approval of GM food for the dinner table.
Several government bodies including the advisory committees on the release of GM organisms and on novel foods and processes would have to review the technology before it was approved in the UK. Supporters of the technology believe the GM salmon will make it not only easier and cheaper to produce farmed salmon, but that it could also be better for the environment because they can be grown on land-based fish farms.”
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Global News Archive:
Global News Updates include the 'Salmon Wars' raging against filthy feedlots in Canada, Chile, Norway, Scotland, Ireland, New Zealand, United States and Australia:
22 December - “Apocalypse Here”/“GE Salmon Approval”/“Sea Lice Levels Up”/“Greens Slam New Farms”- online here
20 December - “Farm Cesspit”/“Sea Lice Levels High”/“ISA Confirmed”/“Urgent Review on West Coast”/“Protest March” - online here
17 December - “Boycott Urged”/“Gathering Ireland”/“Senseless Destruction”/“AGD Alert”/“Sea of Protest”/“Filthy Fish Farms OUT!” - online here
12 December - Global News Update: “Feck Off to Fish Farms”/“GM Salmon May Sink”/“ISA Allegations”/“Seal-Shooting Salmon Farmers”/“Opposition Mounts” – online here
21 November - “Showdown Looming”/“Fish Farm Fight”/“A Difficult 2013 Forecast”/“Devastating Impact” – online here
13 November - “Suffocating the Sounds”/“Skye Waters Against”/“Lice Death Claims”/“Battle Norwegian Fish Farms” – online here
7 November - “Flesh-Eating Lice”/“Chlamydia & Gill Disease”/“Strong Opposition”/“Risky Salmon Farms”/“Scotland’s Salmon Wars” - online here
2 November - “Flying the Flag”/”Cohen Report”/“Curb Fish Farm Impact”/“Loggerheads” - online here
1 November - “Justice Cohen Gets Tough”/“Freeze On Farms”/“Cross-Appeal Vs Cermaq” - online here
31 October - “Watch Live”/“Cohen Report Tracker”/“Flying the Flag”/“Report Released Today” - online here
30 October - “Here Comes Cohen!”/“Probe Shows Need for Reform”/“Uncalled-for Attack”/“Respected Scientist” - online here
28 October - “Deadline Looms”/“Mystery Illness”/“Mass Sickness”/“Not Defamatory Enough” - online here
23 October - “Halt Fish Farm Growth”/“Disease Hits Cermaq”/“Like Cancer”/“Is Truth a Tactic?”- online here
18 October - “Teen Fights Salmon Farms”/“Lawsuit Threat”/“Cermaq Appeal”/”Health Indicators Worsen” – online here
15 October - “Sicko Salmon”/“Farms & Disease”/“PR Disaster”/“Passionate Pleas” – online here
3 October - “Salmonella Outbreak”/Activist Wins”/“Boaties Protest”/“Lynch Mob” - online here
28 September - “Judgment Day”/“Salmon Sludge Fouls Hearing”/“Students Oppose Farms” - online here
24 September - “Flotilla Protest”/“Shooting Seals Row”/“Farm Not Welcome” - online here
11 September - “Dirty Secrets”/“FishyLeaks: Toxic Toilets”/“Disease Risk” - online here
29 August - “Virus Trackers”/“Compensation Culture”/“Say No to 9 New Salmon Farms” - online here
8 August - “Legal
Strategy”/“Wave of Controversy”/“IHN Virus” - online
here
3 August - “Fatal Virus Detected in BC”/“Fish Farm
Quarantined” - online
here
31 July - “IHN Virus Spreads”/“Norway’s Olympic Mascot”/”Playing With
Fire” - online
here
20 July -
“Norwegian Fish Farm Virus Found in BC”/”ISA Confirmed”/“A Fishy Tale” - online
here
17 July - “FishyLeaks”/“ISA in BC”/“Scotland’s Secrets” - online
here
13 July - “Aquaculture PR Wars”/“Beware Mother Nature”/“Trouble
Brewing” - online
here
11 July - "Salmon Wars Are Here"/"Smoking
Gun"/"Canada disease cleanup" - online
here
9 July - "Killer Panda"/"Quarantined Salmon to be Destroyed"/"PR War Waged" - online here!
6 July - "CFIA quarantines fish farm"/"Parasite found in
Norwegian-owned salmon" - online
here!
4 July - "Parasite-ridden salmon sold in BC stores"/"95%
of BC salmon is BAP certified" - online
here!