GMO salmon… blocked in the House?

Grist reports:

The eminent fisheries writer Paul Greenberg recently gutted and filleted the rationale for a novel type of farmed salmon genetically altered to grow faster. The “improved” fish, created by a Massachusetts-based company called AquaBounty Technologies, threatens to “escape and contaminate wild populations of salmon,” Greenberg wrote. And the business model AquaBounty has in [...]

FDA approves Frankenfish before public comment

The FDA has done it again. They’ve come out and released a preliminary statement that the Frankenfish is safe, despite a complete lack of safety studies to determine what sort of dangers this genetically modified organism will have on the environment or on those who consume it.

Public commentary is still scheduled to begin September [...]