Modified Salmon..

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This just grossed me out.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/04/he...lmon.html?_r=1

I have nothing against cloning, but this type of thing is just annoying..

It's pretty much making an animal grow faster so we can kill it sooner.
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  • One of the major problems with this, is that the Salmon will no longer be going back to their spawning grounds, which are all ecosystems dependent on their return.

    Salmon were once so plentiful in the Columbia River Basin, Indian legends told of being able to "walk across the river on their backs" the river was so full. Because of this, the Indian tribes of the Columbia were noted as some of the richest of all in the Americas - Tribes for 1000's of miles would come to trade for the Salmon, even tales of Cahokia and beyond.
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  • It seems to me that it would be a tad wise now since we are in the midst of a major extinction, to do what we can to restore the earth - not turn it into a freak show for our own gain. Um..........we've been doing that and it's NOT workin' for us.
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  • But - how do we modify them so they already come in cans ??? :confused:

    Might as well go one step further, and make them 'boneless' too...
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    • Wow.

      Good argument.

      Makes a lot of sense sadly because that's what they are already doing with cows/pigs.

      That's why I stopped going to McDonalds a while back and started eating healthier and more vegetables.

      Also Chipotle is a much more trusted organization when it comes to raising cattle/livestock right.
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  • Yea, when humans are no longer existent on the planet, there's going to be some chaotic things going on because of everything we've caused.

    I just hate that they are only worrying about what's going on right now and not the future.
  • Note: This article was Published: September 3, 2010

    Thom of course your right.
    And don't take offense at this Justin,just using your generation as an example, but just as kids Justin age don't know and never have known a world without all the technology, they really haven't know a world without both those diseases and the foods and changes that are causing them,so its just business as usual to them.
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    • It kind of makes me sad to bring children into this world..

      I was around when there were still VCR's and we had black and white tv's when I was a kid.

      My children will likely never get to see many of the things I did growing up and of course, I wasn't able to see many of the things you were.
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  • ...I wouldn't believe the FDA if they told me my name was Dennis. I'd go check my birth certificate. They have no credibility in my mind.

    Article: FDA "Corruption" Letter Authenticated: Lawyers, Start Your Engines! - CBS News

    Article: Culture of corruption has become common within FDA, Big Pharma

    FDA Corruption Video MSU-ISS 310 - YouTube
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  • It's a shame, too, Justin, that kids will never know what it was like to have REAL food. With the attacks on organic farms, raw milk, and refusal to even label GMO's, they will never know the real taste of many foods that they eat.

    I can look back on the hot summer days that my mom would send me out with a salt shaker and a jackknife, and I ate out of the gardens and orchards all day. I remember fruits and veggies so juicy that it would stream down your chin when you bit into them. In the next few years if we don't act fast (and millions are but we need every hand on deck now) real food will be regulated right off the shelves and will be unobtainable to all but the severely wealthy.
  • Sal,
    you're right.
    Some things I remember, watching a chicken get its head cut of and the whole process of plucking it and getting it ready to be cooked and eaten. ( I think people really need an understanding of where real food came from).
    Going out in the fields and picking plums and apples off the trees and going back to the farmhouse and making and canning plum and apple jellies.

    I bet I could ask 100 people about either process and the majority wouldn't have a clue.



    Justin, I don't remember your exact age,but having vcrs around doesn't surprise me, but having a b&w television does.
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    • Hello again Justin,

      I'm not a conspiracy theorist but I've grave suspicions of all things GM.

      And as for changes over the years, I remember: my parent's first TV was B&W, the introduction of calculators into my primary school, the very first computer in my secondary school (a BBC Micro), the first email I sent (on a VAX 11/750 - it took up an entire room. My smartphone has higher specs than that monster), and the first time I saw Windows at university (DOS and UNIX up til that point.)

      My kids think I'm a dinosaur. They can't comprehend a world without these conveniences.

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