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!