12-22-2012, 10:03 PM | #1 | |
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12-22-2012, 10:39 PM | #2 |
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Is that Doppleganger posting pictures of dead animals again?
When I go to upscale seafood restaurants I want to order a freshly caught Atlantic Salmon, not an ``AquAdvantage''. I do like the idea of inland tanks, though, since it means landlocked regions will be able to have fresh seafood without the exorbitant costs.
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12-22-2012, 10:59 PM | #3 |
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Zing.
Are you against GMOs?
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12-22-2012, 11:03 PM | #4 |
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I love fish but.. seafood is so fucking dirty. The skin of fish is supposed to be the most delicious part. But instead it always tastes like shit. Do you know why? Because their skin absorbs most of the shit in the ocean/water like a filter. And so it tastes awful.
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12-22-2012, 11:08 PM | #5 |
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......... I've been spending far too much time on /pol/. In all seriousness, I'm quite interested in this. Though I'm not a giant fan of fish, salmon is the one I enjoy the most and I'd be interested to see how the AquAdvantage fish stacks up to its naturally born cousins. And the inland tanks sound pretty kickass. |
12-22-2012, 11:31 PM | #6 |
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I'm not against it at all... I just want to feel smug eating the Real Thing while the peasants enjoy their cheap, mass-produced version with a cheesy brand name. It's like the KFC of seafood!
Of course, being a lowly peasant myself, that will probably never happen. =3= On the plus side, if they plan to start selling it in Maynard, I could go over there to give it a try and report back.
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12-22-2012, 11:41 PM | #7 |
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Didn't even realize this was news -- because I could've sworn GM salmon had been on the market for over 15 years by this point.
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12-22-2012, 11:52 PM | #8 |
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Something I've always hoped would happen is someone release GloFish into the estuaries or rivers in Northern California so the waters light up at night. But, I think Fish & Game is terrified of such an occurrence, which is why California's banned GloFish.
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12-23-2012, 01:30 AM | #9 |
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So the next time we clone Dolly the sheep, she will be more diesel before we send her off to the butcher shop?
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12-23-2012, 07:03 AM | #10 | |
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Ugh why must things progress so slowly. I get that they want to make sure it's safe to eat and that's fine, but "more than a decade in regulatory limbo" isn't being cautious it's just massive feet dragging.
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12-23-2012, 03:37 PM | #11 |
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Well, as you all probably know, I have quite the environmentalist streak and a huge respect for nature. So just let me say that this is about fucking time. This should have been done years ago. This is science moving forward to make life better. This is the kind of thing that will help feed the world, one mouth at a time. This is the future.
Now, I don't like fish, for the most part (salmon is nice, and I am a fan of sushi, but not much beyond that), but if we can do this with fish, make it standard, then there's no limit to what we can do. GMOs are already extremely common in fruit and vegetables, and farmers have been doing a low-tech version of this for many centuries, called selective breeding. Dangers need to be addressed, of course, but we can't just go crazy anytime anyone says "genetically-modified". So, yeah, my sentiments lie with most of y'all's. |
12-23-2012, 06:15 PM | #12 |
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That's not a very environmentalist view. From what I understand, people are worried that by altering the salmon it could have unknown effects on the environment. Growing faster could mean a higher need to consume more food and ultimate destroy populations of whatever salmon eat, possibly crippling other species and such.
If they're all tank bred and raised and controlled, this isn't an issue, but if they broke out, it could be an issue. It's bad enough when a natural species is introduced to a different area and completely dominate the environment. Adding a genetically modified superfish could be problematic as well. Also, I'm sure people are thinking we're playing God when we start creating our own species. |
12-23-2012, 09:17 PM | #13 |
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Yeah, respecting nature is pretty much the opposite of this.
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12-23-2012, 10:49 PM | #14 |
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I am some of an environmentalist, just not one of the crazy ones. I think that as long as the consequences are addressed, there's no reason to not look into it as a possibility.
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