I’m not a big fish eater, but something just gives me the willies with this whole genetically modified salmon thing.
For those who haven’t heard…mad scientists (the kind with gray spiky hair and evil laughs, I imagine) have “engineered” a salmon to grow twice as fast as a standard salmon — meaning twice as fast to your dinner plate, I suppose.
There’s a lot of press about this lately — most likely because of how freaking scary it sounds to modify the genes of another species…just to make its consumption more cost effective. Frankenstein comes to mind.
Also of note: Should the FDA approve this, the salmon will be the first genetically altered animal available for human consumption. (Some fruits and veggies have already been approved, as is my understanding.)
But where does this end? Genetically modifying everything will become the norm . It’s a slippery slope for sure.
Years from now, when all we’re eating is modified food of one kind or another, science will discover that…Ooops!…they made a whopper of a mistake. And that all this modified food is actually horrible for us in some capacity.
I think I’ll be sticking with the real stuff — at least for now.
What do you think about mutant food? And what’s so wrong with regular salmon that we have to grow them twice as fast anyway?
- Mike
Tags: diet, life wellness, nutrition, salmon, vital wellness
