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California Bans Genegineered Fish

Posted by michael on from the blinky dept.

Cheeko writes "California regulators have announced that they are blocking the sale of genetically engineered fish. The arguments of the regulators seem to echo some of those discussed earlier here."

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  1. simpsons? by pi+eater · · Score: -1, Redundant

    You mean like that three eyed fish we see on the simpsons every week?

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  2. Re:Blocking breeding is key. by Isldeur · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Going beyond the knee-jerk reactions against anything genetically engineered, the key to making these safe is to make sure they can't breed. There was a controversy over engineered trees that make better paper. The researcher noted that making them sterile greatly reduced whatever risk there might be for problems later on.

    Man - this sounds so "Jurassic Park"!! :)

  3. No more possibility of a 3 eyed fish? by BenjiTheGreat98 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    And I was so looking forward to eating one some day....

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  4. Re:Blocking breeding is key. by blackmonday · · Score: 0, Redundant

    You, my friend, obviously don't remember your Jurassic Park.

  5. Re:Blocking breeding is key. by snyps · · Score: -1, Redundant

    I have studied some biology and biotechnology and as far as i can tell these fish present no danger what so ever assuming that they are safe for human consumption... the types of modifications that they are making are things like a faster growth rate, artificially producing vitamins and chemicals that are nessecary for human survival. and last but not least, making them box shaped. i am actually not kidding about that, the idea is that since cylindrical things such as fish do not stack as efficiently as box shaped ones reducing the packaging fee by about 20%. The only problem among these is the growth hormone. The argument is that if it breeds with non captive fish it will take over the river. nature has an uncanny ability to ballence itself out, something like that would either not have enough food to survive and the origional species would take over or it would take over and making things more efficient(eg: less fish do the job of more). If these modifications were benificial to the fish's survival then they would probably have them by now. fish have been around for longer than most creatures on this planet, so one would be lead to believe that they would be resiliant to soemthing like this. THESE FISH WILL HAVE NO MORE IMPACT ON THE ENVIRONMENT THAN A PEASHOOTER WOULD ON AN ATV