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Lawsuit Filed Against Unregulated GloFish
purduephotog writes "You may remember the infamous poll on glowing pets posted in response to the marketing of GloFish. The Center for Food Safety has filed a lawsuit asking to halt all sales of said fish until the government can properly regulate it. More information at ABCNews.com."
Along comes some domesticated fish alternative that could really take the pressure off of endangered species, and we're knocking it down because the public is ignorant about how evolution works and the over exaggerated risks of Gene Manipulation. I suspect a large undercurrent here is not the danger, but the Christian backlash at altering God's creatures. How unnatural.
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Please, point us to a single study that says they aren't safe. A real study, not just someone being irrationally paranoid about the mystical evils of genetic engineering.
I imagine any study I point to will be immediately dismissed by you as being "irrationally paranoid" so you'll have to excuse me for not wasting my time doing a Google search.
Just because something can be done doesn't mean it should be done, especially when the only gain is to make someone enough money to buy their second Hummer, "cool invention" or not.
It's simple: I demand prosecution for torture.
Rich people have done more for this world than whiners like you ever will.
I could not agree with you more. I could never get people to blindly worship me the way you worship the rich.
It's simple: I demand prosecution for torture.
I gave a sound reason. You didn't like it and accused me of hating rich people. You want me to solve your problems for you by following your commands to do things your way. You go ahead and believe what you want.
It's simple: I demand prosecution for torture.
Transgenic mutations (transplanting a gene from one species' genome into another's) are less stable in the new genome than the other genes. They are more likely to mutate in the new genome, and even to transgerminate again, infecting a new species' genome, for example after a transgenic organism is eaten. So these GloFish are a risk for 1> cruelly increasing cancer rates in their own species, 2> spreading the glowgene into other aquatic species in their shared water environment, and 3> spreading the glowgene through the foodchain, eventually including humans and other animals (especially considering the tremendous amount of fishmeal fed to farmed animals and plants). Each infected species runs an increased risk of not only glowing in the dark, but also getting various cancers.
The FDA has a responsibility to regulate the content of farm feedstocks to reduce these risks. But they don't even enforce the existing laws protecting US cattle from mad cow disease, as we've seen this Winter with our first cases here. Let alone enact new laws as the epidemiological landscape changes. The Department of Agriculture has the overall responsibility to protect our foodchain, but they're even more politicized than their FDA division. What else do you expect from the rest of the ranchers, who own the cowboy image that Bush Junior has adopted as his identity? The whole gang prefers short-term "stay rich quick" schemes to any longterm business prudence. So GM crises will begin to sprout, and occasionally the government will attempt to close the barn door after the mutants have already escaped. Or we can support these consumer groups, whose preemptive legislation through litigation is doing more to protect us than our political representatives.
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