Tag: fish
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#Video: #Frankenfish One Step Closer To Market
from therealfoodchannel.com: During the Christmas 2012 holiday, the FDA quietly moved the genetically modified salmon called “frankenfish” one step closer to market. The Food and Drug Administration released draft documents that assessed the environmental risks posed by AquAdvantage salmon, which grow faster than regular Atlantic salmon. The agency found, on a preliminary basis, that the…
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World’s Biggest Geoengineering Experiment ‘Violates’ UN Rules
A controversial American businessman dumped around 100 tonnes of iron sulphate into the Pacific Ocean as part of a geoengineering scheme off the west coast of Canada in July, a Guardian investigation can reveal.
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McDonald’s Force Olympics To Only Serve Chips With Fish
from dailymail.co.uk: Hundreds of food outlets at Olympic venues have been forced to take chips off the menu, because of a demand from sponsor McDonald’s. Olympic chiefs have banned all 800 food retailers at the 40 Games venues across Britain from dishing up chips because of ‘sponsorship obligations.’ The only loophole in the agreement, announced…
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Glow in the dark sushi made from genetically modified fish becomes the latest food craze to hit America
from dailymail.co.uk: Sushi that glows in the dark has become the latest must try food craze across America. Inspired by genetically modified fish first bred for scientific research, a video showing how to make the glowing sushi has become a huge hit online. The recipes use glofish, a brand of genetically modified (GM) fluorescent zebrafish…
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Cod Fishermen’s Alarm Outlasts Reprieve on Catch Limits
from nytimes.com: Fishermen and federal officials grappled Friday with the increasingly bleak prospect of finding some way for the historic New England cod industry to avoid collapse amid troubles with the health of Gulf of Maine cod. Their meeting came in the week after regional regulators bought fishermen a year’s reprieve from devastating cuts to…
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organic fish farm is alternative to chinese imports
from eatdrinkexplore: In a move to show his support for a crackdown on fish imported from China, U.S. Sen. Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) toured an organic fish farm Wednesday, located in New York’s Hudson River Valley. “It has become abundantly clear that fish and seafood from China can stink, and it’s time the Food and…
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alaska senator @lisamurkowski to push ban on frankenfish
from newsminer: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski plans to offer an amendment that would ban genetically modified fish. Murkowski’s office says the issue of so-called “frankenfish” came up during a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing Wednesday. Murkowski urged the committee to impose a ban on genetically modified fish when the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s budget came…
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Monsanto Preys on Popularity of Omega-3s with Fake Fish Oil
According to a recent report in Forbes, the multinational biotechnology-slash-agriculture-manipulating monolith has developed a new genetically-modified (GM) soybean that artificially produces stearidonic acid, a type of omega-3 fatty acid — and the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is expected to approve the “frankenbean” sometime this year.
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6/23 binge & purge: cruelty, control & the cost-effective clean 15
house rebukes looming fda frankenfish approval* pesticide spraying near streams to expand under house bill; hr872 lets farmers bury ‘clean water act’* utah man accused of eating live rat, posting video online charged with animal cruelty* chicago grocers accused of $500k food stamp fraud* conagra foods’ net income increases, warns high costs could hurt future…
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4/21 Binge & Purge: Tests, Deaths, Laced, Dates
FDA refuses to test fish for radioactivity // Organic growers v. Monsanto: Lawsuit filed to protect against contamination // McDonald’s warns of higher food inflation // Genetic labeling easily doable, despite claims
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4/14 Binge & Purge: Hunger Hormones & the Danger Zone
Study finds hunger hormone helps you sniff out food // Arsenic & toxic metals found in baby foods // Monsanto modifies soybeans to grow ‘fish oil’ // World Bank chief says food prices in ‘danger zone’
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gm salmon set to move closer to your table
from nytimes: The Food and Drug Administration is seriously considering whether to approve the first genetically engineered animal that people would eat — salmon that can grow at twice the normal rate. The developer of the salmon has been trying to get approval for a decade. But the company now seems to have submitted most…