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Stop Frankenfish!
Tell President Obama and the FDA Not to Approve Genetically Engineered Salmon!
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Ask Your Assembly Member to Sponsor AB 88, a Bill for Mandatory Labels on GMO Salmon
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Download OCA's GMO Salmon Flyer
Please download OCA's "50% Off GMO Salmon" flyer. Pass it out to your friends, at the fish market, the grocery store or a seafood restaurant.
Catch people's reactions when they learn that genetically engineered animals could soon be approved by the FDA and encourage them to learn more and take action.
Download the Flyer here. (PDF format)
- If printed back to back, the flyer can be cut into four separate 'coupons'
GMO Salmon Flyer Text
If you had a coupon for 50% off your first taste of genetically modified salmon, would you try it?
What if you knew that the FDA had studies -- from AquaBounty, the company that wants to commercialize GMO salmon -- that showed that GMO salmon is:
MORE ALLERGENIC: GMO salmon have mean allergenic potencies that are 20% and 52% higher than normal salmon.
MORE CARCINOGENIC: GMO salmon has 40% more IGF1, a hormone linked to prostate, breast and colon cancers in humans.
LESS NUTRITIOUS: GMO salmon has the lowest omega-3 to omega-6 ratio of any salmon.
LIKELY TO CHANGE THE BACTERIA OF YOUR GUT: Horizontal gene transfer, where the bacteria of the human gut takes up modified DNA from GMO foods during digestion, has been shown occur with soy and is likely to happen with GMO salmon, too.
ALL MESSED UP: GMO salmon has increased frequency of skeletal malformations like "humpback" spinal compression, increased prevalence of jaw erosions or "screamer disease," and multisystemic, focal inflammation in its tissues.
NOT GOING TO SAVE WILD SALMON: The main justification for GMO salmon is that it could reduce the pressure on wild fish stocks, but consumption isn't the primary pressure on wild Alaskan salmon, destruction of their habitat is.
"Organic" Farmed Salmon Basics
Because of the lack of US standards for organic salmon, farmed "organic" salmon is farmed in an open net cage system, the same system used for conventional farmed salmon.
In turn, what we're relatively certain of is that the organic farmed salmon for sale today:
- Ate wild fish for feed (though the make up of the diet can vary considerably)
- The farm provided no complete barrier between farmed fish and the marine environment
- The farm did not contain wastes - uneaten feed, feces and possibly harmful chemicals
- The farm did not prevent the transmission of diseases and parasites to/from wild fish
Also, depending on where your fish came from, it is also possible that it was:
- Treated with toxic chemicals (some like Cypermethrin and Emamectin benzoate classified as "marine pollutants") used to kill parasites called sea lice
- Treated with antibiotics at some stage of its life cycle
- Fed wild fish products that did not come from certified sustainable sources
- Fed feed that was not tested for or cleaned of PCBs, dioxins and other contaminants
- From a farm site that experienced escapes of farmed fish into the environment
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Fish & Sustainability Headlines
- 01/23/12 - Bill to Label GE Fish Fails in California Legislature
- 12/20/11 - Alert: Stop Frankenfish!
- 10/19/11 - Obama Administration 'Bailed Out' GM Salmon Firm
- 10/19/11 - Is the Company Behind GMO Salmon the Next Solyndra?
- 10/09/11 - Exposed: Federal Funding for GMO Salmon?
- 09/29/11 - Feds Help GMO Salmon Swim Upstream
- 09/26/11 - Nanoparticles Cause Brain Injury in Fish
- 09/15/11 - Murkowski to Push Ban on Frankenfish
- 08/01/11 - The Sustainable Seafood Myth
- 07/09/11 - Fish Ingesting Plastic Waste, Study Finds
- 06/06/11 - Genetically Engineered Salmon's Fishy Promises
- 05/23/11 - Genetically Modified Salmon: Everything You Need to Know
- 05/05/11 - California Assembly Health Committee Passes Bill to Require Labels on Genetically Engineered Salmon
- 05/02/11 - The Flip Side of Tilapia, the Perfect Factory Fish
- 04/23/11 - Europe Scorns Supersalmon as GM Battle Widens
- 03/31/11 - Ask Vermont State Legislators to Label GE Salmon!
- 03/31/11 - Tell Alaska State Legislators to Label Farmed and Genetically Modified Fish!
- 03/10/11 - How to Save the World's Oysters - and Eat Them, Too
- 02/17/11 - If Obama's FDA Approves Engineered Salmon, Congress Must Act!
- 02/03/11 - Experts Debate Limits in the Growth of Fish Farming
- 02/02/11 - Environmentalists Skeptical of Salmon Farming
- 01/18/11 - Group Secretly Tests Mercury in Tuna, Swordfish
- 01/09/11 - Pesticide Use, Lobster Deaths Probed in Down East Waters
- 12/10/10 - Five Fish You Should Eat More Of
- 11/23/10 - Fish Farms Begin Use of New Pesticide
- 11/15/10 - What the FDA Doesn't Want You to Know About GE Salmon
- 11/15/10 - Major U.S. Environmental Groups Call for Full Environmental Review of Genetically Engineered Salmon
- 11/11/10 - Study Shows Sea Lice Problem Widespread
- 11/10/10 - Farmed Salmon Exposed: The Global Reach of the Norwegian Salmon Farming Industry
- 11/03/10 - Anti-Frankenfish Candidates Win 2010 Races
- 10/28/10 - Newly Disclosed Government Documents Conclude GE Salmon Pose A Critical Threat To Marine Environments
- 10/07/10 - A Recap of the FDA's 'Frankenfish' Hearings
- 09/30/10 - Why Who Fishes Matters
- 09/21/10 - Scientists Question Thoroughness of Gulf Seafood Testing
- 09/20/10 - Why is the FDA About to Rubber-Stamp GE Salmon?
- 09/20/10 - OCA Testimony to the FDA Concerning Genetically Modified Salmon
- 09/20/10 - Transgenic Fish Swimming Towards a Plate Near You
- 09/14/10 - Whole Foods 'Does the Right Thing' in its New Policy for Wild Caught Seafood
- 09/08/10 - Who Dares Question the Industrial Food System Over GM Salmon?
- 08/30/10 - 12 Most Toxic Fish (For Humans and the Planet)
- 07/16/10 - Radio of the Week: Ronnie Cummins on Genetically Engineered Salmon
- 07/03/10 - Oil Entering Gulfs Food Chain
- 06/28/10 - Giant Salmon Will Be First GM Animal Available for Eating
- 06/26/10 - Genetically Altered Salmon Set to Move Closer to Your Table
- 04/26/10 - Which Fish to Eat? Study Finds Lower Mercury in Most Top-Selling Seafood
- 03/25/10 - The Greed of Feed: Ecological Impacts of Salmon Farming
- 03/22/10 - Gardeners Grow Dinner with Aquaponics
- 03/16/10 - The Water Wars: California's Salmon vs. Agribiz Interests
- 03/04/10 - Dirty Secrets of Farmed Salmon
- 03/04/10 - 100 Percent of Fish in U.S. Streams Found Contaminated with Mercury
- 02/25/10 - Recirculating Aquaculture Systems: The Future of Fish Farming?
- 01/27/10 - Target to Stop Selling Farmed Salmon
- 01/23/10 - Good Fish, Bad Fish
- 01/15/10 - Environmental Group Gives First-Time Nod to Sustainable Salmon-Farming Method
- 01/06/10 - A Fish Oil Story
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