What If Frankenfish Won't Stay In Their Cages? | Environment | Change.org

What If Frankenfish Won't Stay In Their Cages? | Environment | Change.org: "A monster wouldn't be a monster if it just stayed in its cage.

That's why environmentalists are joining food safety and public health advocates in speaking out about Frankenfish—the nickname for AquaBounty's 'AquAdvantage salmon,' which is poised to become the world's first genetically engineering animal approved for human consumption. The FDA is now considering the application and recently took a major step by deeming the product safe for human consumption, based on a scarily insufficient testing.

In the same vein, a coalition of 12 environmental groups are now panning the FDA's plans for a superficial assessment of the environmental risks of the supersized fish, which will grow to double the size of wild salmon to please our hefty appetites. The agency has announced its intention to rely largely on an assessment report prepared by...wait for it...AquaBounty itself. Now there's objective science. In reality, the minimal assessment sidesteps the weighty issues FDA must address, and a full environmental impact report is needed, which is exactly what the 12 groups told FDA in a letter this week (pdf)."