Combining the DNA of a Chinook salmon and an Ocean pout, U.S. biotech firm AquaBounty has engineered an Atlantic salmon that grows twice as fast as farmed salmon.
And, according to the Washington Post, the FDA is poised to approve the first of these AquAdvantage® Fish to be fit for human consumption.
In a briefing document released last week, FDA staff concluded that “Food from AquAdvantage Salmon . . . is as safe to eat as food from other Atlantic salmon.”
Public meetings are scheduled for September 19-20 to present information on animal health, food safety, environmental concerns, and data supporting the claim that AquAdvantage Salmon grow faster than conventionally bred Atlantic salmon. (meeting agenda)
On September 21, the FDA will hold a public hearing at which it will present the relevant legal principles for food labeling and describe information made available prior to the hearing about AquAdvantage Salmon.
And although it will be FDA’s responsibility to determine if any special labeling is required in accordance with federal law, the hearing will offer the public an opportunity to comment on the application of the relevant food labeling principles to foods that might be made from the AquAdvantage Salmon.
Note: if you wish to make an oral presentation at this meeting, today is the last day to register.
Let’s Recap
The FDA is poised to approve the sale of genetically modified fish for human consumption
The FDA will also decide if special labeling is required
This leads me to a couple of questions.
If the FDA approves the sale of AquAdvantage fish, and if the FDA decides that special labeling is not required….how will you be able to tell the difference between wild salmon, farmed salmon and genetically modified farmed salmon?
What will you do? ….will you eat genetically modified fish?
Or, in other words… The U.S. government is subsidizing healthy food.
The $20 million program is being tested in Hampden County, Mass. and is designed to encourage healthy eating among low income families.
Specifically, The Healthy Incentives Pilot will enroll 7,500 randomly selected SNAP (aka Food Stamps) households to receive the HIP incentives.
For every dollar that participants spend on fruits and vegetables using their SNAP Electronic Benefit Transfer cards, 30 cents will be added to their benefit balance – thus cutting the cost of fruits and vegetables by almost one-third.
And if this Dutch research is correct, this cost cutting measure will result in the higher consumption of fruits & vegetables.
And to make things even better, this program will operate in tandem with the Food Bank Farm program already being sponsored by the Food bank of Western Mass. (The FB Farm program promotes local food consumption)
Conclusion
This program seems pretty great to me.
It reduces the cost of fruits & vegetables
It increases the consumption of fruits & vegetables
It increases the consumption of local fruits & vegetables
The only drawback seems to be the $20 million.
Maybe the USDA should raise the cash by slashing some of the current USDA junk food subsidies.
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