So now we get to eat Genetically-Modified Salmon...."WTF"

[agentaqua]

Canadians Are First to Sample Genetically Modified Salmon
By Nathaniel Scharping | August 10, 2017
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2017/08/10/genetically-modified-salmon/

 

[agentaqua]

Thank you for your post, Shuswap. It was well-written and fair. I agree with many of your points.

However, as much as you make valid points about this particular news article - it describes a situation that is but a symptom of deep dysfunction at the top end of CFIA, DFO and the government in general...

'Rude and disrespectful': Federal food inspection agency executive abused, harassed staff
Watchdog says behaviour amounted to 'gross mismanagement,' but official claims probe was unfair
By Kathleen Harris, CBC News Posted: Sep 25, 2017 1:16 PM ET
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/public-service-integrity-commissioner-report-cfia-1.4305340

 

[agentaqua]

How Canadians Bankrolled the World's First Genetically Engineered Food Animal
Taxpayers have invested $8.2 million in the development of a rapid-growth salmon that first hit shelves last year.
Christopher Pollon
Mar 21 2018
https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/...gineered-food-animal?utm_campaign=sharebutton

 

[wildmanyeah]

Just had to bring this back from the dead we have other newer ones on the same topic.

https://www.sportfishingbc.com/foru...engineered-salmon-to-your-dinner-plate.69211/

 

[agentaqua]

Canadian Government Receiving Royalties from Genetically Modified Salmon Sales
Groups Raise Concerns Over Investor-Regulator Roles
March 22, 2018 – Halifax. The Canadian government is receiving 10% royalties from sales of the world’s first genetically modified (GM or genetically engineered) animal, a GM Atlantic salmon.
https://cban.ca/canadian-government-receiving-royalties-from-genetically-modified-salmon-sales/

 

[agentaqua]

Land-based GM salmon farmer posts net loss of $6.6 million – also planning 10,000 metric tonne site
https://salmonbusiness.com/land-bas...illion-also-planning-10000-metric-tonne-site/

 

[absolon]

Sounds like they fancy themselves a stock market unicorn: no profits earned to date, poor prospects for success and operations are financed by repeated issues of new stock which has dropped from about $24 at IPO to about $2.30 currently and considered overvalued at that price. That's a lot of shareholder money burned up.

 

[agentaqua]

Sounds almost like a venture capital operation, Absolon.

 

[absolon]

Sounds almost like a venture capital operation, Absolon.

Wouldn't be the first promising to grow fish in tanks at commercial scale.

 

[agentaqua]

A fishy return on public investment

Illustration by Michael George HaddadCanadians are the first in the world to eat a genetically engineered (genetically modified or GM) fish, thanks in part to years of funding from the federal governm

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