IS Genetically Engineered Salmon Safe for Human Consumption?

Evaluation According to the population of the United States, the population has increased by 75 million people to 317.9 million in one year. Demand for seafood is also increasing. Americans consume 5 billion pounds of seafood a year. AquaBounty Technologies is working hard to create products that meet the growing demand for producing enough seafood to reduce the number of wild fish. As a solution to this problem, the company made genetically modified Atlantic salmon. Genetically modified AquAdvantage Atlantic salmon grows at twice the speed of regular salmon.

"The US Food and Drug Administration has made flawed irresponsible approval for human consumption of the first genetically modified animals, but it is clear that genetically modified salmon does not exist in the US market" Event Organization "Friends of The Earth "Lisa Archer, Director of Food Technology Programs, said in a statement. "People do not want to eat it, grocery stores refuse to sell it."

In November 2015, the US FDA approved the GM AquAdvantage squid AquaBounty created for commercial production, sales and consumption. It is the first transgenic animal for which human consumption has been approved. This fish is basically a transgenic Atlantic salmon with Oncorhynchus tshawytscha gene inserted. As wild-type fish produce hormones only for a part of a year, this allows the fish to produce GH throughout the year for faster growth. The fish also has a second gene inserted from a squid-like oceanpot just like a hormone "on" switch. Pout also contains antifreeze proteins in its blood, thereby enabling the transgenic salmon to survive and grow in nearly frozen water. Producers of genetically modified squid claim that GM fish takes only 18 months to achieve this goal while wild type squid takes 24 to 30 months to reach market size (4-6 kg). The opponents of genetically modified catfish referred to it as "Frankenfish".

Scientists are currently working on genetic engineering of domestic animals. Atlantic salmon is carefully designed to grow at twice the rate of wild salmon and Fichckens is carefully designed not to convey H5N1 avian influenza to other birds. Fand research is currently ongoing to generate bovine spongiform encephalopathy (also known as mad cow disease) that can not produce infectious prions. At this time, GM animals are not approved to enter the food supply from the FDA. However, F genetic engineering experiments on animals poses a potential risk to food safety and the environment.

Genetic engineering is totally new to our society and has not been fully tested. In fact nobody knows how secure a genetically modified food is to human consumption, so many people feel that eating food is not completely safe. It is impossible to judge whether a food has changed if a person causes an allergic reaction to genetically modified foods. Marking foods not only allows people to choose not to use genetically modified products, it also helps to determine the reliability of food. The U.S. government considers genetically modified foods safe for consumers, but does not do extensive research necessary to prove that theory. In order to fully understand the reliability of GM foods, it is necessary to know that people are taking it in the body. Otherwise, harmful side effects may occur.