Franken-Fish?! URGENT: Public Comment Required before Nov 22nd

FDA poised to approve sale of genetically engineered salmon in U.S. supermarkets (*without labeling so we won't know the difference) - 

even though scientists warn it could harm human health. 

URGENT: Public comment required before November 22nd (just 1 week)!

Synopsis :

- Demand right to know what is in your food.

- You want genetically engineered food labeled.

- As a consumer you have a right to know.

- Tell Congress to stop approval of genetically engineered animals for food.

- Demand that FDA conduct a thorough Environmental Impact Statement before

deciding whether to approve the first ever genetically engineered animal for food.

INSTRUCTIONS:

go to action alert at Organic Consumers Association (http://www.organicconsumers.org/)

To sign petition, go top of third column, click on: 

"Featured Alert" Stop Frankenfish! No GMO Salmon!

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For entire article: 

GE Salmon! Are You Out of Your Minds? 

by Jeffrey Smith, leading advocate promoting healthier non-GMO choices

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeffrey-smith/ge-salmon-are-you-out-of_b_742413.html

or Center For Food Safety: http://ge-fish.org/

"Major U.S. Environmental groups Call for Full Environmental Review of Genetically Engineered Salmon"

Highlights of Smith article:

- growth hormone gene forcing fish to grow up to 5x faster 

- according to evidence might have higher levels of a cancer promoting hormone (IGF-1), more antibiotics and more potentially life-threatening allergen(s)

- FDA failed to learn lesson with genetically engineered bovine growth hormone which 

also has higher levels of IGF-1 and more antibiotics, now condemned by the Am. Public Health Assoc., banned in most other countries; 

- Am. Academy of Environmental Medicine condemned GMOs and

 urged physicians to prescribe non-GMO diets

- threat of Frankenfish escaping into wild, extinction of wild populations, genetic pollution irreversible

- Canadian scientists tested behavior in tanks, result -  population crashes or complete extinctions, suggests if released or escape into ocean, aggressive salmon would pursue and consume other types of fish

- according to Union of Concerned Scientists, food safety succumbing to higher priority of global corporate profits

     PUBLIC OPINION IS IMPORTANT - PLEASE ACT IN YOUR OWN INTEREST