The US’ food regulator has given a green light to the world’s first genetically-modified salmon, labelling them safe to eat, while not requiring them to be labeled. However, the FDA’s first ever approval of a “GM animal” has been met with fierce criticism.
The newly-approved fish, called the AquAdvantage salmon, has had its DNA engineered to make it grow twice as fast as a usual one. The FDA has ruled that the recombinant DNA (rDNA), which contains a growth hormone gene, meets the definition of a drug.
“The FDA has thoroughly analyzed and evaluated the data and information submitted by AquaBounty Technologies regarding AquAdvantage Salmon and determined that they have met the regulatory requirements for approval, including that food from the fish is safe to eat,” said Bernadette Dunham, D.V.M., Ph.D., the director of the FDA’s Center for Veterinary Medicine.
While regular salmon reach market size in 32-36 months, the innovative AquAdvantage fish only needs between 16 to 18 months.
Retailers themselves can decide whether or not to label the fish as “genetically modified” when they arrive in US stores – the FDA does not require them to do so.
Despite the precautionary measures, environmental groups have criticized the FDA decision.
“There’s no place on our dinner plates for genetically engineered fish,” Dana Perls, food and technology campaigner at Friends of the Earth-US, said in a statement. “We will continue to work to ensure the market, from grocery retailers to restaurants, continues to listen to the majority of consumers that don’t want to eat this poorly studied, unlabeled genetically engineered fish.”
The Center for Food Safety (CFS) even plans to take the FDA to court, saying that the agency has “neglected its responsibility to protect the public.”
“The fallout from this decision will have enormous impact on the environment. Center for Food Safety has no choice but to file suit to stop the introduction of this dangerous contaminant,” said Andrew Kimbrell, executive director of Center for Food Safety.
The CFS slammed the FDA’s approval process, saying it “was inadequate” and “lacked a comprehensive analysis.”
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PROPHECY 47
To Be Forewarned Is To Be Forearmed For Such A Time As This!
April 21, 2001
TO BE FOREWARNED IS TO BE FOREARMED FOR SUCH A TIME AS THIS! Beware when you eat soulless meat; you are eating meat that I did not create. Your bodies were not meant to be so defiled. When you see sickness and diseases that are new and your physicians can’t heal, I will say, “Physician heal yourself,” and if that physician does not stand up and say, “No, this is against the laws of creation” then I shall turn creation against itself. You have been warned!
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TO BE FOREWARNED IS TO BE FOREARMED FOR SUCH A TIME AS THIS! Ask MY Blessings on everything you eat or drink. For nothing is uncontaminated anymore, but it is the blessings said in the NAME of YAHUSHUA that will make what is unclean clean, and make what is a curse into a blessing.
PROPHECY 65
GET READY! GET READY! GET READY! GET PREPARED, FOR THE EVIL DAYS ARE UPON YOU!
November 29, 2002
I gave MY Daughter the dream this day that she was poisoned and every time that you eat food MY Children you do not realize what you have taken in. The hormones that you ingest, the pestilence, so ask ME how to cleanse it and I will show you MY Children for the body is the Temple of the RUACH ha KODESH and it must be cleansed. You will find out that you will even hear from ME more easily. There is a war within your bodies, it is not just spiritual it is physical, for I not only cleanse your spirit, I not only cleanse your blood, I will wash the toxins out of your blood, out of your body, out of your bowels.
For what is coming MY Children, while you’re in this mortal body of flesh and blood you must be prepared, you must be strengthened, you must be healed, for sicknesses has come upon you that you know not. The air is poisoned and you know not. The food is poisoned and you know not. Because you have asked a blessing on the food that you eat and the drink that you drink I am faithful to show you what to do. Sometimes MY Children protection is not by MY supernatural hands but you must also partake of it in the physical realm. So cleanse your bodies MY Children just as you cleanse your spirit and your soul, prepare your bodies MY Children for there is yet a war coming untold.
PROPHECY 84
I, YAHUVEH Say, Beware Of The Illusion!
March 31, 2006
Pray over that food for you’ll not know if it’s cloned or not. Remember, satan wants to counterfeit everything I created. He does it through the name of science. But pray over that food, believe ME, believe that I will protect you. Believe I will put life in a meat that will bless your body and not curse it. For I tell you, cloned meat is a counterfeit sent from Hell, to say, “I can create just as he can create, eat my food its better, I can create a chicken that will not have the bird flu.”