Ready to eat: the first GM fish for the dinner table
A GM salmon which grows twice as fast as ordinary fish could become the first genetically-modified animal in the world to be declared officially safe to eat, after America’s powerful food-safety watchdog ruled it posed no major health or environmental risks.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said it could not find any valid scientific reasons to ban the production of GM Atlantic salmon engineered with extra genes from two other fish species – a decision that could soon lead to its commercial production.
The verdict clears one of the last remaining hurdles for GM salmon to be lawfully sold and eaten in the US and will put pressure on salmon producers in Britain and Europe to follow suit.
Successive chief scientists to the UK Government, as well as science institutions such as the Royal Society, have endorsed the concept of GM technology as a tool for increasing food production in the 21st Century, but consumer opposition has so far blocked the approval of GM food for the dinner table.
Several government bodies including the advisory committees on the release of GM organisms and on novel foods and processes would have to review the technology before it was approved in the UK.
Supporters of the technology believe the GM salmon will make it not only easier and cheaper to produce farmed salmon, but that it could also be better for the environment because they can be grown on land-based fish farms.
// read more.. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/ready-to-eat-the-first-gm-fish-for-the-dinner-table-8430639.html
The Federal Reserve, the controller of our money supply, is illegally owned by private stock holders. They fabricate money out of thin air creating debt & inflation in the process. This is debt we pay back through our income tax while inflation increases and the cost of living goes up and minimum wage does not. The same people own our media, our fuel, medicine and food suppliers, and the army.
(Companies Using Wood Pulp in Their Food Products?)
The food industry uses wood pulp, also known as powdered cellulose, in everything from crackers and ice creams to puddings and baked goods and gums to thicken or stabilize foods, replace fat, enhance fiber content, and to extend the shelf life of processed foods.
Powdered cellulose is made by cooking wood in various chemicals to separate the cellulose, and then purify it. Modified versions are exposed to acid to further break down the fiber.
Wood pulp is used to coat cheese to prevent it from clumping by blocking out moisture. And wood pulp is also used to make low-fat ice cream taste creamy. Kraft Foods Inc. uses cellulose made from wood pulp and cotton in shredded cheese and salad dressing.
According to a source close to the processed food industry who spoke with TheStreet on the condition of anonymity, food producers save as much as 30% in ingredient costs by opting for cellulose as a filler or binder in processed foods.
The food industry uses wood pulp, also known as powdered cellulose, in everything from crackers and ice creams to puddings and baked goods and gums to thicken or stabilize foods, replace fat, enhance fiber content, and to extend the shelf life of processed foods.
Powdered cellulose is made by cooking wood in various chemicals to separate the cellulose, and then purify it. Modified versions are exposed to acid to further break down the fiber.
Wood pulp is used to coat cheese to prevent it from clumping by blocking out moisture. And wood pulp is also used to make low-fat ice cream taste creamy. Kraft Foods Inc. uses cellulose made from wood pulp and cotton in shredded cheese and salad dressing.
According to a source close to the processed food industry who spoke with TheStreet on the condition of anonymity, food producers save as much as 30% in ingredient costs by opting for cellulose as a filler or binder in processed foods.
Dan Inman, director of research and development at J. Rettenmaier USA, said that in his 30 years in the food science business, he’s seen “an amazing leap in terms of the applications of cellulose fiber and what you can do with it.”
Inman’s company supplies “organic” cellulose fibers for use in a variety of processed foods and meats meant for human and pet consumption, as well as for plastics, cleaning detergents, welding electrodes, pet litter, automotive brake pads, glue and reinforcing compounds, construction materials, roof coating, asphalt and even emulsion paints, among many other products.
-http://blog.friendseat.com/companies-using-wood-pulp-powdered-cellulose
You know who else fed wood pulp and saw dust to people? The Nazis to those imprisoned in the concentration camps.
Moneybags by Mike Luckovich
