I love salmon! Haven't heard much about GMO in concern with that. I've heard pros and cons about fish farming - but then, if done right that would alleviate the raping of our oceans, right? I think all criticisms of fish-farming can be addressed and any techniques found wanting can be improved. I've always wanted to "farm" my own fish here on the property and have a few red-claw crayfish as a starter, with hopes for tilapia and perhaps catfish later on. We'll see where that goes...
Oops - The Iraq thing is not constitution, but legislation:
http://www.google.com/search?q=Plant...ient=firefox-a
I hope their dates are preserved too. Hah! Get it? Preserved? Okay, so I'm not a comedian...
LOL, bananas? Oh, yeah, almost forgot. Well, they're settled into their greenhouse and growing happily in spite of freezing/near-freezing temperatures. Very happy. I need to pot some up here pretty soon. They have slowed down already tho - shorter photoperiod perhaps? It gets pretty warm in there during the day, and the earthmass helps at night. I certainly hope our market doesn't get polluted by an infiltration of GMO nanners!
Be well,
Mike
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Originally Posted by mrbungalow
So they are dying like flies 
Thanks for the enlightment, Mike. You seem to have studied this.
As you probably guessed, I know little about GMO. I am by no means supporting GMO, but it's great to get the facts on the table - from both points of view. Boring discussions with everyone beeing politically correct.
I am from the seafood/aquaculture-business. What's scary to know, is that maybe 1 out of 10 consumers believe salmon is a GMO. Contrary, it's one of the cleanest foods in the world. Now there's something you can't challenge me on, Mike!
The idea of triploid fish has been brought up here before. Could save the business millions each year, as well as the destruction of wild-salmon. Still, not even the slightest genetic modifications are allowed in this country.
Supermarkets are these days asking consumers to return rice bought between june and august this year, cause it may contain GMO.
In any case, it seems to me GMO is more political than anything else, if it's like you say, Lobbyism at its' worst.
And what was that happening in the new constitution of Iraq? Better not threaten those delicious Iraqi-dates!
Almost forgot wich board I am on, How are your bananas, by the way?  |