Genetically Engineered Salmons - Are They Safe for the World?

Genetically altered salmon, also known as the frankenfish has become a centre of talk in recent days. The Aqua Bounty Technologies has provided their research output which grows much faster than the normal species of salmons. The altered species has much of abnormal characteristics than a normal fish in the same group.

Some of the abnormal behaviour detected by the FDA includes increased prevalence of jaw erosions, increased skeletal malformations and multi-systemic inflammation. However, FDA has considered these irregular characteristics as acceptable saying that these characteristics come within the observed range of accepted Atlantic salmons.

The abnormal behaviour was compared with the farmed salmon species which are also genetically modified but with the help of other resources. Here question arises about the comparison, how can a fish that grows in a natural environment be compared with the factory farmed species? FDA tried to justify the comparison stating the control substance that is Aspartame as the reason.

The modified species has lots of chances of diseases as observed in previous altered species of other animals. One of the prevalent examples of such problem is the chickens which are made to grow fast and lay more eggs; suffer from the skeletal disorders every year. Some of the turkeys are so much pushed to the biological limits that they can't even mate naturally and produce because of their heavy weights. How much of these biotechnology can push the biological limits to the max stressing the poor animals, that is still to be seen more.

One of the major concern about the genetically altered salmon is if they escapes in the wild won't they finish their own natural species which basically grow smaller than them. However, the company creating the altered species manages to justify itself by saying, the metabolic demands of such species make them less likely to escape into the wild and survive.

Final concern here is the transgenic DNA transferring to human being from the consumption of such fish in the long run. We still have to see the outcome of genetically altered salmon introduction to the everyday life. Let's hope everything goes fine as the FDA says, if the genetically altered salmons are brought in the market.

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