Monster Salmon

You can find it on buffets, pasta, bread, steamed in dill sauce or on the grill. Salmon has become a mass delicacy which is produced on a large scale in fish farms.The company AquaBounty Technologies wants to multiply the salmon supplies with a genetically modified salmon which grows twice as quickly and 6 times as big as conventional wild salmon.When breeding the transgenic salmon it is inevitable that some escape into free nature, which would have fatal consequences for the population of wild fishes.While "normal" Atlantic salmon require around 3 years to be ready for slaughter, the transgenic animals are not only larger but also sexually mature earlier, allowing them to "outdo" their fellow natural species. If only 60 genetically modified salmon reached the wild, this could trigger a natural population of 60,000 salmon in less than 40 fish generations.Neither AquaBounty Technologies nor the American Health Authorities FDA have commissioned independent scientists to research the consequences on the health of people, the environment and the animal population.GM salmon are about to be approved.They would be the first genetically modified fish to be commercially used and released as food. Carp and tilapia are believed to be next. The consumers are not asked but we and nature are exposed to a great trial. The possible consequences which genetic technology has on humans, animals and plants are irreversible! This film explains this.