Genetically Altered Salmon Get Closer to the Table

[Rmis32]

"The Food and Drug Administration is seriously considering whether to approve the first genetically engineered animal that people would eat — salmon that can grow at twice the normal rate."

read more... http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/26/bus...

[Indirect Heat]

As long as they're grown inland where they can't breed with wild salmon, I look forward to our new genetically-engineered salmon overlords. (Although they're steril-ish, their sterilisation procedure has a failure rate of 1% - 1% of the farmed salmon stock is a lot of salmon...)

[kmcarr]

O.k., who let the Slashdotter in? ;-)

[Veggo]

I have followed this one as part of financial research for some time - it's quite fascinating, actually. Potentially a game changer for supplying protein to almost 7 billion people. Pro/con arguments aside, I look forward to a good old fashioned blind taste test.