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Tuesday, 3 December 2013

How long before YOU are eating frankenfish?


Frankenfish’ are genetically modified salmon created by company
AquaBounty which grow at twice the rate of wild Atlantic Salmon, and are 
constantly hungry 

Daily Mail 
Dec. 3 2013

As they splash around in their tanks, they look like any other healthy Atlantic salmon. Their eyes are bright, their skin is gloriously silvery and their fully grown bodies exude power.

It’s only when you look closely at their hatching dates that the alarm bells start to ring. A normal Atlantic salmon takes 30 months to grow to maturity . . . this variety took just 16.

The majestic specimens are ‘frankenfish’ — genetically modified salmon created in a secretive research base in the Panama rainforest.

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