Jim Gerritsen CANADIAN CITIZENS SUES FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OVER ILLEGAL APPROVAL OF GE SALMON. Canadians employ the courts to force transparency and the rule of law. The groups assert the approval is unlawful because it failed to assess whether genetically modified salmon could become invasive, potentially putting ecosystems and species such as wild salmon at risk. Both groups are asking the court to set aside the government’s assessment and require the government to comply with the law before permitting the manufacture of these genetically modified organisms...The move to commercial production of GM Atlantic salmon puts this magnificent wild fish at risk of irreversible genetic contamination...This is the world’s first genetically modified food animal to go into production,” Wristen said. “This was done without any public debate at all and under circumstances that look like a deliberate attempt to prevent public comment. Canadians have a right to know about decisions like this in advance of them being made.
Posted on: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 20:42:29 +0000
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