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Showing posts with label fish. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fish. Show all posts

GM animals on the menu

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January 2022 As we enter 2022, what happened to the GM edible animals that we've been promised over the years? Super-fast growing GM s...

Deliciously pink fish

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January 2019 British scientists seem to be heavily into improving farmed fish these days. They might have preferred to feed us GM fish...

Could GM fish oil wreck the environment?

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November 2018 Concerns about eating salmon stuffed with GM omega-3 oils may be over-blown [1], but the risks to the environment are v...

GM veggie oil for fish

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November 2018 The earliest suggestions that certain 'fatty acids' (the building block of oils) might be, like vitamins, vital t...

Keep hidden gene-edited crops out of the food chain

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September 2018 Biotech scientists in the UK have successfully fooled themselves and their regulators into believing that artificial muta...

The GM fish oil business

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February 2017 Global materials-supply company, Cargill, is entering the GM race. With its existing well-honed expertise in farmer servi...

Feed me the truth

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November 2016 Photo Creative Commons Most people in the UK don't eat food made from GM ingredients, but supermarkets across the UK ...

Oxitec business

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September 2016 Photo: Creative Commons From its August beginnings as a commercial spin-off from Oxford University's Innovation mana...

Genes outside of context

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July 2016 Photo Creative Commons A review article by the Rothamsted Research team developing GM plants with fish oil [1] describes the ...

GM-fed butterflies don't fly

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July 2016 Camelina: Photo Creative Commons The UK government continues to promote GM crops as a rising star of industry. This isn'...

GM salmon approved

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January 2016 In November 2015, after nearly two decades in the regulatory pipeline, the biotech creators of GM fast-growing salmon were...

GM soya harms aquatic life

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June 2015 Photo Creative Commons At the beginning of the year, a GM feeding-study was published which investigated important life-histo...

GM salmon don't swim safely

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July 2014 Wild salmon. Photo Wikimedia Commons In trying to introduce the first GM animal into the food chain, the US Food and Drug F...

Fish oil from a plant

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March 2014 Camilina sativa. Picture from Creative Commons A major English GM research facility, the John Innes Centre (JIC), has appli...

The New Year GM pep talk

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February 2014 No New Year would be complete without a GM pep-talk from our Environment Secretary, Owen Paterson, at the influential annua...

GM salmon approved as 'safe' in US

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January 2013 Photo by Michael Kappel on Flickr No festive season would be complete without some GM 'bad' news being slipped ...

Fish oil without the fish doesn't work

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December 2012 Fish oil capsules. Photo by jcoterhals on Flickr. Scientists in Cambridge have found scientific support for what many ...

Roundup promotes parasites

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March 2012 Photo of crop spraying by tpmartins on Flickr Glyphosate, the active ingredient of 'Roundup', continues to present f...

The GM salmon saga

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February 2012 Photo by She Paused 4 Thought on Flickr Anyone who's been following the GM food issue will be aware of periodic headl...

Bt in the water

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April 2011 Aquatic wildlife In 2007, a US study looked at the potential for Bt corn by-products to poison waterways. It found that GM p...