GM pigs produce new wonder 'green' droppings
By Mary Dejevsky in Washington
2 May 2000
If consumers were dismayed by the news that hundreds of
giant, genetically modified salmon are under production in
Canada, they will be even more alarmed by the arrival of
"enviro-pig", a beast genetically modified to produce low-
phosphorus faeces that are deemed less harmful to the
environment.
A special report in The New York Times yesterday claimed
that the pig is one of a whole menagerie of animals - cows,
goats and sheep - being modified in America.
Most are being altered to produce milk with specific
medicinal properties, for instance sheep's milk used to
treat cystic fibrosis.
The fish could be on US dinner plates as early as next
year and could be followed by the other animals shortly,
thanks to scant intervention from the official US food
safety watchdog, the Food and Drug Administration, The New
York Times claimed.
As with GM vegetables, the FDA's remit extends only to
food safety, and so long as the mega-fish are not found to
damage human health, they will be certified safe. Federal
regulation, the paper says, is running well behind advances
in the bio-technology sector, and the ease with which GM
fish, pigs etc can reach consumers only exposes the many
loopholes. In what one scientific critic described as
"ludicrous", the FDA has decided to treat GM salmon as a
drug and not a food for regulatory purposes.
It currently has no authority to approve new foods before
they go on the market - an omission which suits the
producers, many of which are big and politically
influential conglomerates. Nor can the growth hormone be
regulated as an "additive" because it is not deemed to
change the nature or quality of the fish.
A further obstacle to the regulation of GM produce in the
US is that ecological concerns are handled by the
Environmental Protection Agency, quite separately from food
safety, and it is environmental concerns that could be
uppermost with GM fish.
The newspaper cited one recent study as showing that
certain types of wild fish could become extinct if they
mated with GM fish: second generation GM fish, it was
found, are shorter-lived and may be more prone to disease
than conventionally bred fish.
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