I had a conversation not so long ago with a local natural foods store owner.   He suggested that in 20-30 years all the fish we eat will be farm raised.  That sounds fairly terrible, but for now (as far I know) it’s a prediction – hopefully an unlikely one and I can go on eating smoked steelhead that was freshly caught.  Today a friend made me aware of a far worse reality: genetically modified salmon.

I articulated a while back why I think that the kind of progress that has brought about GMOs is a bad idea in this post.  Simply put and slightly borrowed from my hero Wendel Berry, I do not believe that what we call the American Way of Life will prove somehow indestructible.  Human kind must have limits.

I’m not going to spend a lot of time on this when Democracy Now puts it so much better.  Please read what they have to say and consider signing their petition.  When I signed I wrote something like this: “GMO salmon is not the solution.  I would much rather paying more for it and eat less of it.”

Check out the petition at Democracy Now.

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