An article
by Scott Wallace caught my eye in the National Observer. Scott bemoans
the fact that seafood labeling in Canada is a joke. I concur, but it is
much worse than Scott notes in his article. Wallace tells us that not
only are seafood producers allowed to mislead customers by labeling
countries where “Product of” means the place of last transformation
(e.g. filleting, packaging)-but not where the seafood was caught or
farmed. As Scott advised “ …if you bought sockeye salmon in Canada
recently, it’s more likely from Russian waters-even if labeled “Product
of Canada”. But because we don’t have a real informative labeling system
for seafood in Canada, your sockeye salmon many not even be salmon at
all, much less the prized “Sockeye”. It may very well be an artificial
salmon called “Genetically Modified Salmon”.
Yes,
it is perfectly legal to sell Genetically Modified salmon is Canada
without telling the consumers of this gross infringement on nature, this
thing that is not a real salmon, not even a real fish that has known
qualities of evolution, but a monster that grows three times as large
three times as fast as a real salmon does, and is infertile (supposedly)
. This man made monster is composed of regular Pacific salmon that has
had its genes spliced with those of Atlantic salmon, eels, pouts and
growth hormones. And yes, this oversized monster masquerading as a real
fish is being sold as we speak in the Canadian market, unlabeled and untested
for human consumption over any significant period of time. Nobody,
absolutely nobody, knows what eating this monstrous conglomeration in
any significant amounts over any significant period of time will do to
children, pregnant women, or elderly, or the broad range of human
consumers. How can this be?
Alex Gillis in the McLeans article
(June 2018) headlined that Canadians ate 4.5 tonnes of unlabelled GM
salmon without knowing it this past year. Fancy that. We ate all that
monster flesh without having the faintest idea what we were eating. And
Canada is the only nation in the whole world who is putting GM salmon on
the market. And that 4.5 tons of GM monster flesh was for 2018. What
will this year be like? We are serving as Guinea pigs for the US Company
named AquaBounty. They want to know how the dear, docile Canadians will
react to eating these tons of monster flesh, which of course AquaBounty
can’t label as most Canadians, no matter how nice and polite, might
recoil in horror. And our Canadian watch dogs, the ones that are
supposed to protect us from such dangerous company activities? Oh, dear.
Gillis tells us that the Canadian government gets a ten percent cut on
the sales. The more monster flesh sold to unwitting Canadians the better
our government likes it. More on this.
