Texas company battles to sell genetically altered GloFish

[shanev]

Scotts-
Mules- I guess the difference here is they are breed to serve a purpose, not for a aesthetic difference.
On Betta fish to be honest I didn't know they were grey in the wild, but this too seems a little different to me. Encouraging something that has evolved naturally is different than putting 2 species together that would have never been together in the wild.
This is very thought provoking, like I said I am not entirely sure why Im against it, it just seems like too much power for people.

 

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FDA Will Not Regulate GloFish
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (news - web sites), besieged by questions about a new kind of genetically engineered pet fish, said on Tuesday it saw no need to regulate the red fluorescent creatures.
A Texas-based company has started distributing the glowing zebra fish under the trademark name GloFish, but some media reports question their safety. They carry a gene from a sea coral that makes them shine red, especially under ultraviolet light.
"Because tropical aquarium fish are not used for food purposes, they pose no threat to the food supply," the FDA said in a terse statement.
"There is no evidence that these genetically engineered zebra danio fish pose any more threat to the environment than their unmodified counterparts which have long been widely sold in the United States. In the absence of a clear risk to the public health, the FDA finds no reason to regulate these particular fish."
Developer Alan Blake and colleagues at Yorktown Technologies, L.P. say there is no evidence the fish will pose any threat to the environment. Normal zebra fish are commonly used in aquariums and cannot survive in non-tropical waters.