Genetically modified salmon eggs are safe as houses, according to Environment Canada. The pronouncement comes as AquaBounty Technologies' fast-growing transgenic salmon try to swim from their P.E.I. hatchery to your dinner table. While the aquaculture industrialists wait for the goahead from Health Canada, detractors wring their hands over a Godzilla-like scenario ending with the obliteration of all wild salmon. Given the decline of fish stocks, can we afford to be squeamish over a little genetic enhancement? Weigh in at nsnews.com.
