[extropy-chat] Fight in California over gene-altered GloFish pets

Giu1i0 Pri5c0 gpmap at runbox.com
Wed Dec 3 05:54:20 UTC 2003


>From CNN: The nation's first genetically altered household pet - a fish that
glows in the dark - is set to begin appearing in stores next month
everywhere except perhaps California, the only state with a ban on
lab-engineered species. On Wednesday, the California Fish and Game
Commission is scheduled to take up an application from Yorktown Technologies
of Austin, Texas, to market the GloFish in California.
State wildlife officials have concluded that the Florida-grown fluorescent
zebra fish poses no danger, and they have recommended that the state exempt
it from the ban. But environmental and public interest groups, along with
commercial fishermen, oppose an exemption.
"What California says is going to make very little difference in the long
run if all the other states are going to allow them," said Peter Jenkins, an
attorney and policy analyst with the Center for Food Safety. Similarly, I
think restrictive laws in the US are going to make very little difference in
the long run if most other countries are going to allow lab-engineered
species.
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