Gordon Clay here. The Food and Drug Administration is poised to approve genetically engineered  salmon as the first "transgenic" animal allowed into the U.S. food supply. AquaBounty Technologies,Inc. says its GE salmon, which is designed to grow twice as fast as unaltered fish, is safe, healthy and poses little threat to the environment, but there are many reasons to doubt these claims.

There is no need to endanger consumers and the environment by rushing to approve a poorly understood and potentially dangerous new GE salmon.

Ask your congressional representatives to support HR 521 and S 230.

And, while you're at it, consider this.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) is currently looking at policies that would allow factory fish farming in all U.S. federal waters. Some proponents of this policy are selling it as eco-friendly, but there is nothing green about factory farms.

Alaska Representative Don Young introduced House Bill 574, co-sponsored by Peter DeFazio, that would prevent regulatory agencies, like NOAA, from being able to authorize ocean factory fish farm operations.

Similar to land-based factory farms, factory fish farms are floating sea cages crammed with fish that are often fed unnatural diets and treated with antibiotics and other drugs. Worst of all, just like factory farms on land, these create a lot of waste - only this waste goes directly into the ocean.

The Obama Administration is letting corporate agribusiness call the shots. Tell President Obama to stop pushing corporate agribusiness' agenda. Learn more at TheCitizensWhoCare.org/fish.html