Transgenic Fish: Is this a good idea?

Discussion in 'The Bucket' started by Matt Rogers, Mar 17, 2010.

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  1. Puffer Chick

    Puffer Chick Giant Squid

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    kind of reminds me of the tattooed freshwater fish, sooo sad and inhumane, just leave the animals alone :D
     
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  3. Gresham

    Gresham Great Blue Whale

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    How so? Tattoos and trangenics are wildly different concepts. Now had you said GloFish, which are also a transgenic fish, then I would be on board. Good thing GloFish are illegal in Cali. I do agree about "painted" fish though, it should be stopped.
     
  4. pgoodsell

    pgoodsell Horrid Stonefish

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    Nature knows whats its doing. It has been doing it for hundreds of thousands of years. If we needed buff fish, nature would take care of it.
     
  5. Gresham

    Gresham Great Blue Whale

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    Dunno about nature knowing best in all cases. If that were the case nature would offer us cures for every ailment, disease, etc :) Who knows though, it just might and we may have all ready made such thing extinct with deforestation and polluting the ocean :(
     
  6. Magnus

    Magnus Sharknado

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    It makes me sad when man messes around with Nature. I would much rather buy 2 trouts than a genetically modified trout with bigger abs than mine.

    Just for the record, I do not have a 6 pack... just a keg.

    - Mag.
     
  7. ingtar_shinowa

    ingtar_shinowa Giant Squid

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    probably why there are diseases and such to try and regulate human populations I +1 the cancer comment, i wouldn't eat anything i caught here in MT that looked like that
     
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  9. xmetalfan99

    xmetalfan99 Giant Squid

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    New diseases will mutate by them doing this and who knows what it will mutate into. Most anglers and fish in the ecosystem these are put into will not like them and be unable to compete with them. What happened when we got rid of small pox? Oh, yea, HIV...
     
  10. billyboy2

    billyboy2 Coral Banded Shrimp

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    it should be illegal to do that! it's wrong on so many levels! can't wait for them to really mess up...
     
  11. the fisherman

    the fisherman Vlamingii Tang

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    It's not nice to fool with mother nature.
     
  12. xmetalfan99

    xmetalfan99 Giant Squid

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    It IS illegal in the UK.