There are organizations of doctors and environmental doctors who are really questioning all the unknowns of all genetically engineered food, and that includes fish. For instance, that growth hormone that is used in salmon, the IGF-1 hormone, could cause cancers. There's a possibility of that.
Many doctors have talked about the inflammation of people's digestive systems, now that we have been eating genetically engineered food—not of our own will but often unknowingly.
They've talked about the increase in allergies. Also, with these salmon, they will probably need to use even more antibiotics than with the farmed salmon on land, because they're going to eat up to five times more food. They're very aggressive. Therefore, they'll probably need more antibiotics. We will be ingesting all of those. What will that do to us, to our immunity to antibiotics in the future? There are many questions like that. I imagine babies and children starting to eat this food now. What is it going to be like when they're our age?
These questions make us realize that as consumers we're becoming guinea pigs. We did have a precautionary principle in this country where you didn't put anything on the market until it was tested as safe.
These things have never been proven safe. They're on the market, so what do we do? Will they wait until we all get sick and then try to treat us? Maybe we'll survive, maybe we won't, if this keeps escalating.
There are serious questions about it.