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Call for Mandatory Labeling of Farmed and Wild Salmon

When farmed salmon are labeled, they’ll be fakers no more. Buried deep in the 2002 Farm Bill is a little known requirement that labels must “distinguish between wild fish and farm-raised fish.” Industry interests are attempting to weaken this proposal. We have until April 2003 to send our comments to the US Department of Agriculture. Let them hear from you.

Email your comments to William Sessions, USDA Associate Deputy Administrator, at william.sessions@usda.gov.

Let the USDA know that you want fish to be labeled as wild or farmed and by country of origin [Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy]

Get Salmon Farming Out of the Oceans

The health of our oceans and wild fish is being sacrificed to subsidize salmon farming. Moving the farms to enclosed ponds would force the industry to pay more of the true costs of farming, leveling the economic playing field for coastal fishing communities.

Learn more about farmed salmon [Coastal Alliance for Aquaculture Reform]

Send a fax directly to the fish farming industry asking them to reform their practices [CAAR's FarmedAndDangerous.org]

Don’t Let the FDA Allow Genetically Engineered Salmon

While not on anyone’s dinner table just yet, GE salmon is just a pen stroke away. Aqua Bounty Farms has applied to the Food and Drug Administration for permission to market genetically engineered salmon, which would be the first GE livestock on the market. We should not be part of this experiment. More...

Tell the FDA not to approve the commercial growing of genetically engineered fish [The Campaign to Label Genetically Modified Foods]

Tell the FDA to Impose a Moratorium on the Approval of GE Fish Applications [Center for Food Safety]

Learn more about GE fish [Center for Food Safety]

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