 To: Hon. Leona Aglukkaq, Minister of the Environment
Re: Please Stop Genetically Modified Salmon
Date: Monday 02 December 2013 Cc: Hon. Gail Shea, Minister of Fisheries and Oceans
Cc: Robert Chisholm, NDP Fisheries Critic
Cc: Hon. Lawrence MacAulay, Liberal Party Fisheries Critic
Cc: Elizabeth May, Green Party Leader
Cc: Megan Leslie, NDP Environment Critic
Cc: Hon. John McKay, Liberal Environment Critic
Cc: André Bellavance, Bloc Québécois Dear Minister Aglukkaq,
I am writing to express my opposition to your decision to allow the
production of genetically modified (GM) fish eggs in Prince Edward Island.
The small U.S. company AquaBounty wants to send all of its GM Atlantic
salmon eggs from Prince Edward Island to Panama for growing out and
processing, to send the fish into the US consumer market. This plan is
extremely risky for Canada and the rest of the world.
Its unacceptable that the entire process for assessing the environmental
risk was secret and that the public had no chance to be involved or
consulted.
Canada has an international responsibility to stop this living pollution.
Please reverse this decision and make sure that Environment Canada does not
approve the production of GM salmon or any other GM fish in Canada. The
risk to Atlantic salmon and our environment is too great.
I urge you to take immediate action to stop GM salmon in order to protect
endangered wild Atlantic salmon.
Thank you for your attention to this urgent issue.
Sincerely,
Konstantin Smolentsev
@GreenOffOn
http://greenoffon.com
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