May 23, 2014 — Alaska’s Republican Senator got a special kind of birthday present Thursday when her “Frankenfish” amendment was added to the 2015 Agriculture spending bill by a congressional committee.
The language requires companies to label genetically engineered salmon if the federal Food and Drug Administration makes the “wrong-headed” decision to allow the fish to be sold.
“Why would we be messing with Mother Nature like this?” Murkowski asked senators before the vote on the amendment. “Why would we put so much at risk? Why would we invent a species that will outgrow our healthy natural stocks?
“This Frankenfish experiment puts at risk the health of our fisheries not only in Alaska, but our fisheries nationwide,” she added. “I don’t even think we should call this science experiment a salmon at all.”