...most people don't use those as food anymore.  In fcat, I know several people who use the oil they secret as a bio-fuel.

That's good fish fry, I bet it makes tumors grow twice as fast too!  And that benefits the healthcare industry.  And the mortuary industry.

Only prosperity hating, nature worshiping heathens could object to all that multi-faceted  growth!  Please quit whining and pass the rGBH tilapia.

http://amazngdrx.blogharbor.com/blog John Schneider, Northern Wisconsin

The Sea Grant story is from 2003.  That snapshot is over 5 years old.

That means that these fish are already busy growing the economy..and the tumors!  That'll make you smile.

http://amazngdrx.blogharbor.com/blog John Schneider, Northern Wisconsin

Tom wrote...

"Turns out that feeding genetically modified cow hormones to fish makes them grow really big, really fast: They balloon to "nearly twice the size of control fish in four weeks." The FDA has yet to approve rBGH as a fish feed."

But I thought the rBGH pushers said there is no need to worry about rBGH affecting human health... recombinant proteins are degraded by the digestive system and inactivated.

Hmmm... yet, someone can sprinkle the stuff on fish food, toss in the water, and the tilapia can consume it and then grow faster. Humans are not affected, but an organism more distant from us than a cow IS affected? Fascinating.

So... rBGH manufacturers... are organisms NOT affected by consuming rBGH or is it a nifty new feed additive? If it shows up in cow milk re humans really NOT affected?

If it made it to the children in MILK, will it not get there in Fish? I guess that our kids do not eat fish ether.Gee I guess that I will have to be limited to only what I can grow myself to really be safe. But what will I use for fertilizer? Gee I wonder if the r bgh may get threw the cow if I use cow manure. I am glad all this is slow poison and don't hurt as it kills me. I wonder if I am the only one dieing or if even the politico's get theirs from the same farms?

I tried to contain my self but I escaped.

...good point Tom, but please take note that those figures are for per capita, and not total amount.  It quickly drops lower in that category.

Plus notice it doesn't specify the use of the Tilapia.  I know several people who use it as a bio-fuel, not as a food source.  I don't know what percentage of the ovarall industry does that, but it could have an impact on those figures.

I've also heard that some fish farms actually use 'em as feed for other fish, so a marked increase could just represent a marked increase in use as feed for other fish (not that the concept would be a good thing either...)

Taser,

Tilapia is quite popular in restaurants here in the San Francisco Bay Area.  Can't speak for the rest of the country, but it's very common on menus here.