Professor Christoffersen cites salmon farming as an example. The crowded cages make the salmon more vulnerable to disease and parasites. Instead of providing farmed salmon with better conditions, we just give them antibiotics. He adds that this type of technology is a competitive factor in western overproduction. Excessive production of farmed salmon in Norway will mean that other European producers will go to the wall and this will not benefit the world food shortage.
People always set themselves shortterm goals and never think about the longterm consequences.
Many people find it difficult to distinguish between the concepts of gene manipulation and hormone treatment. If an animal is to be t reated with hormones to produce the same effects as above, it would be given a hormone, either through its feed or via injections.