In an extraordinarily gross move, the FDA has given permission to scientist to go full force on whatever disgusting experiments they want to conduct on animals, all, supposedly for the benefit of the consumer:

The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday opened the way for genetically engineered salmon, cows and other animals to move from the laboratory to the marketplace, unveiling an approval process that would treat the modified creatures like drugs.

The guidelines make explicit the regulatory hoops that companies would have to jump through to sell products from modified animals. “It’s about time the federal government has acknowledged that these animals are on [the] doorstep and need to be regulated to ensure their safety,” said Greg Jaffe, director of the project on biotechnology at the Center for Science in the Public Interest in Washington.

Many experts, however, fear that the proposed regulations do not go far enough. In particular, they argue that the approval process would be highly secretive to protect the commercial interests of the companies involved. They also say the new rules do not place sufficient weight on the environmental effect of what many consider to be “Frankenstein” animals.

I am not even close to a religious person. I do, however, believe that Mother Nature is the only scientist that has ever known what the hell she was doing. Thus, outside of the fact that I find genetically modifying animals to be morally wrong because how they treat the lives of animals–I also find GM to be ethically wrong because they do nothing at all to improve the lives of animals or humans. And shouldn’t every scientists’ ethical responsibility to society be to improve society’s quality of living rather than destroy it?