Gulf seafood deformities alarm scientists

[DeSwiss]

AlJazeeraEnglish·Published on Apr 17, 2012

It's almost two years since BP's oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Now, scientists say they have found deformities among seafood and a great decline in the numbers of marine life. Dahr Jamail reports from New Orleans.

“And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth. 'Who controls the past' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.” ― George Orwell, 1984

[Swede Atlanta]

1. Ah yes.....BP running ads that "all is well" here.......

We knew this was wishful thinking. The same ads have been run by the tourist promotion arms of the gulf states. They want everyone to think that all that oil that was released into the gulf just vanished without any impact on anything.

I no longer purchase any seafood that is from the gulf, period because I believe it is contaminated with BP's oil.

[hollysmom]

2. and the chemical to clean up the oil

[ZRT2209]

6. yuck

[dixiegrrrrl]

12. BP GAVE Alabama a few million to run ads

saying everything is joyous and happy down at the seashore, and the food and the air and the water is all fine and dandy.

reminded me of the scenes in Jaws where the sleazy Mayor kept fighting beach closure.

[Overseas]

3. K&R. So they used thousands of gallons of poison Corexit to make things look better at the time,

and try to get less of a fine, while knowing that two years down the road when deformities emerged, less people would be watching and BP would have had two years to work up other polluters to share the blame and ways to divert public attention.

[caseymoz]

13. Actually, deformities could have come from oil alone

Petroleum is a strong mutagen anyway.

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

4. K&R. Spraying the

...mass quantities of the widely banned poison Corexit created a much more toxic marine environment than if they had simply used skimmers to collect the oil from the surface, which is what experts said they should've done. I do not find it believable that they (not entirely sure who "they" are) were not trying to do harm in spraying all that Corexit poison. They were even spraying at night using aircraft with no nav lights (hard to believe but true). BP also early on simply ignored EPA orders to stop such massive spraying.

[UnrepentantLiberal]

5. I sure am glad our president is against offshore drilling.

[ZRT2209]

7. and I'm glad the American media is all over this story!

oh, wait...

[UnrepentantLiberal]

8. That too.

[limpyhobbler]

9. That's gross and sad (nt)

[cantbeserious]

10. Thousands Of Gallons Of Cancer Inducing Corexit Were Sprayed To Disperse The Oil

Is it any wonder that deformities have been found?

[hollysmom]

11. don't forget that we learned that shrimp

from Vietnam are fed pig poop and frequently avoid inspection

Wasn't that just on the news.

[Conium]

18. Shrimp are arthropods.

Bugs of the sea, if you like. Hey if the shrimp like it! Beats dumping it in the reservoir.

[hollysmom]

22. except the pigs are not in the healthiest environment

and supposedly this can spread a form of hepititus

[YOHABLO]

14. Well shrimp is off the menu, as is anything that comes out of the Gulf ...

Oh we might throw in anything that comes out of the Ocean. Let's not forget Fukushima. Yeah, the media won't touch this one for sure.

[savannah43]

27. Too bad that the origin of seafood (except for possibly the country of origin)

is not made known to consumers. Some pet foods, where they're apparently dumping fish that doesn't sell as people food, contain mainly fish and yet the label leads you to believe that it is chicken, turkey, or beef. For example, read very small print on the little gold colored plastic containers of Meow Mix. "Profits before lives" must be their business model.

[SunSeeker]

15. Sad that we have to reply on Al Jazeera to find out what is happening in our country. nt

[DeSwiss]

17. Al Jazeera doesn't have any.....

...seafood or BP commercials they could lose for telling the TRUTH.

- What Deepthroat said still applies: ''Always follow the money.''

[Curmudgeoness]

16. It takes AlJazeera to report this.

That says a lot in itself. This is something that everyone should be hearing about, and it is obvious that they will not. But common sense tells you that this was bound to happen.

We will destroy all life as we know it on earth if we continue to hide our heads in the sand. Then we will hear all about it on the news, with headlines like "What happened to life on earth?"

[Plucketeer]

19. Is that not the truth!

I think a fair thing to do would be to make the PTB at BP dine solely on Gulf seafoods.

[Curmudgeoness]

20. Ohhhh, that would be my heaven!

I would love to see them so much as go swimming there, and I won't see that either.

[paleotn]

21. They're one of the few outfits worldwide....

actually doing real journalism. The big US outlets are more or less corporate public relations.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

23. Who needs eyes?

After all, there's nothing to see here.

Move along.

[zeemike]

24. I lived along the gulf cost in the 60s and 70s

And to see those shrimp and that red snapper with the lesions on it just makes me sick.
they have fucked up that place in less than a generation.

[johnnyreb]

25. Sorry, Gulf

...The American Way of Life is not negotiable. /sarcasm

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[SmittynMo]

26. I don't doubt this at all

I have visited Key West and Ft Myers once a year for years. Since this fiasco with BP, it is quite obvious (based on pictures before and after), that the gulf has taken a big blow. IE: In Key West, before BP, the waters were a gorgeous blue green color. Now they are spotted with may areas of brown sections. All that oil and chemicals have destroyed the gulf. It quite sad to see, and I doubt it will ever recover. Thanks BP for destroying a beauty of nature. In my mind, those chemicals and millions of gallons of oil are still there. I will NEVER set foot in the gulf again, as I have a fear of deformities too. THANK YOU BP, you money hungry c***suckers. Get the drilling on land, where it can be contained quicker, as opposed to waiting a month to figure out how to contain an oil leak in water. Last I heard, there are still several leaks still in the gulf, but it never gets reported. WTF!!!