Study says plastic found in a third of ocean fish

[Liberal_in_LA]

Study says plastic found in a third of ocean fish

Researchers say about a third of the fish collected in the northern Pacific Ocean had plastic in their stomachs.

The Long Beach-based Algalita Marine Research Foundation and the Costa Mesa-based Southern California Coastal Water Research Project says the study shows the troubling effect floating litter has on marine life.

The study says about 35 percent of the fish collected during a 2008 research expedition had ingested plastic. Researchers trawled 1,000 miles off the coast for fish living among floating debris in an area known as the Eastern Garbage Patch.

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comment following article: This is probably the most serious story on SFgate right now.

Earthquakes happen, tsunamis happen..

But a food web forever altered by ingested plastic...

That's a new problem we've invented for ourselves.

[stockholmer]

1. and Chinese companies are making fake edible rice with plastic

http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/biz/2011/01/182_80040.html

I guess plastic is the new GMO ;(



"China famous for having all, making all, has now been reported to have made rice out of plastic and has distributed it.

The Korean-language Weekly Hong Kong in Hong Kong quoted Singapore media that “Fake rice made out of plastic is massively sold on the Chinese market.”

According to the report, some distributors are selling fake rice in Taiyuan, Shaanxi Province, and this rice is a mixture of potatoes, sweet potatoes and plastic.

“This ‘plastic rice’ is made by forming potatoes and sweet potatoes into rice-like shape, then adding industrial synthetic resins,” said a food expert. “Since the rice is different from normal rice, it is hard like stone even when cooked. Moreover, the synthetic resin in it is very harmful to the human body.”

One Chinese restaurant association official warns that eating three bowls of ‘plastic rice’ is the same as eating one vinyl bag. He added that since the rice is very dangerous there would be strict investigation on the rice factory.

In the mean time, merchants say that as the fake rice can leave huge profits, it is still sold in mass quantity..............."

[Liberal_in_LA]

2. awful!

[valerief]

3. OMG, the crooks running this country will be selling it here in a blink. nt

[femrap]

4. I never buy food from China....

bags of shrimp are often from China. I won't buy it. I only buy Chinese products when I absolutely have to.

Their Big Biz/Gov't is just as Greedy as ours....more so, possibly.

And why the hell are people littering in the oceans????? Shit. Dumb fucks.