Posted on 06/30/2010 10:29:48 AM PDT by blam
Researchers Have Now Found Evidence Of Oil Contamination In Gulf's Food Chain
Gus Lubin
Jun. 30, 2010, 11:16 AM
Yellow oil droplets INSIDE the crab
Researchers made another ugly discovery in the giant Gulf of Mexico petri dish.
Oil particles have been found beneath the shells of larval crabs, according to Mississippi Press. Not only does larva contamination auger ill for other creatures, but it will certainly work its way up the the food chain to affect everything:
The tiny droplets are visible under the transparent shells of the 2-millimeter-sized crabs collected in Davis Bayou, said Harriet Perry, director for the University of Southern Mississippi Gulf Coast Research Laboratorys Center for Fisheries Research and Development.
"These larvae are up in the marsh and they are picked off by small fish, small speckled trout and those type of things, so that's the way these things get into the food chain," she said.
Of course larger animals could choke on the toxic oil directly. There was that dead whale and then this sad video of whales swimming through the dangerzone:
Swimming with a whale shark off the Alabama coast
(click to the site of the article to see the video)
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(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
It's always something, lol.
It’s Bush’s fault. (sarc)
Is it still? Some of the lefty blogs are telling me Halliburton had a hand in all this; so, isn’t it Cheney’s fault now?? /s
F-ing Zero.
F-ing Zero.
ping to the link in post#2
“Warning To Gulf Volunteers: Almost Every Cleanup Worker From The 1989 Exxon Valdez Disaster Is Now Dead”
Any facts to back up this assertion? I’ve never heard anything like that before and there are no facts or hard data in the link to back the claim.
Nah...I just post'em. If you disprove or approve their assertion,....makes no difference to me.
Feel free to disprove it. I doubt you can. I already tried. It’s true.
Every clean-up worker from the 1986 Chernobyl accident IS dead..................
Well, it’s everyone’s fault except Obama and his clowns.
"You were not smart enough to invest in NALCO.
So now you all will just eat our overseas-made
dispersants as your future crab, fish and salad dressing.
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Where is the proof then? The burden of proof here is to say it’s true more so than to say it’s untrue.
Bump
Total BS. I know several people personally who worked clean up of the Valdez spill. My company while in Alaska was one of the largest contributors of people.
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