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http://gizmodo.com/5903021/bp-oil-spill-aftermath-eyeless-shrimp-clawless-crabs-and-fish-with-oozing-soresBP Oil Spill Aftermath: Eyeless Shrimp, Clawless Crabs and Fish with Oozing Sores
Al Jazeera just published an astonishing report on the after-effects of the BP oil disaster, and it's not pretty. There are an alarming number of deformities in sea creatures: mutated shrimp, fish with sores and lesions, eyeless crabs and more. It's unlike anything local fisherman have ever seen.
see: http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2012/04/201241682318260912.html
How bad is it?
The effect that the oil spill and its reckless cleanup has on sea life is frightening, damning and sad. Here's a list of deformities that Al Jazeera found in its report:
Shrimp with tumors on their heads
Shrimp with defects on their gills and "shells missing around their gills and head"
Shrimp without eyes
Shrimp with babies still attached to them
Eyeless fish
Fish without eye-sockets
Fish without covers on their gills
Fish with large pink masses hanging off their eyes and gills
Crates of blue crabs, all of which were lacking at least one claw
Crabs with holes in their shells
Crabs with shells that have no spikes or claws or misshapen claws
Crabs that are dying from within
..more..
Fawke Em
(11,366 posts)"Come on in! The water is fine!"
hootinholler
(26,449 posts)Part of the cleanup money allocated.
quinnox
(20,600 posts)mmm, mmmmm, get me that gulf coast seafood already!
xchrom
(108,903 posts)Hell Hath No Fury
(16,327 posts)media outlet to be talking about this?? Oh, yeah!, because we have to lull the American people into thinking it's all OK, and that oil and corexit are GOOD for the Gulf.
G_j
(40,372 posts)Damn "left wing media"
underpants
(182,946 posts)we can have hearing on the outlandish GSA convention but we never mention the missing $23 BILLION in Iraqi
no_hypocrisy
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Lifelong Protester
(8,421 posts)this corporate sponsored propaganda or those crappy ads that Exxonmobil keeps running about how a 'great teacher changed my life'. Really? How about you petro-creeps do something that would really be amazing-give back your tax subsidies. Give that money to a school system, fund a few school arts programs, do something for education than that ridiculous self-serving propaganda. I HATE THOSE ADS! (Can you tell?)
I feel terribly sorry for those folks on the Gulf, I really do. But these tourism ads, propped up by BP 'settlement money' really frost me.
Octafish
(55,745 posts)Didn't think they meant this, though.
Thanks for the headless BP heads-up, G_j.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)<a href="http://imgur.com/K88tU"><img src="" title="Hosted by imgur.com" alt="" /></a>
HockeyMom
(14,337 posts)nevermind eating the seafood, or swimming in the Gulf.
d_r
(6,907 posts)shrimp without eyes
crawfish pie
file gumbo
felix_numinous
(5,198 posts)How can we trust agencies that lie to us over and over? These are just the visible signs of mutation, there must be changes in their DNA, and they must be immune compromised.
OnyxCollie
(9,958 posts)caseymoz
(5,763 posts)The administration assured us the oil was all gone, six weeks after the spill! I remember people on the DU2 forum in the Gulf saying we should all come down and enjoy the food, or they would go bankrupt! Yes, please poison yourself, enjoy our hospitality so we can have your money. Somehow, that wasn't the friendliest invitation I'd ever had.
I remember a woman calling into NPR who said she bought gas from BP so that poor company would have money to clean up the spill! Are we a nation of petro-suckers or what?
Again, on this issue, just like education, global warming, the Iraq war, the Bush tax cuts, and about three dozen government policies and actions taken since 2000, the left was right. Again, the news is so effectively suppressed in the domestic press so that it takes an overseas news organization to break the story. The left predicted this, not because of anti-business bias but because the we're informed of the science. Petroleum absorption is like taking a shotgun to an organism's DNA, and that's just one of its bad effects.
I'm so glad we have a free press, and a free enterprise system to corrupt it.
rgbecker
(4,834 posts)WTF?
underpants
(182,946 posts)jus-theFACTS
(15 posts)The poison ooze has fucked up the Gulf for a loooong time.
Initech
(100,107 posts)SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)for Swamp Rat who warned us about this, and never believed the government's bullshit concerning the BP "spill".
Ship of Fools
(1,453 posts)Did anyone really think otherwise? Next big *water is wet* story
will involve Fukushima...
schlagehundenancee
(28 posts)since the leak.
I knew it would not be safe.
BTW I am a seafood lover but now not so much unless I know where it comes from and how it was handled.
malaise
(269,212 posts)said it was A OK and he didn't know why liberals were attacking that saintly company BP.
Jello Biafra
(439 posts)Oh, and another thing.....this came from Al-jazerra...if we watch this, it makes us Muslim sympathizers ( ).
DFW
(54,447 posts)I got blasted, including here on DU, for saying that the spill would have dramatic, long-term
consequences on the marine life, and that they would be felt for years afterward. All was NOT
well with the Gulf marine life.
It still isn't.
I hear ya, and there were quite a few BP apologisits here...