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Sea food of any kind has never been more than a very rare part of my diet. Since the BP oil spill, sea food was not likely to be added back to my diet for a long time and since Japan and the additional oil spills, it seems unlikely that I would ever eat seafood again.
I only bring this up because I would imagine that I am not the only one who feels this way about seafood - but maybe I am. Now, BP would have us believe that any possible adverse affects of their massive oil spill, about a year ago, have all been realized and they were not so bad and they want further claim compensation to be discontinued. Do you believe BP? Do you still eat sea food? Do you think all sea food is fit for consumption or is only some of it fit for consumption? http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/07/11-6 Published on Monday, July 11, 2011 by The Raw Story
BP Calls on US to Halt Payments for Oil Spill Damages by Stephen C. Webster After approximately $4.5 billion paid out to victims of BP's record-breaking Gulf of Mexico oil spill, the company is urging U.S. officials with the Gulf Coast Claims Facility to halt further compensation. Citing an improving Gulf coast economy, the British oil giant said in a 29-page letter (PDF) released to the press that it does not expect any more residents or businesses to "incur a future loss related to the oil spill." "Multiple lines of evidence demonstrate that, to the extent that portions of the Gulf economy were impacted by the spill, recovery had occurred by the end of 2010, and that positive economic performance continues into 2011, with 2011 economic metrics exceeding pre-spill performance," the company added. The only exception made was for oyster farmers who are able to prove the company's pollution destroyed their oyster beds. Despite BP's rosy outlook on the future of its Gulf damage payments, many fishermen claim to still be experiencing the spill's ill-effects, with harvests of crab and oysters plunging significantly over last season. About 195,000 claims have been paid through the company's $20 billion fund, overseen by U.S. officials. The fund's administrator, Ken Feinberg, said in a prepared statement that he welcomes all input on "advisement," but made no comment on whether payments would stop. |
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I went to Red Lobster the other night, picked out the four tailed lobster, it was the best lobster I ever ate, now I have x-ray vision and can lift a semi single handed. I'm not complaining.
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The full impact of their spill has yet to be realized. they are just saying they paid to get out of paying more for the cleanup they still need to do!
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I'd like to feed their children fish and shell fish from the gulf and make them watch...at gun point if need be! |
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I do eat sea food. I do realize not only the oil spill but the radiation from the nuclear plant in Japan will be effecting sea food for a while. I try to eat farm grown fish anyway so that I am not contributing to depleting the sea of life. Humans are poisoning themselves and it is almost inescapable. If it isn't in their face, most regular folks don't worry about it. But when they get cancer and other immuno diseases I know it has to cross their minds then. |
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I'd like to feed their children fish and shell fish from the gulf and make them watch...at gun point if need be! i just spent a month in surfside, (next to Galveston)went fishing with my kids and nephews almost everyday... i didn't have a problem eating any of the fish we caught... they have warnings posted tho, about not eating to much in one day... and i wouldn't eat anything we caught in the bays either... |
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So it would seem that most of the posters are not greatly concerned with the quality of their seafood, so it might stand to reason that BP is correct, at least as far as - no one really much cares.
How sad, certainly makes trying to fight the organizations like Monsanto and the FDA a lot more difficult. |
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I love sea food. I grew up in New Orleans. BP is an evil company! That's all I have to say.......
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80 million gallons of oil a year seep into the Gulf of Mexico naturally. There are several types of bacteria that have evolved to live off of raw petroleum. The BP oil spill was more at one time than the ecosystem was used to, but they did a lot of work to clean it up. Given the passage of time and the reproduction rate of bacteria, I'm sure the gulf is fine and the seafood is just as safe as ever.
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80 million gallons of oil a year seep into the Gulf of Mexico naturally. There are several types of bacteria that have evolved to live off of raw petroleum. The BP oil spill was more at one time than the ecosystem was used to, but they did a lot of work to clean it up. Given the passage of time and the reproduction rate of bacteria, I'm sure the gulf is fine and the seafood is just as safe as ever.
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80 million gallons of oil a year seep into the Gulf of Mexico naturally. There are several types of bacteria that have evolved to live off of raw petroleum. The BP oil spill was more at one time than the ecosystem was used to, but they did a lot of work to clean it up. Given the passage of time and the reproduction rate of bacteria, I'm sure the gulf is fine and the seafood is just as safe as ever.
What did I say that isn't true? |
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Edited by
Dict8
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Wed 07/13/11 09:05 AM
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80 million gallons of oil a year seep into the Gulf of Mexico naturally. There are several types of bacteria that have evolved to live off of raw petroleum. The BP oil spill was more at one time than the ecosystem was used to, but they did a lot of work to clean it up. Given the passage of time and the reproduction rate of bacteria, I'm sure the gulf is fine and the seafood is just as safe as ever.
What did I say that isn't true? |
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So it would seem that most of the posters are not greatly concerned with the quality of their seafood, so it might stand to reason that BP is correct, at least as far as - no one really much cares. How sad, certainly makes trying to fight the organizations like Monsanto and the FDA a lot more difficult. i live on the gulf coast, and i just don't see a big change here... i don't get what your saying... your talking like you know something i don't, and i live here. if you think it is a big problem, then eat your veggies, not fish... i ate flounder, speckled trout, red fish and grouper fresh off my lines, for almost a month straight,and it was good and i'm still alive... why make a big deal out of something if there is no need to? |
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So it would seem that most of the posters are not greatly concerned with the quality of their seafood, so it might stand to reason that BP is correct, at least as far as - no one really much cares. How sad, certainly makes trying to fight the organizations like Monsanto and the FDA a lot more difficult. Hey, I'm all for fighting the FDA. Let's shut them down, that will go a long way to reducing our debt. |
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So it would seem that most of the posters are not greatly concerned with the quality of their seafood, so it might stand to reason that BP is correct, at least as far as - no one really much cares. How sad, certainly makes trying to fight the organizations like Monsanto and the FDA a lot more difficult. i live on the gulf coast, and i just don't see a big change here... i don't get what your saying... your talking like you know something i don't, and i live here. if you think it is a big problem, then eat your veggies, not fish... i ate flounder, speckled trout, red fish and grouper fresh off my lines, for almost a month straight,and it was good and i'm still alive... why make a big deal out of something if there is no need to? Not all the oil went to the surface. Actually some of it is so mineral rich it sinks. The damage underwater is greater than the coastal reaches. There are several areas that are being monitored in the deep water and it isn't looking good. There are deep water habitats that wee like lush jungles of soft bodied corals and hard bodied black corals and all of that post BP are dead now and there is no positive outlook for its recovery any time soon. We are not talking an area the size of a city like Los Angeles which takes more than two hours to drive across at 75 MPH. We are talking areas the size of states (plural) wiped out and poisoned with no real hope of recovery for at least 40 to 50 years. We are not talking super tanker running aground. We are talking almost 30 of them in comparison to the scope of oil losses. You could seed the ares with livestock but considering the toxins down there anything you plant would just die anyways. It is almost 30 years after the Exxon Valdez ran aground in Alaska and that area STILL has problems. There is also the issue of oil intrusion into marshlands and other tidal wetlands. The sheer area of it means that those areas are likely to have issues for a long time. At least it isn't like what Japan has to deal with right now! What if a coastal reactor blows here? What is the half life of U235? 25,000,000 years before it is only half as radioactive as when you started with it? Its convenient BP says they don't need to pay any more. Who are they to tell us when they are done fixing the damage they done? At least oil spills can be remediated. But the fact of the matter is they did not have a disaster plan or disaster response ready top tackle a rig explosion like his and on top of that the rig failed due to operator error! People died and the well dumped into the Gulf of Mexico for months before they managed to cap it. There is a lot more to this than what you see on the surface. BP doesn't want to face the music of their failure of not having a disaster response wasting at all. Yep, they are British Petroleum. They are going to change their name to DP becasue they Donkey Punch the planet! 
And for those of you who need a laugh... http://www.southparkstudios.com/full-episodes/s14e11-coon-2-hindsight Sorry about the ads but it is worth the laugh! This is what we will get if we keep letting them drill like they do! |
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