Bullshit: Chemical dispersants used in gulf oil spill don’t hurt seafood safety, FDA says
i’d like the fda to take a bowl of shrimp, soak it in crude oil and corexit and eat it in front of me. or maybe if they can’t go that far, how about just swallowing some formula 409 ceviche.
Chemical dispersants used in gulf oil spill don’t hurt seafood safety, FDA says.
now watch susan shaw’s tedxoilspill talk on marine toxicology.
dear NOAA and FDA, i’m not happy with you right now. and i’m not happy with joel achenbach’s initial account on the static kill, which was happily headlined ‘Static kill’ deemed a success, gulf waters begin clearing. BP has been dumping dispersants into the spill for months to mask the size of the spill. Editorializing via column style reportage and minimizing the catastrophic devestation in cute language like this lede:
On the 107th day of the Deepwater Horizon disaster, the Macondo well became an apparently harmless hole in the seafloor, clogged with 13-pound-per-gallon gunk, and barely more of a threat to spew oil into the Gulf of Mexico than to start gushing lemonade.
oh yeah, life gives you lemons, make lemonade. good job helping the spin machine to minimize the public awareness of the deepwater horizon event and let us go back to driving our big cars and buying stuff as usual… like allowing BP to keep drilling on the site.
the real tragedy of this event will be if we don’t heed the disaster as a wake up call to change as a collective culture.
