Scientists are discovering oil within the larvae of sea animals in the Gulf. The oil is affecting life at this fundamental point of biological origination.
We can weep, we can get angry, but its there and it will takes decades for the Gulf to improve.
McClatchy: Oil found in Gulf crabs raises new food chain fears
Scientists with the University of Southern Mississippi and Tulane University in New Orleans have found droplets of oil in the larvae of blue crabs and fiddler crabs sampled from Louisiana to Pensacola, Fla.
She said she has never seen such contamination in her 42 years of studying blue crab.
“When you think about it all, how this has changed everybody’s life and how life here revolves around the water and the beach and the seafood — just even going to get a shrimp po-boy — it’s just overwhelming. I think a hurricane is easy compared to this..."
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BP's answer and their Rt. wingnut cheerleader's would be OIL's good for your digestion.
Painfully true.
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