A report today from New Orleans reveals that the "orange blobs found lodged in the bodies of tiny blue crab larvae collected from marshes that stretch from Texas to Florida" appear to contain Corexit, according to preliminary results from researchers at Tulane University.The complete report (with video) is HERE.
The report says BP's dispersant "may do more harm than the oil itself."
University of New Orleans' Martin O'Connell, Ph.D said, "No one really knows" if Corexit will bio-accumulate. "If you're a small fish and you eat 1,000 of these small crab larvae and all of them have oil or Corexit droplets in them they could get into the fish — that little fish could be eaten and so on and so on."
And so it goes.
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Just another reason for me not to eat seafood. I am sorry for those whose livelihoods depend on harvesting the Bounty of the Deep for I for one will not be ingesting any of it. Having said that, I do realize that others sources of food (beef) aren't all that much better either. I guess that's why I am transmigrating to vegetarianism. And that's not totally safe either. No matter, I'll be dead in a few years anyway. It's all gravy now. I'm not being TOO cynical am I?
ReplyDeleteOne of the basic rules of the environment is you cannot get rid of anything. This sounds a lot like mercury, slowly accumulating in the higher chain of food.
ReplyDelete...and we used to be concerned about levels of mercury in seafood!
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