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Exclusive: Multiple independent lab tests confirm oil in Gulf shrimp

By Stephen C. Webster
Wednesday, November 10, 2010 8:09 EDT
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Experts operating states apart confirm toxic content in not just shrimp, but crab and fish too

The federal government is going out of its way to assure the public that seafood pulled from recently reopened Gulf of Mexico waters is safe to consume, in spite of the largest accidental release of crude oil in America’s history.

However, testing methodologies used by the government to deem areas of water safe for commercial fishing are woefully inadequate and permit high levels of toxic compounds to slip into the human food chain, according to a series of scientific and medical professionals interviewed by Raw Story.

In two separate cases, a toxicologist and a chemist independently confirmed their seafood samples contained unusually high volumes of crude oil and harmful hydrocarbons — and some of this food was allegedly being sent to market.

One test, conducted by a chemist from Mobile, Alabama, employed a rudimentary chemical analysis of shrimp pulled from waters near Louisiana and found “oil and grease” in their digestive tracts.

The National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) tests, which are approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), have focused on the animal’s flesh, with samples shelled and cleaned before undergoing examination.

Unfortunately, many Gulf coast residents prepare shrimp whole, tossing the creatures into boiling water shells and all.

“I wouldn’t eat shrimp, fish or crab caught in the Gulf,” said Robert M. Naman, a chemist at ACT Labs in Mobile, Alabama, who conducted the test after being contacted by a New Orleans activist. “The problems people will face, health-wise, are something that people don’t understand.”

Naman also found that the oil was at an unusual high concentration: 193 parts-per-million (PPM).

Though Naman’s test did not provide a complete fingerprint of the chemical spectrum, his results are still “an important finding,” according to Dr. Susan Shaw, a marine toxicologist at the Marine Environmental Research Institute in Blue Hill, Maine.

“193 parts-per-million of petroleum in a crustacean is very high,” she told Raw Story. “You have to ask, what is the meaning from a human health perspective?

“This is another signal that oil is in the food chain in the Gulf. Oil has been found in subsea plumes, in seafloor sediments, where it will degrade very slowly and can be re-released into the food chain.”

Tainted seafood allegedly headed to market

In another series of tests, Dr. William Sawyer, of the Sanibel, Florida-based Toxicology Consultants & Assessment Specialists, replicated findings of oil in shrimp digestive tracts, but he noted an even higher content of harmful hydrocarbons in the flesh of other edible creatures.

And, Dr. Sawyer said, some of his test samples came from seafood on its way to market, pulled from waters recently classified as safe for commercial fishing activities.

“They did not test the [total petroleum hydrocarbons] (TPH) in their samples,” he said, calling his testing methodologies a much more comprehensive way of examining compounds present in seafood.

“The sensory test employed by the FDA detects compounds that are volatile that have an odor; we’re detecting compounds that are low volatility and are very low odor,” he added. “We found not only petroleum in the digestive tracts [of shrimp], but also in the edible portions of fish.

“We’ve collected shrimp, oysters and finned fish on their way to marketplace — we tested a good number of seafood samples and in 100 percent we found petroleum.”

The FDA says up to 100-PPM of oil and dispersant residue is safe to consume in finned fish, and 500-PPM is allowed for shellfish.

Dr. Sawyer, who has long been a vocal critic of these rules, called the government’s tests “little more than a farce.”

“[The FDA's safety threshold] is borderline absurd,” Naman added. “It’s geared so that shrimpers can go back to work, and that’s great — but if we’re talking about human health and the environment, you need to proceed slowly.”

The FDA ignored multiple requests for comment on this story.

Long-term health effects still unknown

Direct exposure to crude oil can cause a number of health issues for humans, but most of them are short-lived or relative and none of the potential long-term effects are guaranteed.

While the full array of effects are still being studied and debated by the medical community, crude oil does contain benzene, which can cause cancer, along with polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH), which are toxic to the brain and nervous system.

The latter has been found in virtually all NOAA samples of Gulf seafood, but very few samples exceeded the maximum allowable levels set by federal safety regulators. Even so, according to Dr. Sawyer, PAH levels detected by the NOAA in Gulf region shrimp were almost always 10 times that of levels found in shrimp farmed inland.

The FDA recently declared that out of 1,735 samples of Gulf seafood tested from June through Sept., only 13 showed levels of residues above its allowable threshold.

It is unclear whether regular consumption of this content of oil would sicken a person, how quickly its symptoms would begin to show, or in what ways they would manifest.

The initial effects of oil toxicity from ingestion include headaches, nausea, fatigue and rapid changes in mental state, according to Dr. Cyrus Rangan, assistant director of the California Poison Control System, who spoke to The Los Angeles Times in June.

Those changes in mental state may actually be the most damaging lasting effect of the BP oil spill, according to Dr. Russell W. H. Kridel, a member of the American Medical Association (AMA) Council on Science and Public Health.

Kridel, whose specialty is actually in plastic surgery and ear-nose-and-throat disorders, spoke to Raw Story because the AMA’s council has prepared a comprehensive report on the health effects of the BP oil spill.

“Most of the problems encountered [along the Gulf coast] were more mental health problems than anything else,” he said. “There are respiratory health problems just from burning oil. You can get rashes from skin contact, headaches, vomiting or nausea, which has affected a lot of relief workers.

“There’s a lot of chronic stress and mental health disorders too, and those last longer than the acute, short-term effects. We cannot really tell you the long-term effects, just because of lack of long-term studies.”

He added that while he could not comment on evidence of oil in the digestive tracts of shrimp, some marine life have consumed oil content for centuries due to natural seepage near fault lines thought to account for over 600,000 metric tonnes of oil released across all the world’s oceans every year.

By comparison, scientists with the US Geological Survey and US Department of Energy estimate BP spilled at or near 4.9 million barrels — or approximately 666,400 metric tonnes of crude.

“[Most other oil spills] don’t show any long term effects on the local populations, but the size of previous oil spills are not this large,” he said. “This was the largest oil disaster in US history so I really can’t say what the full effect will be.”

Yet still, “no group has issued a warning or concern that it could affect human health by eating seafood,” Dr. Kridel emphasized.

The AMA has been active in coordinating efforts to track the health effects of BP’s oil spill. A report, recently passed by the group’s house of delegates, committed the AMA to continued monitoring of spill-related health effects.

Risk-factors remain

Despite declaring safety, even the NOAA’s own tests show regular consumption of Gulf seafood will dramatically heighten one’s intake of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons.

This, combined with a lack of testing for total petroleum hydrocarbons — and questions as to whether samples were in great enough number to declare wide swaths of water safe for fishing — should be enough to convince any skeptical eater to avoid Gulf seafood for the time being.

“I’m not eating fish. I wouldn’t advise anyone to eat fish,” chemist Robert Naman insisted. “[The government is] more worried about livelihoods and tourism, but I’m ultimately more concerned with human health.”

Dr. Sawyer agreed: “I don’t recommend eating Gulf seafood, not with the risk of liver and kidney damage,” he said. “The reason FDA has not made that advisory is because they’ve relied on this sensory test. You may as well send inspectors out to look at the fish and say they look nice. They’re sniffing for something they can’t detect.”

Because of the unknown nature of the threat posed, chemically sensitive populations like women, children, the elderly and people with depressed immune function or existing illness would be especially well advised to exercise caution when choosing seafood.

“Once oil enters, it can damage every organ, every system in the body,” Dr. Shaw concluded. “There is no safe level of exposure to this oil, because it contains carcinogens, mutagens that can damage DNA and cause cancer and other chronic health problems. Many people in the Gulf have been exposed for months — not just workers but residents. There are hundreds of health complaints from local people with symptoms that resemble symptoms of oil exposure.

“It will be years, possibly decades, before we understand the extent and nature of the health effects caused by this spill.”

Photo: Flickr user adactio.

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Stephen C. Webster
Stephen C. Webster is the senior editor of Raw Story, and is based out of Austin, Texas. He previously worked as the associate editor of The Lone Star Iconoclast in Crawford, Texas, where he covered state politics and the peace movement’s resurgence at the start of the Iraq war. Webster has also contributed to publications such as True/Slant, Austin Monthly, The Dallas Business Journal, The Dallas Morning News, Fort Worth Weekly, The News Connection and others. Follow him on Twitter at @StephenCWebster.
 
 
 
 
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  • Kill Bill

    Eat farm raised saltwater crustaceans.

  • Dem. Socialism iza GOOD Thing!

    The saddest note of all? The drilling will continue which means “releases” will continue; pollution of flora, fauna, and humana will continue; the insanity of humanity’s greed will continue. Why?
    C-A-P-I-T-A-L-I-S-M fueled (pun) by G-R-E-E-D.

  • Anonymous

    Just wondering why women are more chemicallly sensitive than men. Specifically pregnant women?

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  • Anonymous

    Wow, thats kinda scary when you think about it. Wow.

    http://www.online-privacy.edu.tc

  • Anonymous

    10W-30?, 5W-30?, 30W? Be more specific. The older people that eat that shit should be using High Mileage 30W Rotella.

  • Anonymous

    Once the GOP takes over completely and “gets gubbermint off our backs” we won’t be reading bad news like this.

  • Anonymous

    More complex neuroendocrine systems – more nuanced interface than males’.

  • Anonymous

    No, the saddest part of all of this is that the government is actively trying to kill you. There is a eugenics program ongoing thanks to the Illuminati plan of depopulation. These people are nazis and they are now running the world.

  • Investigate-NWO-globalists

    Next these fascists will tell us that the oil in the seafood is actually good for us, like the mercury in our vaccines & fluoride in our water!!!

  • Anonymous

    Change we can eat, then die for.

  • CaptainHowdy

    The USDA under Obama… More change you can believe in.

  • CaptainHowdy

    The only problem with your stupid partisan BS, is that the current USDA is being run by Democratic appointees.

  • http://voxxrocks.com/blog/?page_id=396 HIStory Indeed

    Did we really ever take The Gov or or Queen Tiye, opps, Michelle seriously when they said it was safe? Come on…

  • Anonymous

    If all of the oil had been allowed to rise to the surface, I think we would have been better off in the long run. Unfortunately, BP was allowed to pump hundreds of thousands of gallons of Corexit more than a mile deep in an effort to break up the oil into tiny droplets before it reached the surface. Corexit is banned in the UK because the government there considers it too dangerous to human health.

    Corexit doesn’t reduce the amount of oil in the environment, it just breaks it up into tiny droplets that remain beneath the surface for a long time. It makes it more available for consumption by zooplankton and the fish, crabs and shrimp that feed on that contaminated zooplankton.

    The oil is still there. It’s just dispersed over a very wide area in very low concentrations. A lot of it has settled to the bottom where it will toxic to bottom feeders. It’s also killing off deepwater corals.

    One has to wonder what the long-terms effects on the human reproductive system and immune system might be from consumption of Corexit. The UK banned it as a known carcinogen.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ward-Pallotta/100000789267039 Ward Pallotta

    BP is airing plenty of commercials in Florida of happy business people who fish or run restaurants reassuring us that their seafood is safe and that BP has held up their end of the bargain.

  • Gialdimon

    Why is this so hard to understand? We simply cannot allow children to be poisoned by our own needs, whatever we think those needs may be. it would be better for our souls to all die.
    P.S. yes ONLY eat seafood that has NEVER TOUCHED THE OCEAN that comes from sterile contaminate free tanks ON LAND.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_625CIUFFPL6TBA24YPRLF5DPRI John

    Dude, he’s not saying that the Dems are any good. They allow the terrible status quo to remain. The Repubs will make it worse.

  • elizabethcostello

    So the government is still covering and covering up for BP.

    Why? Why are they doing this? We know it’s money but specifically what is going on? Who in the government is behind this crap? What officials signed off on lying to the American people (and anyone else) about the safety of this toxic crap?

    They should be publicly identified and questioned about their roles, if not by Congress (the GOP sure in the hell isn’t going to do it), then by lawyers for people suing BP, Halliburton, etc. It’s absolutely unconscionable that the government is doing this, though it is not at all surprising.

  • Anonymous

    Is this suppose to surprise someone? The surprise will happen when the fucking government holds BP, Halliburton and Deepwater Horizon RESPONSIBLE.

  • Anonymous

    Shiny, Happy, Oily PEOPLE !

  • Stina

    That’s disgusting and I’d spit in anyone’s face that tried to convince me of that! My heart goes out to all gulf residents affected but, sadly, it’s time to realize the gulf will never be the same. At least probably not in our lifetime.

  • Anonymous

    The oil would not have risen to the top either way.

    “Oil” is not a single compound but rather a mixture of many substances. Many are lighter than water and float. Some are heavier than water and they sink.

    Corexit probably has no effect at all, it’s “snake oil”. it’s just a scam for the company that makes it, they can sell it at massive profit to the government.

  • Anonymous

    And they will continue to do it as long as people like you continue to purchase their products. By doing so, you condone it.

  • Anonymous

    This is not true – they work together, evil twins, to make it bad, bad, bad, and worst! The only way we’ll have chance of changing things is when enough of us are non-partisan and can see the reality – that both parties work together assiduously every day to bring us to our knees.

    Don’t forget – the Neocons grew out of the liberal progressive movement – look it up for yourselves.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoconservatism

    http://tinyurl.com/2bhrfv6

    There is only one party, as I’ve said before, the Republocrats or the Democlicans. Call them whichever, they are one and the same.

    As long as you all believe there are two parties, we are doomed.

  • Stina

    Yeah I think he was being sarcastic and saying the repubs will just cover it up and not talk about it at all and deny deny deny like usual. Not that the dems are doing much better…. -_-

    when will humans start just looking out for other fucking humans???

  • Anonymous

    Come on…to be fair…these agency’s have been wholly co-opted by the corporations…for decades.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_BGH5X26HRB3QPLOYIGFCKKLYAY Ya

    Anyone who believes his/her government deserves to be poisoned.

    Modern darwinism.

    Kill off the gullible fools.

  • Anonymous

    Imagine how cheaply the fast food outlets will get the fish for those lousy fried fishwishes. Be sure to let it sit in the poisoned wrapper for a couple hours.

  • DesertSun59

    And there you have it. I posted comment after comment that this would happen. It’s going to be an issue for, at minimum, 10 years. It will cause cancers to spike in areas that ‘forget’ that the Gulf was filled with oil. And no one will EVER be prosecuted for this mess.

  • Anonymous

    Ahhh… however NOBODY, repeat, NO BODY in the US is really angry enough over any of this to STOP driving their car(s)!!!!!!!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Phillip-Eric-Norris/1573968216 Phillip Eric Norris

    Short term thinking and a lack of an all out research and testing program will cost the Gulf states dearly. The data will come out and if we push ahead to ignore the real danger our region and our local population will suffer for generations.

  • NadePaulKuciGravMcKi

    sure you can trust the controlled media
    sure you can trust the government

    remember the 9/11 pack o’ lies
    all you can eat at red lobster

  • Anonymous

    i believe ever since oil corps have been drilling in the gulf there has been a continual leaks of oil into the gulf, and to keep this fact from the government and citizens the oil corps have been also contually dumping ‘corexit’ into the gulf so they would not be find because of a leak. this information that is coming out since the bp platform explosion because it is under surveillance now and before the explosion no one cared what the corps dumped into the gulf.

  • Anonymous

    The greedy corporate scum never pay for their mistakes/crimes, ever.

    Meanwhile if the average American steps out of line you pay the consequences, the CEO’s go play golf.
    And our government is allowing these chumps to skate once again!

    And the tea bagger republicans want to give BP and the rest of them another huge tax cut! How nice!

  • Anonymous

    Another whole segment of production lost to China.
    Who benefits?
    The Chinese, and the importers and the companies who were already trying to sell imported seafood against the wishes of most Americans which was to buy US product.

    Well they want Chinese product now!
    Hope & Change, from Obushma and his gaggle of joos.

    Yep, a black man can be just as treacherous as anyone else. Keep teaching your Koolaid drinkers, Barry. I guess to make an omelet we will have to break a few eggs.

  • http://login.health.mx/gulf-seafood-assessing-its-safety-mayoclinic-com/ Gulf seafood: Assessing its safety – MayoClinic.com | Health.MX | Health Wellness

    [...] of Mexico is not known, there is consensus that many thousands of gallons escaped daily. …Exclusive: Multiple independent lab tests confirm oil in Gulf shrimpRaw [...]

  • Anonymous

    What a nightmare for the people of the gulf who depend on fishing for a living.

  • Anonymous

    Go somewhere else with your racism and anti-Semitism. There’s no call for it, and it discredits not only you but all the sites you spread them on, as well as we who read them.

  • Anonymous

    You tell me who benefits then.
    Dont stop at pronouns like “the multinationals”.. go till you find actual people and names who own them and run them.

  • http://philosophers-stone.co.uk/wordpress/2010/11/exclusive-multiple-independent-lab-tests-confirm-oil-in-gulf-shrimp-2/ Exclusive: Multiple independent lab tests confirm oil in Gulf shrimp | Philosophers stone

    [...] [more...] // [...]

  • http://www.idleworm.com/blog/2010/11/10/2000ad-good-news-ladies/ 2000AD: good news, ladies. | idleworm

    [...] labs tests show oil in shrimp: In two separate cases, a toxicologist and a chemist independently confirmed their seafood samples [...]

  • http://www.phplinkdirectory.com David DuVal

    In other news, Senator is introducing a bill to officially count oil as a vegetable on school lunches.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/42THFKXIPMJHQBIH6OPI4RVIDY Thebes

    I’ve been saying this for months. For months the average Raw Story reader has been told and believed that “the BP fiasco is over”. Now, after the (s)election- we find out that I was right, after any political damage could be done.

    BP and the complacent USA Federal Govt have nuked the food chain in the gulf and this won’t really be over in any of our lifetimes.

    BTW, Obama has been BP’s largest recipient of campaign monies.

  • Anonymous

    If the Democratic Leadership didn’t want to also extend the Bush tax cuts for the very wealthy, then Oilbomber would have already signed the damn bill allowing them to expire.

  • Anonymous

    Yes, and had this been the Bush Administration covering it’s own tracks, in concert with BP, and at the detriment of people’s health, then rightfully “progressives” and “liberals” would be screaming to high heaven for investigations into the cover-up of crimes.

  • Anonymous

    You must apologize to poor BP.

  • Anonymous

    Frantaylor, with all due respect and I mean with all DUE respect, you don’t know what the hell you are talking about.

    Just because it is true that “some” substances are heavier than water and sink, relative to the “mixture of many substances” in crude oil, doesn’t equate to Corexit “probably” having no effect at all.

    Corexit, applied through both aerial and at the source of the blowout, caused the oil that did rise to the surface to sink, or helped prevent it from rising to the surface in the first place. Futhermore, Frantaylor, Corexit ( a dispersant in case you didn’t know ) disperses the oil into the water column, where it is easily consumed by fish, crustaceans, etc.

    Counter to your absurd assertion, it is obvious, that had the oil been allowed to interact with the ocean water – even at the depth of release – without the use of a dispersant, then much more of the oil would have reached the surface, and would have been much easier to remove.

    The government claims, along with BP’s that most of the oil has just magically gone into the water and been dissolved and eaten by microbes with no problem, is a rationale that has been bought and paid for by the immense wealth of BP and Big Oil.

    The use of Corexit in the first place, was done primarily to hide the damn oil, for prettier pictures in the news. The Oilbomber Administration working with, and for BP, then made sure that reporters had minimal access to the gunk that escaped the Corexit application, by preventing access to oiled areas through intimidation and threat of fines and/or imprisonment. But that’s a whole other topic.

    To your last point, the government didn’t buy the Corexit. It is true however, that BP purchased massive amounts of Corexit from NALCO, a company with ties to BP. So yes, the profit chain in that sense was circular, but still doesn’t make the point that Corexit didn’t have a bad effect on the Gulf, and its residents.

    Why I just wasted 5 minutes of my time, I don’t know.

  • Anonymous

    idiot Rush said on his show yesterday that the oil was causing the growth of “microbes” that were good for the sea life…i think we should send him a big box of shrimp and crab from the gulf…

  • Anonymous

    I’ll help pay for the shrimp, but I have to figure he’s already got the crabs!

  • Anonymous

    BP has been running full page newspaper ads in the Clarion-Ledger (Jackson MS) with the tagline, ‘Making This Right’. OF course, in BPSpeak, ‘making this right’ means ‘limiting our liability’. And it’s always the same black lady with a BP shirt on looking all concerned. I’m sure BP is ‘making it right’ for her.

  • Anonymous

    do young boy prostitutes in South America usually have crabs?…if so, he probably does…

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_5I4JWTDTVGKLRT5HBETRKQOQWY mikefromArlington

    But hey, BP are the hero’s down there. They can do no wrong. Expand Gulf drilling right? Obama’s the monster in all this!

  • Anonymous

    How would we possibly know that there are people showing signs of toxic reaction if the initial symptoms have to do with brain function?

  • http://twitter.com/shivabeach Shiva

    and in the meantime BP is upset because they weren’t ready to handle the American media. Fortunately the Republicans are there to prop them up and throw oil on the rest of America

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Reggie-Pollard/100001060028493 Reggie Pollard

    Hey just a Caribou Barbie shout out to Ralphie 44! Bingo! Corporate asswipes are colorblind to whom will do their bidding! As long as the Oligarchy / Plutocracy is taking the wealth of A-merry-ca they are fine! In the 70′s they owned less than 9% of all wealth in America now in A-merry-ca they own over 23% of total wealth and working on 100% if we allow the zombies to continue to be the walking dead as UNEDUCATED VOTERS! BP & cohorts have a lot Gulf seafood to consume! I know that’s a Jack Bauer move!

  • Anonymous

    I think BP deserves another Republican apology.

  • Benway for the Nova Police

    But it’s “all natural” oil! It’s even “organic”! Why, BP is doing you a favor by “enhancing” your food supply with “all natural” “organic” ingredients! Ain’t it great to live in the Corporate States of America?

  • Benway for the Nova Police

    Shades of Reagan and catsup.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Gregory-Martin/100000564476826 Gregory Martin

    Hey, no worries, right? Another BP daiquiri with your shrimp plate?

  • Benway for the Nova Police

    Ralphie, I can understand your annoyance at those whose intellectual capacity dwarfs your own. I especially understand your irritation that the Jews, who only a few generations ago were lower class inhabitants of the Russian Empire, are now “making it” in American society while you still live in a trailer and have to clean toilets for a living. Obama should be more sensitive to losers like you. It’s the Christian thing to do.

  • Benway for the Nova Police

    You are the one making the charges. Tell me, what are the names of the members of the boards of directors of the top 100 multinational corporations in the world? What percentage of them are Jews? Inquiring minds want to know.

  • Anonymous

    Yes, and they’re selling democratic socialism as if it will cure all our ills to people who still believe giving all these new powers to this government will somehow make them stop controlling and killing us.

    And it is not capitalism that creates this kind of government. It is a corrupt government creating this greedy monopolism and calling calling it free-market capitalism.

    Maybe democratic socialism is a good thing in certain homogeneous societies, but not with this bankster-owned Federal government in charge, it ain’t.

  • Anonymous

    BP has so many hi top lawyers that these people will be dead of cancer long before any of this comes to a head where BP may have to pay up.

  • Benway for the Nova Police

    Lots of Indonesian shrimp at your local Korean market. Kind of ironic, don’t you think, considering WHO is WHERE right now?

  • Benway for the Nova Police

    I think that’s what we are doing, isn’t it?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jack-Etsweiler/100000840527716 Jack Etsweiler

    In the end, no matter who is assessed monetary responsibility, Gulf seafood is to one degree or another toxic. Halliburton? BP? How about the guy who mixed that particular batch of drilling mud? And that ocean of oil lying at the bottom of the Gulf? How much poison is leaching into the waters from that? It was dumb, bad luck. But someone must pay.

  • Dem. Socialism iza GOOD Thing!

    WHO is selling Dem Soc??? Not the Cap pigs! Where the hell do you get your info? Divined?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jack-Etsweiler/100000840527716 Jack Etsweiler

    You idiot. Check the dates that this project was green-lighted. George W. Bush, if you’re hunting for monsters.

  • http://www.theprogressivemind.info/?p=50660 The Progressive Mind » Exclusive: Multiple independent lab tests confirm oil in Gulf shrimp | Raw Story

    [...] Exclusive: Multiple independent lab tests confirm oil in Gulf shrimp | Raw Story. November 10th, 2010 | Category: Uncategorized | Comments are closed | [...]

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/5ADH43ZCS3NITAIJKNHHOXH5SY C H

    By the time someones son now in grade school, gets a law degree the rot will still be there. And a new lawyer will still be able to make his bones because of BP. The problems with fish and shrimp in the grocery stores is they do not always say where it has been caught.

    Tuna has mercury and shrimp caught in the Gulf has oil. I don’t eat either one. And I don’t eat food from China because their standards for everything are so low. My food comes from this country and occasionally a couple of others. But I check the packages thoroughly for the country of origin. Sometimes it only says who shipped it but not the origin. In which case I don’t buy it. I have a friend from China and she won’t buy from them either. You can find online, lists of recalls, and China is always at the top of the lists.

  • Anonymous

    Well, you got a “like” because I clicked in the wrong place. So I evened it out with a flag for moderator review. I, too, am very displeased with President Obama’s and the fed govt’s handling of this disaster, but your hate speech is completely unnecessary and destructive. Shame on you.

  • Anonymous

    The U.S. also produces a lot of farm-raised freshwater prawns, and that’s what I buy.

  • Anonymous

    Link to data supporting your assertion?

  • Anonymous

    According to geo research, the Gulf floor, like the seafloor off the Left Coast, has been leaking oil and methane for longer than the human species has existed.

    http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/blogs/j/d/jdf15/2010/05/back-when-this-all-first.php

  • Anonymous

    Howze about: “By doing so, you get to keep eating and paying your mortgage, college loans, utility bills, etc., etc., etc.”

    Make me a reasonably durable $13,000 hybrid or a battery-op that can cover at least 250 miles on a single charge, and I’m there. Until then, I’m stuck driving a conventional internal combustion car.

  • Anonymous

    I did.

  • Anonymous

    Was there ever any doubt that this was on the horizon. Those bastards with their TV commercials about such wonderful citizens they are about the “CLEAN UP” after the disaster make me want to puke. I’m already hearing that they are doing every thing they can to skate on claims made against them from fisherman and others affected by their criminal activity that I have “NO FAITH” in BP or Haliburton for that matter.

  • Anonymous

    Listen. Its not personal. Its like this.
    There is a ruling class in this country. That class is for all intents and purposes, in charge. That class controls this govt via money. It also controls the media.

    If you want to change ANYTHING, then we have to start openly discussing the things you want to flag me for.

    There is no other way to do it, there is no way around it, thats why we have this cultural taboo when it comes to dealing with them, and THAT my friend is no accident.

  • Anonymous

    Yes, perfect assessment…and George kept the beaches cleared of pesky reporters. He had them arrested and detained..and even now…he is lying through his teeth as he twists arms and prods Obama at the point of a gun to jump on his “BP is the greatest” bandwagon, to say nothing of Obama being water-boarded into allowing his agencies to approach the health issues with seemingly nothing more than a Mattel Microscope and a Kenner Give-a-Show Projector.

  • Anonymous

    Isn’t that what Obama promised? Free health care for all.

    People want socialist programs and vote for them, but under this corrupt government no socialist program can ever turn out good.

  • michael2317

    Thank You.

  • michael2317

    Just how does someone know if the seafood they buy is from the Gulf or not?
    This is going to scare many off seafood altogether, or push that business into fish farms where someone can get all the oil-free genetically-engineered salmon they can eat.

  • Anonymous

    Of course it’s not personal. But there is something you need to understand. As long as you look for people to put the blame on, you’ll find them. But you’ll never find the cause. Because the cause is not any individual or group of individuals. The cause is capital itself – not capitalism. Not a value system. Not individuals who believe in a value system. Not the individuals who serve capital. And above all, not individuals who belong to a given racial, ethnic or religious group.
    Something else you need to understand is that racism and other forms of divisiveness and exclusion only play into the hands of the system. They are even encouraged and fed, because like the circuses they keep our minds off what’s really happening, and has been happening since the dawn of history: Power must stay in power – or to put it another way, capital must expand.
    So come on – dare use the word and spell it right. Dare to be just one more hate baiter – there are hundreds out here. Or else give us the benefit of your knowledge and understanding and spare us the baiting – because whether you know it not, that’s what it is. You, too are blindly serving a purpose.

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  • Anonymous

    Don’t let Palin see this. She will be asserting it in her next speech. “Oil is organic so…”

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  • Anonymous

    my wife brought two lobster from halifax today. her father passed and she returned with a well deserved remembrance. the lobster were delicious. unfortunately, we had to serve them with a garlic butter base as there was no oil built in. off shore oil drilling is fantastic. if there had been a horrific oil spill off the coast of Nova Scotia, we wouldn’t have had to go to the trouble of melting that butter. we weren’t able to season with Corexit “dispersant”. apparently, you need a license to spread millions of gallons of it, because it’s so toxic. looking forward to that next Louisiana Gumbo. Just add salt!

  • http://freedomfighterradio.net/2010/11/11/multiple-independent-lab-tests-confirm-oil-in-gulf-shrimp/ Freedom Fighter Radio | Multiple Independent Lab Tests Confirm Oil in Gulf Shrimp

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  • panamarick

    As if any body has really bought the lie that Gulf of Mexico seafood is safe. Most people are eating it because of other reasons. Here’s a few. It has been discounted so extremely that it has stretched the food dollars of many unemployed/working class/poor people; making them throw caution to the wind. Another reason is people are stupid, and lastly some people still trust their government…wait I already said “people are stupid. Sorry.

    This week we are told the seafood is poison, that fast food and popcorn wrappers are poison and if you were to go to the FDA’s web site you’d find out that the list goes on and on of poisonous product we consume unknowingly every day.

    Doesn’t it make you wonder just how many degrees of separation there are between Febreze and Ranch dressing? Doesn’t it really?

  • http://bigdanblogger.blogspot.com/ Big Dan

    “Trust Us” – signed: the reckless drillers

  • Anonymous

    You just reiterated Ralphie’s complaint. You are painting the world with a huge brush of “us and them”. He asked you to be specific and instead you became even more generalized.

    Fail.

    And I don’t fall into the “Joos” catagory either.

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    O.K. I apologize. I missed your point. Obama made a LOT of promises and I guess it slipped my mind.

    Democratic Socialism would work here and COULD work here if it wasn’t demonized and sold as EVIL to a pathetically dumbed-down and Fox-programmed population.

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  • Anonymous

    They already did:
    Obama: Gulf Seafood is Delicious, Safe to Eat
    by Helena Bottemiller | Jun 16, 2010

    http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2010/06/obama-gulf-seafood-is-delicious-safe-to-eat/

  • Anonymous

    I say feed this shit to Joe “I apologize to BP” Barton!

  • Anonymous

    I say feed this shit to Joe “I apologize for the shakedown” Barton!

  • Anonymous

    What things, Ralphie…your speaking in vague generalizations. Obama didn’t casue the oil spill. uless of course the “ruling class” (I guess that would be the Chinese, the seafood companies, BP, Obama, Cheney, and on and on and on, all conspired to blow up an oil well so we would import Chinese oysters?) I don’t know about you, but I love oysters that Americans harvest off the coast of Washington and New England.

  • Anonymous

    Come on, is this necessary?

  • Anonymous

    No Ralphie, it’s your theory so it’s up to you to do that. Don’t pass the buck.

  • http://headlock.myopenid.com/ Headlock

    Remember folks, this is your Democratic President at work. I have no doubt that under Bush we could see oil dripping from the seafood and they would still deny it. But now it is Obama’s people that look you in the eye and LIE their asses off.

    Stop the partisan nonsense, Left and Right, and kick them all out.

  • Anonymous

    Not with the government being owned and run by criminals. And we would need an honest banking system for socialism to work here. That would mean taking over the Federal Reserve, getting it out of the hands of the hyper wealthy oligarchy and the banksters who represent the oligarchs’ interests and NOT OURS.

  • Anonymous

    Read it again. I was very specific.

  • Anonymous

    Duhhh! Where the fuck do they think millions of gallons of crude would end up?

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  • Anonymous

    Except for the ‘joos’ bit I agree with you, but because of the ‘joos’ bit I would never support you.

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  • Anonymous

    OK, so you were specific. I am going to research every single corporation you named. Then we’ll see what being “specific” get’s you.

  • Anonymous

    Where the fuck do they think millions of gallons of crude would end up?

    I firmly believe they thought in the fuel tanks of Hummers, Expeditions, 5L Mustangs, Chevy 3500s and the like.

  • Anonymous

    He prefers the Vietnamese shrimp.

  • Anonymous

    It’s like choosing between grey and gray. I think I’ll take the grey one, wait, hold on, I kinda like this gray one over here….

  • Anonymous

    I live on the Gulf Coast in Fort Walton Beach, Florida. My girlfriend showed me a picture of a fish her friend caught in September, a month after the oil spill allegedly stopped. This was a 30LB bull dolphin. The fisherman had filleted the fish. When he cut into the fish’s gut it poured out crude. We are looking at the issue the wrong way. We need to catch fish and squeeze the crude out of them. They’ll be worth more. And I have another question, by this time of year the bayous are usually full of dolphin cows and calves. The dolphins come up into the warmer protected waters. In years passed I could go to the inter coastal or the gulf and see dolphins at practically any time of day. I’ve only seen a scattered few this so far this year. Way, way, way less than I should be seeing. And I have yet to see any cows and calves. I’m scared the tainted fish and oil killed a huge population of dolphins. And I yet to hear if anyone has investigated the pod of Orca that live in the Gulf. I would love to know how they are doing.

  • Anonymous

    Nothing will change until we get off the Oil Industry’s business model: a highly inefficient internal combustion engine and liquid fuel business that dominates our transportation choices. Oil companies are pushing gas/oil, hydrogen, natural gas fuels b/c they own it…we will never be free of oil and lobbyist politics.
    With GOPs back, the oil agenda will be pushed and we will forever be chained to their high profit business model… I bet the Nissan Leaf lasts a month, if even.
    Let’s ask the President to exercise Eminent Domain over NiMH battery patents. These are most powerful traction batteries invented in US that will provide reliable, affordable all electric transportation and alleviate our economic and environmental issues; proven technology past 12 years….
    FYI: CHEVRON Oil Corporation owns those NiMH battery patents, will our leader take action?
    http://www.twocentpermile.org

  • Anonymous

    We need to get off the Oil Industry’s business model: a highly inefficient internal combustion engine and liquid fuel business that dominates our transportation choices. Oil companies are pushing gas/oil, hydrogen, natural gas fuels b/c they own it…we will never be free of oil and lobbyist politics.
    With GOPs back, the oil agenda will be pushed and we will forever be chained to their high profit business model… I bet the Nissan Leaf lasts a month, if even.
    Let’s ask the President to exercise Eminent Domain over NiMH battery patents. These are most powerful traction batteries invented in US that will provide reliable, affordable all electric transportation and alleviate our economic and environmental issues; proven technology past 12 years….
    FYI: CHEVRON Oil Corporation owns those NiMH battery patents, will our leader take action?
    http://www.twocentspermile.org/?p=2297

  • Anonymous

    Oily shrimp? It’s like butter

  • Anonymous

    I’ve noticed that the vast amount of BP PR advertising airing in Texas has one notable element missing. The dialect of every voice actor in the ads is very Midwestern, or neutral if you will.
    I’m reasonably certain that the people of the gulf states portrayed in the PR campaign would have a regional dialect somewhat different than someone from say Topeka Kansas. The dialect of most of the inhabitants of the gulf states are readily identifiable by their unique way of speech, way different than the “flat” neutral speech in the radio ads. The song by Aretha Franklin comes to mind every time I hear one of theses ads air…”Whose Zoomin’ Who”.

  • Anonymous

    Plug In Hybrid Diesels are coming which means Electric Car with extended range using Veg Oil as fuel. There is nothing the oil companies will be able to do about that. They will go down significantly, but they’re trying to maximize profits in the meantime. Bastards! Perhaps Super Capacitor technology will be unleashed, imagine mini mechanical non-explosive battery packs, you could replace any motor with an electric motor, power it with Super Capacitors and have a veg oil diesel generator on board for recharge if solar panels aren’t to be found…

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTAX-R2QEq0&NR=1&feature=fvwp

    Everyone should be into this stuff, it’s happening. Back to the Farm! Small Farm.

  • Anonymous

    Change you can catch.

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  • Anonymous

    Well, you’re partly right…it was Dick Cheney and his deregulation of the energy industry that paved the way for this to happen.

  • Anonymous

    He knows nothing about sulfate reducing bacteria (SRB). Not that he’s qualified to discuss anything in an expert manner, except how to score pills.

  • Anonymous

    And it was the Obama Administration that ran the BP street sweeper over the nice new pavement…get over the Bush thing…open your eyes…this shit’s be goin’ on a long time…it’s a club for senior red&blue’s…and you ain’t in it.

  • Anonymous

    Two comments – First, oil and gas leases are the 2nd largest source of $ for the Federal Government (behind income taxes) so you connect the dots… Second, nothing is going to keep Gulf Shrimp from ending up in China, being relabeled with some other “country of origin” and heading straight back here – very scary!

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1100553327 Adrian Ballew

    I fully agree with your question. Quite a bit of the customers who have come in to our store had absolutely no idea what they were looking at much less were they able to where the seafood came from. Additionally, some of what comes from markets is fresh-frozen and has been for weeks as by process of IQFon the gulf boats or by shipping method (No, your Alaskan salmon you bought from me in Galveston, TX isn’t local). No one has a clue that 60% of what is offered in the markets they shop from is a foreign, farm-raised product. Keep it fresh. Keep it chemical free by all means. Market owners: Keep it honest!

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1100553327 Adrian Ballew

    AMEN!

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1100553327 Adrian Ballew

    Keep in mind a product will say the country it was shipped from as the origin but not often will it elaborate on the initial origin. For instance, that bottom feeding Tilapia that you find so nummay may say it is a Texas product but may have actually been farm-raised in China, Vietnam or Mexico. Raised one place and processed elsewhere…

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1100553327 Adrian Ballew

    You have absolutely no idea. We as members of the commercial fishing industry have been raped of our passions and livelihood only to accept apology after waiting on hold for an hour via telephone with the U.S. Government.

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  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_DQYJRNTL4E3A3B7OXXQVK74HZM Kathy S

    The creatures of the sea swim here and there and back again. They don’t particularly pay attention to “clean”, “safe” or “contaminated” waters. (They don’t watch much 5 o’clock propaganda) Seriously though, how does anyone know where a shrimp or fish has been swimming for the past few months? Of course there is an educated guess. I am not willing to bet my health on that. I don’t care how inexpensive Gulf seafood gets.

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    Multiple Independent Lab Tests Confirm Oil in Gulf Shrimp…

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  • http://www.google.com/profiles/zogati#about HiBabyWhatsYourName

    I hope this entire fiasco is at the very least being used to monitor the health effects on the locals, and I’d like to think we’d get some truth wrung out before govmnt locks the documents down for the betterment of our “psychological well-being”.. Then I hope BP, Haliburton and the remaining accomplices are further punished once the evidence of harm has been acquired accordingly. But of course that will never happen. Because we are all government property; to do with as they see fit. Freedom isn’t reality, but a ploy; kinda like Jesus is to a huckster.

  • http://www.google.com/profiles/zogati#about HiBabyWhatsYourName

    I hope this entire fiasco is at the very least being used to monitor the health effects on the locals, and I’d like to think we’d get some truth wrung out before govmnt locks the documents down for the betterment of our “psychological well-being”.. Then I hope BP, Haliburton and the remaining accomplices are further punished once the evidence of harm has been acquired accordingly. But of course that will never happen. Because we are all government property; to do with as they see fit. Freedom isn’t reality, but a ploy; kinda like Jesus is to a huckster.

  • http://www.google.com/profiles/zogati#about HiBabyWhatsYourName

    I hope this entire fiasco is at the very least being used to monitor the health effects on the locals, and I’d like to think we’d get some truth wrung out before govmnt locks the documents down for the betterment of our “psychological well-being”.. Then I hope BP, Haliburton and the remaining accomplices are further punished once the evidence of harm has been acquired accordingly. But of course that will never happen. Because we are all government property; to do with as they see fit. Freedom isn’t reality, but a ploy; kinda like Jesus is to a huckster.

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