[usadatronourl]

Hi everyone. I haven't been around much and I'm sorry about that. I'm still working on the Cooper case, trying to raise awareness to the official misconduct in the case. Anyhow, I've been looking through old threads about the oil spill and the corexit chemical contamination because we bought some shrimp from Whole foods yesterday and I'm convinced it is contaminated with corexit. It was covered with a pink slime and it wouldn't even rinse off. When we contacted WF they tried to say it was eggs, but there's no way this gunk is eggs. We are going to go for a refund and we froze some of them to show the store manager. I wondered if anyone else has experienced anything like this. The more I read, the more I'm convinced that there are serious problems in the gulf. Plus, when we went to FL in '10 (Oct), both of my boys developed strange skin lesions after swimming in the ocean. It almost looked like a flesh eating bacteria.

I'm finding articles about shrimp with no eyes and shrimp with lesions. It's so awful.

I found this blog post and it seems exactly like what we saw.

contaminated shrimp.jpg

[ariniaxia]

Hi everyone. I haven't been around much and I'm sorry about that. I'm still working on the Cooper case, trying to raise awareness to the official misconduct in the case. Anyhow, I've been looking through old threads about the oil spill and the corexit chemical contamination because we bought some shrimp from Whole foods yesterday and I'm convinced it is contaminated with corexit. It was covered with a pink slime and it wouldn't even rinse off.

as of April 20, 2010, it became un-wise to eat shrimp and any other seafood that is the same species as any caught in the Gulf.

not many people have gas chromatographs & mass spectrometers at home with which to analyze food samples.

even the absence of pink slime & deformities does not mean that a batch of seafood is safe.

the USDA & FDA are 101% sold out to the industries that created the disaster, including BP & the makers of Corexit. they can not be counted on to keep the food safe.

Game Over for seafood lovers.


Vigilance is also needed so children & pregnant women especially are not exposed to foods grown in areas exposed to Corexit via rain, e.g. Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Florida, anywhere within 100 miles of the Gulf to be almost safe.


and then, on March 11, 2011, another layer of toxins was added to the food chain in the US, via Fukushima. although there the toxins are superimposed over the existing toxins, with the highest concentrations in Pacific Coast states.

that is partially theoretical - measuring the semi-random deposit of Fukushima radiation on US citizens is ongoing and is subject to weather patterns, in addition to the theoretical parts of chemical dispersion (inversely proportional to the distance from the source, inversely proportional to the distance from the source - squared, or some mathematical variation.)

[jagxj12]

I would not eat anything that forages/lives on the sea bed in that area for at least another decade, and that might be (imo) overly optimistic.


That picture looks absolutely revolting btw.

[usadatronourl]

I agree, it should be avoided! To be honest, I didn't even ask where the shrimp were from and wasn't thinking about the Gulf spill. We were just looking for something for dinner. Now I'm certain it had to be gulf shrimp. It's so horrible what happened down there. WHY did they dump those chemicals in the water?

[toponlinecasinoer]

Cold-water fish e.g. salmon, cod are still safe to purchase?

[Nemerov]

Cold-water fish e.g. salmon, cod are still safe to purchase?

Sure they would be safe to eat, providing that the fresh water they are caught and live in is not polluted with crap and agricultural runoff.


It is the salt/brackish water in the gulf where the seafood is caught that may be suspect, of pollution from the big oil spill.

Edit: Too add

Cold water saltwater fish should be safe, but I do wonder what the oil spill has done and is doing to the Atlantic gulf stream, that loops up the east coast and onto Europe.

Not sure if that is being studied, but I suspect it is.

Then also we have the potential "Glow in the Dark" fish, that the Japanese reactor fandango may be producing.

[ariniaxia]

Cold-water fish e.g. salmon, cod are still safe to purchase?

relatively.

problem is, how many cod sellers know where there cod hails from ?

[Zzvukttz]

Atlantic gulf streams, the Gulf itself, Pacific salmon (Fuku). I would say the food destruction program is coming along nicely............

[slarceSelia]

You really can't eat any sea food now. I have a knowledgeable contact in the Gulf dealing with fishermen. There is a way for packing plants to import shrimp from VietNam- some of the filthiest and most toxic waters- and you would think you are getting them from the Gulf of Mexico. You will see nothing on the packaging. Restaurants and stores are in the same boat. The boxes will ship out of Florida.