Wednesday, April 18, 2012

But it smells OK so go ahead and eat it

Gulf seafood deformities alarm scientists



It's amazing that the only media outlet reporting this story is based half a world away.  Simply amazing.

3 comments:

Vern said...

What the hell is our government doing on our behalf??????

Why are you and AlJazerra the only ones sounding the alarm about our seafood and the problems in our food chain????????

I don't get it!!!

Vern said...

Well, at least it made the Huffingtonpost.com as a lead story.

jeffrey said...

Hey who is this dick kid the T-P assigned to write this shit?

On Thursday, a National Enquirer-esque story was featured on the local online publication, Eater Nola, which mostly writes about local restaurants and food trends. The story told of "borderline Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles-esque mutations" found in Gulf species and then linked to an Al-Jazeera news story that discussed Louisiana shrimp and crab catch as dramatically down as a result of these "mutated shrimp, crab and fish."

A video above that Al-Jazeera article interspliced random footage of people eating while it discussed these alleged declines in species. Last month, one headline within a similar Al-Jazeera story exclaimed in bold letters, "The shrimp are all dead."

A simple call to the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries to ask for shrimp catch numbers would have told the publication otherwise.