Originally Posted by waves

i was talking/wondering about that with my friends the other day.

it's no longer front page. no longer sensational.

another example of how the news has nought to do with being informational.

sometime back, i had read that certain seafood was considered "safe."

i frankly still would not eat seafood from the gulf even if it were labeled safe. i do not trust that labeling, specifically, i mistrust the approval processes and those responsible. this is because i strongly suspect that the weighing factors are surely more political than sanitary in any such decision: keep people happier in the here and now, disregard the longer-term aspects of marine-life repopulation as well as cumulative health risks of ingesting perhaps only "mildly contaminated" food over time.

it keeps the fishermen in their jobs, and the food service industries going, and the tourism industries going... with many closed eyes.

heck i even think about the gulf when i eat shrimp here... sigh.



~ waves ~