Here is something we have been hearing about every single day on the news about this summer, but all has been forgotten since then. The BP oil spill! The oil did not magically disappear after the huge spill, but news reporters got tired of talking about it and people’s attention drifted elsewhere. The government has estimated 600,000 to 1.2 million gallons were leaking per day into the ocean... Where is it all now?
Well the scientists have now quietly announced that the oil has entered the food web. Anyone surprised? Scientists say they have for the first time tracked how certain nontoxic elements of oil from the BP spill quickly became dinner for plankton, entering the food web in the Gulf of Mexico. The study didn't specifically track the toxic components of the oil that has people worried. It focused on the way the basic element carbon moved through the beginnings of the all-important food web.
Will no one tell us the truth about the sea food that we consume? All the scientists and the government try to convince us that it is safe to swim in the Gulf of Mexico and the food is completely safe... Well, I urge you to take a look at the pictures and tell me how safe you truly think this looks!We have destroyed the habitat of many animals and refuse to take the responsibility for it.
The truth always eventually comes out. Hopefully there will be a journalist somewhere willing to report it.
ReplyDeleteThat is an optimistic way to look at it... Hopefully there will be scientists willing to do the research necessary in order for a journalist to reveal the truth.
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