Comments on: Gulf seafood "horribly deformed"

By: rebootd

rebootd — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 12:04:00 +0000

Anyone who conspired/agreed to go ahead with the dispersants should be in prison.

By: MarcVader

MarcVader — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 14:02:00 +0000

*effect

By: john

john — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 10:36:00 +0000

well said.

By: john

john — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 10:33:00 +0000

I like those core right wingers. Eating red meat increases the chances of having cancer. I try to stay away from the seafood from the Gulf coast.

By: Patrick Kidd

Patrick Kidd — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 18:26:00 +0000

Who said the government should clean it up? BP should clean it up!

By: Ultan

Ultan — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 17:52:00 +0000

Yeah, I’m not happy with that blog at all. Unfortunately it was the best English-language source I could find.

By: Guido

Guido — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 15:51:00 +0000

Well, yes. I am biologist, but I did not want to seem nitpicking.

By: Susanna King

Susanna King — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 13:30:00 +0000

Time to work up some new bumper stickers for the South Carolina shrimpers: Eat Local South Carolina Shrimp: Guaranteed Non-Mutagenic.

By: rtb61

rtb61 — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 07:26:00 +0000

That’s right, let’s turn everything into an experiment. Who needs those food regulations, if you don’t die from botulism than it’s safe to eat if you do die then you stop buying and the company goes bankrupt, hyuck, hyuck.
Who needs surgeons licences, if the surgeon kills all their patients, then he has none and goes bankrupt, hyuck, hycuk.
Pilots licence, don’t need that regulation, taking off is easy landing, well if they crash, problem solved no more pilot, hyuck, hyuck.
Let the free market sort itself out, there are plenty of men, women and children to try and die, why bother with regulations they just suck up God ordained profits.
If the moron state would only just eat shit and die, oh wait, they are doing that as we speak.

By: Cowicide

Cowicide — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 02:36:00 +0000

Between hating on evolution, the environment, science in general and Gawd’s planned apocalypse making everything but Bible study useless… we just can’t win with these people, I guess..

By: Dr P Fenderson

Dr P Fenderson — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 01:20:00 +0000

Did you even read that article? It’s full of misspellings, atrocities against grammar, and uses (as its only 2 sources) a Chinese TV network and an Iranian one. Because *that’s* a reliable news…blog.

By: Ultan

Ultan — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 00:55:00 +0000

Here is the most complete roundup of BP oil spill stories I have found:
http://whatreallyhappened.com/category/gulf-oil-disaster
The sources are of varying credibility, be careful.

By: Ultan

Ultan — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 00:47:00 +0000

…or that is accused by their former employees of faking the news out of Syria to give it a pro-western-backed revolution slant.
( http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2012/04/05/exclusive-video-al-jazeera-faked-syria-libya-news-reports-producer-114282/ and linked stories.)
Edit:Maybe the bombing and other deadly attacks by US forces against Al-Jazeera in Iraq has softened them up. Also, CNN has been accused of worse in the Libya and Syria reporting.

By: Rickmccl

Rickmccl — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 00:02:00 +0000

Boing boing central, please put Godzilla on standby. We may need his help with giant shrimps.

By: Luke

Luke — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 23:42:00 +0000

I hate you BP.

By: Dr P Fenderson

Dr P Fenderson — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 21:18:00 +0000

Exactly! It’s not like they’re a legitimate and respected global news network that won the 2012 Peabody Award, or News Channel of the Year at the Royal Television Society Awards (beating BBC and Sky News)….oh, wait.

By: IronEdithKidd

IronEdithKidd — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 20:44:00 +0000

I’m an atheist pescetarian. You may call me Beelzebub.

By: Cowicide

Cowicide — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 20:42:00 +0000

That would do wonders for multitasking masturbation. Praise Jeebus!

By: MarcVader

MarcVader — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 20:30:00 +0000

Those deformed critters — another sign that the end is near! So no sense in protecting the environment anyway.

By: MarcVader

MarcVader — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 20:24:00 +0000

Industrial solvents, drilling fluids, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons – the works! In never before seen amounts! I wouldn’t be surprised if this stuff could turn Bambi’s offspring into Alien.

By: MarcVader

MarcVader — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 20:19:00 +0000

Well, I just said the other day I could use another arm or two… (Besides it’s probably all God’s will or something.)

By: Cowicide

Cowicide — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 20:17:00 +0000

Agreed, and protecting the environment is certainly similar to contraception in a way as well. Can’t have that, either.

My God, we’re surrounded by baboons!

By: Cowicide

Cowicide — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 20:15:00 +0000

http://www.osborneink.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/super-clap.gif

By: Justin Forposting

Justin Forposting — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 20:04:00 +0000

Easy.

Show me a shrimp from anywhere that doesn’t already look “horribly deformed”, you can’t cause it’s a weird looking creature. A weird looking tasty creature, just the way god made ‘em. It’s the ugly that makes them so scrumptious. Have you tasted one of the new shrimp, one of the modern shrimp, one of the uglier and therefore tastier shrimp? No, of course not cause the liberals won’t let you try one, worried about animal rights and toxins and so on. If the nanny state would just let the American People take responsibility for themselves and their own risk taking, then the free market could start selling 21st century shrimp and the gulf seafood industry would not only be back on its feet, but also adding jobs at a critical time. ”Critical time” being anytime during the job-hating presidency of Obama.

oh, I’m a little disturbed at how easy that was.

By: MarcVader

MarcVader — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 19:52:00 +0000

We live in a system that rewards non-critical thinking. So it’s not a big surprise that a journalist looking for ‘experts’ will end up interviewing so-called scientists (I’d prefer to call them scientific workers) whose grasp of the complexity of the marine ecosystem is well, shallow. The birds, turtles and so on that were washed ashore dead during this spill were comparably few and comparably little oil reached the beaches and marshes. So the ‘experts’ working in their niche say: “Hey it wasn’t as bad as we feared”…

Meanwhile the biggest, deepest oil spill in US history though plugged probably continues to poison the very base of the complex marine food chain with that really diverse cocktail of toxic hydrocarbons. Hey and let’s not forget the tons and tons of dispersing agents. All these chemicals continue to react in unforeseen ways inside and outside organisms.

And after all we know more about the moon than we know about the deep ocean. Now, oopsie, we’re seeing these deformed creatures, so now the contamination has arrived in the middle of the food chain… Clearly the picture painted by many of the so-called experts is very incomplete. The harm done by this spill could be unprecedented and we wouldn’t know about it.

That’s why it’s so irresponsible to go drilling in the deep ocean in the first place. The big corporations like BP don’t give a shit about the ecology and their world view is not informed by science but the only thing that matters to them – the bottom line. And that’s true for almost every other aspect of our economy. Ecological disaster looms while we have hardly begun to understand life, the oceans and the climate of this planet.

If we can’t correct that we humans truly are the cancer of this planet.

By: Ashen Victor

Ashen Victor — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 19:43:00 +0000

Cthulhu called, he said “stop adding tentacles, eyes, and unspeakable organs to things that are horrible enough”.

Later, the elder god added “That´s Shub-niggurath job”.

The fungi from Yuggoth could not be reached for comments.

By: Gunker

Gunker — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 19:09:00 +0000

Would that make it a shrmp ?

By: Matthew Petty

Matthew Petty — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 18:33:00 +0000

Uh-oh. Looks like Guy N Smith’s “Crabs” books are going to come true.

http://vaultofevil.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=crabsontherampage&action=display&thread=248

By: Hunter Hubbell

Hunter Hubbell — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 17:59:00 +0000

It has an Arab name! how terrifying! not at all like unbiased news sources such as Fox News, CNN, or the BBC!

By: The Life Of Bryan

The Life Of Bryan — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 17:55:00 +0000

And soon the birth defect rates of Gulf seafood will become a point of partisan contention in the US.