Where's the Gulf oil? In the food web, study says

[phantom power]

WASHINGTON (AP) -- 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 new study sheds light on two key questions about the aftermath of the 172 million-gallon spill in April: What happened to the oil that once covered the water's surface and will it work its way into the diets of Gulf marine life?

"Everybody is making a huge deal of where did the oil go," said chief study author William "Monty" Graham, a plankton expert at the Dauphin Island Sea Lab in Alabama. "It just became food."

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. Graham said the "eye-opening" speed of how the oil components moved through the ecosystem may affect the overall health of the Gulf.

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[HopeHoops]

1. Yet another reason to avoid seafood.:

:puke:

[jgraz]

2. It's not just seafood

A lot of refuse from the seafood industry is converted to industrial fertilizer. BP's oil is going to be plowed into our cornfields next spring.

[HopeHoops]

6. BINGO! - that's exactly what's going to happen, but Monsanto has a head start on BP by decades.

[CTD]

3. How is that any worse than what the factory farms feed their cows, pigs and chickens?

Seriously.

I don't think any of it is good for us, but making a comment like that about seafood when the other mass-produced "proteins" are much more vile is ignorant.

Sorry.

[truedelphi]

4. that is a good point.

It is the reason why I now lean along with Libetarians on demolishing a great many of the "safety agencies" that are flourishing with our monies.

They sure don't protect us (Wanna dig a deep oil well, and use unsafe practices. just contact your local Senator before making your request to MMS.)

With Monsanto at the helm, in the guise of Mike Taylor, our FDA harrasses the little people, and overlooks the huge scandals.

How much melanine does your kid's frozen milk confection contain?
As much as it needs to, in order to compete with goods from China.

[HopeHoops]

7. My "comment" was about the environmental factors impacting seafood, not the horrors we do directly.

Mass-produced (best way to phrase it) feed creatures endure nothing short of torture. It gets worse as far as human consumption is concerned after they are slaughtered, but the way they are treated is beyond disgusting.

[auntsue]

5. I used to think climate change would get us

But now I think we'll introduce so many toxins and hormones and other shit into our food that it will be incapable of sustaining us. This is because big money erases regulations and leads to greedy exploitation.