Bon appétit, Mr. President. Uh, pardon me if I order something else?

[DFW]

I saw that President Obama, to make an obvious point, will be having seafood from the Gulf of Mexico
for his 49th birthday bash.

OK, fine by me. It'll earn him brownie points with the Gulf states. But considering recent events, I'd
say he's doing some economically distressed people in the Gulf States a favor, and one they might enjoy
for a short while at best. Ibsen would have understood.

Fish caught off the Gulf States have NOT been tested for all possible chemicals and carcinogens that
might well have been absorbed by the marine life there, so unless his "Gulf fish" were caught off the
coast of the Yucután, or some similarly remote part of the Gulf, I'll stick to fish caught elsewhere,
thanks all the same!

[provis99]

1. it is frozen seafood caught before the BP disaster?

Wouldn't surprise me if his handlers did this.

[mike r]

2. New BP-funded ad: Real men eat fish from the Gulf

[DFW]

3. I think that makes my car a real man

From some of the shrimp catches I have seen, they would do more good as lubrication for my car than as food for humans.

[sandnsea]

4. Well most food is full of chemicals and carcinogens

And the gulf wasn't pristine before. When my first husband was stationed there in '76 they warned us to stay out of the water. I never understood how it got so miraculously clean from that point in time.

But I'm not eating the shrimp for a while either, so I'm with you there.

[theoldman]

5. There is no perfectly safe sea food.

As a matter of fact, even the fish from our rivers and lakes have some contamination. You are not going to die from the sea food from the Gulf. You would have to eat contaminated food for years to have a bad effect. Hey, I am getting hungry.

[NYC_SKP]

6. Do people think that seafood was pristine BEFORE this event?

That the oceans weren't already poluted?

There was plenty of trouble before this massive failure, and more will inevitably come: http://journals.democraticunderground.com/NYC_SKP/14

Too polluted to eat?

It's a matter of degrees, is all.

[DFW]

8. I'm aware of what is out there in our oceans, but still

Stuff caught in the Gulf NOW? No thanks. Icelandic ocean perch or Hawaiian ono, it doesn't matter,
I'd take either one in a heartbeat before munching on Louisiana Gulf anything right now.

[CreekDog]

7. That's his choice but I'd like the same choice, however I don't really have it

because there isn't reliable information about where things were caught and when.

i'd like the opportunity to *not* eat Gulf shrimp or other seafood, but despite asking, there's very little verifiable info on this out there from restaurants.

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