My favorite dinner used to be a cold beer and chilled Gulf shrimp with cocktail sauce. My favorite place to eat this dish used to be Florida, preferably Naples or Key West. I no longer drink alcohol and now it seems I will no longer eat Gulf Shrimp.
Remember the BP Macondo Well/
Deepwater Horizon oil platform explosion that occurred two years ago this week? It is the largest accidental marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry.
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The oil gushed into the Gulf for three months, spilling about 5 million barrels of oil into the blue waters of the Gulf, and
still seeps today. Now that's got to affect the marine life, wouldn't you think? Despite assurances that it wouldn't? Of course.
Shrimp in particular are first indicators of ecosystem shift. In other words, if something bad is happening, it'll show up in the shrimp first.
Gulf shrimp this season are showing up eyeless, with tumors, deformed and toxic. Read
more here and
here. With photos. Pass the tofu, please.
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