Would you eat this "cancerous" shrimp? The impact of the BP Oil spill lives on:

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Would you eat this "cancerous" shrimp? The impact of the BP Oil spill lives on:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLjand2xPEo





would you eat this "cancerous" shrimp?

 

[DrLeftover]

Question:

Was that cancer caused by oil from the spill, or by oil from natural seeps in the ocean floor?

As much as one half of the oil that enters the coastal environment comes from natural seeps of oil and natural gas. These geologic features are known to occur in clusters around the world, such as off the southern coast of California and in the Gulf of Mexico, but are still relatively unstudied. In recent years, advances in remote sensing have enabled more accurate detection and estimates of natural oil flows in the ocean.

http://www.whoi.edu/oil/natural-oil-seeps


MORE:

Crude oil and natural gas seeps naturally out of fissures in the ocean seabed and eroding sedimentary rock. These seeps are natural springs where liquid and gaseous hydrocarbons leak out of the ground (like springs that ooze oil and gas instead of water). Whereas freshwater springs are fed by underground pools of water, oil and gas seeps are fed by natural underground accumulations of oil and natural gas (see USGS illustration). Natural oil seeps are used in identifying potential petroleum reserves.

As pointed out by the National Research Council (NRC) of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, "natural oil seeps contribute the highest amount of oil to the marine environment, accounting for 46 per cent of the annual load to the world's oceans. -- Although they are entirely natural, these seeps significantly alter the nature of nearby marine environments. For this reason, they serve as natural laboratories where researchers can learn how marine organisms adapt over generations of chemical exposure. Seeps illustrate how dramatically animal and plant population levels can change with exposure to ocean petroleum".

NOAA describe a natural seepage area in California: "One of the best-known areas where this happens is Coal Oil Point along the California Coast near Santa Barbara. An estimated 2,000 to 3,000 gallons of crude oil is released naturally from the ocean bottom every day just a few miles offshore from this beach".

http://oils.gpa.unep.org/facts/natural-sources.htm

 

[Jazzy]

would you eat this "cancerous" shrimp?

Whatever caused this to happen, the answer is NO I would not eat the shrimp.

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

Have had seafood in the gulf coast many times since the spill. But would I eat that one right there? No.