Fishermen Visit Obama’s Gulf Vacation With Concerns About Seafood Safety w/ Kindra Arnesen Part Two
Part Two
“On Sunday, August 15th, fishing families from across the Gulf Cost will gather in Panama City Beach, Florida, with a message for President Obama: The Gulf of Mexico is still infused with oil and dispersants from the BP disaster, threatening marine life, livelihoods, and the health of the American people.”
“Fishermen do not want to lose our credibility or deliver contaminated seafood to market and make people sick.” – Kathy Birren
“While President Obama and state officials claim that the Gulf is ‘open for business,’ these fishermen say the spraying of dispersants in the Gulf of Mexico is ongoing and they’re concerned that seafood pulled from impacted waters is unsafe for eating.”
“The tissue testing of this seafood is inadequate and testing for the toxic dispersants is non-existent.” – Tracy Kuhns, Louisiana Bayoukeeper
“I think it is crucial for the public to be made aware of the concerns of the commercial fishermen. And if a commercial fisherman who makes his living off of those products doesn’t want to deliver them to the public, the public needs to know why.” – Chris Bryant, Commercial Fisherman
Duration : 0:14:46
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BP Oil Spill: Is The Seafood Really Safe? NRDC’S Gina Solomon: Where’s the Testing?
Doctors, researchers, scientists and citizens, like Dr. Solomon, are waging a silent battle against government agencies that are failing to fulfill their own organizational directives. As Project Gulf Impact gathers more firsthand accounts of how the Gulf of Mexico is being dangerously neglected, the situation in the Gulf grows worse. With new reports of oil washing onto shore and into the bayou, the numbers of affected life are increasing, not dropping. Several of our interviews have left us asking, why is organized, decisive action not being taken?
More information can be found in Dr. Solomon’s recent blog entries, linked below:
“Gulf Shrimp Testing: Is a Dozen Samples in 5000 Square Miles Enough to Reassure You?”
http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/gsolomon/gulf_shrimp_testing_still_not.html
And “Six Months, Five Shrimp, and One Nasty Mess: Health & Seafood Safety Concerns from BP Spill Still Linger in Gulf Today”
Here: http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/gsolomon/six_months_five_shrimp_and_one.html
Where she writes, “…the Federal government reopened 2,927 square miles of the Gulf to fishing and shrimping, just South of the Mississippi Delta. The Feds confirmed that the area was safe for shrimping by performing a “sniff test” for oil odors on five shrimp samples. They confirmed the sniff test with three composite samples of shrimp sent for chemical testing from an approximately 1,000 square mile area. No information was provided to the public on the size or location of the shrimping grounds or why so few chemical analyses were performed. This does not seem sufficient to assess the safety of the seafood coming out of the Gulf right now.”
Transcript of introduction:
“The seafood testing so far has been so frustrating because it has been so, really unscientific. It’s not that hard to do a basic seafood testing program. You go out and you figure out how many samples you need in order to have adequate statistical power to pick up a problem if it’s really out there, and then you go out and you do it. But what’s happening right now is this sort of sporadic, willy-nilly re-openings by different agencies, by state and federal government agencies, sometimes on the basis of really almost no testing results.”
Project Gulf Impact
www.projectgulfimpact.org
Duration : 0:4:43
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Private chemical analysis study disputes FDA claims that Gulf seafood is safe to eat
“I got the half shrimp po-boy and the gumbo,” said Sam Raleigh of Ocean Springs.
“I got crab po-boy and gumbo,” said Jennifer Adams of Biloxi.
Seafood favorites drew a large lunch crowd to Bruno’s Cafe Wednesday. That’s the same day Boston Chemical Data Corporation posted a study that raised questions about the presence of dispersants in Gulf seafood.
The company was hired by the United Commercial Fishermen’s Association. When we told some customers about a study, most of them said they weren’t worried at all about the safety of the shrimp and crab they were consuming.
“I believe it’s safe,” said Adams. “I think that if it wasn’t, we would know about it, or the FDA would tell us.”
“There’s absolutely no hesitation whatsoever on my part eating seafood out of the Gulf,” said Raleigh. “We’re getting ready to have an anniversary party coming up here in a couple of weeks, and we’re going to have a shrimp boil.”
Chris Soldo co-owns the Biloxi restaurant. When asked how much of his seafood comes from the Gulf, he responded, “Every bit of it.”
He continues to offer daily seafood specials, but Soldo said sales of seafood dishes have dropped since the oil spill. So he’s putting more barbecue meats on the menu.
“People are skeptical of the product right now, and right now, it’s as safe as you ever had. It’s unbelievable how it’s controlled and regulated,” said Soldo.
Several customers at the Quality Seafood market next door agreed, saying they trust the government’s findings.
“I just go with our inspectors, and they would not let it out if it wasn’t good for the public to eat,” said Margaret Woodall of Biloxi.
“I actually have a student that’s heading back to Alaska tomorrow. And he’s going to come down and buy seafood and have it packaged to ship back to Alaska. He’s going to take some Gulf Coast seafood with him,” said Raleigh.
The Department of Marine Resources, along with other state and federal agencies continue to stress, that Gulf seafood is safe to eat.
Duration : 0:2:35
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Fishermen Visit Obama’s Gulf Vacation With Concerns About Seafood Safety w/ Kindra Arnesen Part One
Part One
“On Sunday, August 15th, fishing families from across the Gulf Cost will gather in Panama City Beach, Florida, with a message for President Obama: The Gulf of Mexico is still infused with oil and dispersants from the BP disaster, threatening marine life, livelihoods, and the health of the American people.”
“Fishermen do not want to lose our credibility or deliver contaminated seafood to market and make people sick.” – Kathy Birren
“While President Obama and state officials claim that the Gulf is ‘open for business,’ these fishermen say the spraying of dispersants in the Gulf of Mexico is ongoing and they’re concerned that seafood pulled from impacted waters is unsafe for eating.”
“The tissue testing of this seafood is inadequate and testing for the toxic dispersants is non-existent.” – Tracy Kuhns, Louisiana Bayoukeeper
“I think it is crucial for the public to be made aware of the concerns of the commercial fishermen. And if a commercial fisherman who makes his living off of those products doesn’t want to deliver them to the public, the public needs to know why.” – Chris Bryant, Commercial Fisherman
Filmed by Gavin Garrison and Heather Rally
Duration : 0:13:44
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BP’S LEAKING by TomV
Janet said we were all doing BP songs so this is mine. I wrote it this morning and threw it together so it is what is. I didn’t listen to anyone else’s BP song except for Janet’s so if I snagged a phrase or a word,….it was completely innocent and unintentional. We’re kinda having fun with this from a songwriting standpoint but it is not funny in the least as a global ecological, economical or social issue. This is pretty much bad ya’ll.
BP’S LEAKING tomvband 6-5-10
WELL, BP OIL DRILLED A WELL, AT THE BOTTOM OF THE OCEAN
GONNA FIND SOME BLACK GOLD, THAT’S WHAT THEY WERE HOPIN’
NO WORRIES, IT’S ALL GOOD, EVERYTHING WENT JUST LIKE IT SHOULD
DRILLING THAT WELL WAS BOLD,………… THEY HIT THE MOTHER LOAD, SO
LET’S RAISE THOSE PRICES BOYS,…….HOLD ON, BP’S LEAKING,…
BP OIL IS LEAKING ………….FROM THE OCEAN FLOOR
NO IDEA WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT , …..NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE,….TRIED
LMRP, TRIED TOP KILL CAP,…………BETTER PULL A RABBIT OUT OF THAT HAT
HAVE IT FIXED BY LABOR DAY……………AT LEAST THAT’S WHAT THEY SAY
BUT, LET’S TAKE A LOOK AT THE SCORE…………,…WHILE BP’S LEAKING
HAVE YOU LOST YOUR JOB, WAS YOUR BUSINESS CLOSED,…DO YOU
UNDERSTAND WE’VE BEEN PUMPED AND HOSED
…….OIL FLOATING TO SHORE, ………………..GONNA BE A WHOLE LOT MORE
NO SWIMMING IN THE OCEAN FOR SURE, BUY A 40 WEIGHT SEAFOOD DINNER FOR FOUR
DON’T BUY YOUR GAS AT BP NO MORE…………. OH NO……, BP’S LEAKING,…
THERE’S FINGER POINTING, FRUSTRATION AND FEAR,
MOTHER NATURE’S WEARING OIL FOR MANY A YEAR
WHO’S GONNA PAY TO CLEAN UP THE MESS, C’MON,,,YOU GET ONE GUESS
DON’T BELIEVE ANYTHING YOU’RE TOLD, …….EVERYTHING’S BASED ON GOLD
ONLY ONE THING YOU CAN HOLD,……………….BP’S LEAKING…..
BP OIL IS LEAKING ………….FROM THE OCEAN FLOOR
NO IDEA WHAT TO DO, …..NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE,….TRIED
LMRP, TRIED TOP KILL CAP,…………HELL, PULL A RABBIT OUT OF A HAT
GONNA HAVE IT FIXED BY LABOR DAY……………AT LEAST THAT’S WHAT THEY SAY
BUT, LET’S TAKE A LOOK AT THE SCORE…………,…BP’S LEAKING
HAVE YOU LOST YOUR JOB, WAS YOUR BUSINESS CLOSED,….DO YOU
UNDERSTAND WE’VE BEEN PUMPED AND HOSED
……. OIL FLOATING TO SHORE, …………….GONNA BE A WHOLE LOT MORE
NO SWIMMING IN THE OCEAN FOR SURE, BUY A 40 WEIGHT SEAFOOD DINNER FOR FOUR
DON’T BUY YOUR GAS AT BP NO MORE………….BP’S LEAKING…………
WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR,…………………..FIND ANOTHER CONVENIENCE STORE, AND
DON’T BUY YOUR GAS AT BP NO MORE………….BP’S LEAKING…………
Duration : 0:3:32
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Duration : 0:4:33
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