This is more of a rant, more a reaction to people pouting about their loss, personally, due to the volcano of oil currently blasting crude into the gulf.
Their loss? They won't get to demand that sea life from the gulf be killed and served to them to eat.
From CNN.com: "Does the oil spill put seafood restaurants at risk?":
The "single best bite of food" in Louisiana, according to Tommy Cvitanovich, is the charbroiled oyster soaked in butter, garlic and cheese. Then the tough little mollusk is grilled to a smoky perfection.
His two restaurants, both named Drago's, served 3 million of these delectable oysters last year.
Seriously?
Possibly the worst environmental disaster in history, and what keeps making headlines is people grousing that they won't be able to demand the deaths of gulf sea life for their gullets because the oil gusher might kill them off first?
This could be an environmental apocalypse. The worst-case scenario for the broken and leaking well gushing oil into the Gulf of Mexico would be the loss of the wellhead currently restricting the flow to 5,000 barrels -- or 210,000 gallons per day. If the wellhead is lost, oil could leave the well at a much greater rate, perhaps up to 150,000 barrels -- or more than 6 million gallons per day -- based on government data showing daily production at another deepwater Gulf well. By comparison, the Exxon Valdez spill was 11 million gallons total.
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I want to say something to these people: This huge frakking disaster is bigger than your whining about not being able to eat sea life. It is not about animals being "delectable," you frakking boneheads, it is about the possible death of the Gulf of Mexico and. possibly, worse. It is about 150,000 barrels a frakking day, and about the gulf currents carrying this around Florida and up the East Coast, and possibly then on across to the UK.
Think about something besides eating these creatures. Think about ecosystems in the process of being destroyed, and of livelihoods being lost irrevocably, and of economies crashing because we, as a species, are too damned stupid to do what we've known for more than 30 years what we needed to do: Get off our oil addiction.