25 June 2010: Wake Up, Little Sushi!

Scientists at Ocean Alliance, a research and conservation group, recently released a report which shows that “sperm whales feeding even in the most remote reaches of Earth’s oceans have built up stunningly high levels of toxic and heavy metals  like cadmium, aluminum, chromium, lead, silver, mercury and titanium.”  Industry dumps these things into the oceans, the fish are contaminated, the whales eat the fish, and we’re eating the same things the whales are eating, perhaps eating the whales as well while we’re at it.  Ahhh, what waiters in fancy restaurants don’t tell us when we’re ordering “the catch of the day,” or when we’re being poisoned slowly at our favorite sushi bar.  Tell your kids there’s no point trying to find Nemo or the little mermaid. They’re dead.  And we will be, too, if we don’t wake up to what goes on in “the water planet.”  BP isn’t the only culprit here.