USM Gulf Coast Research Laboratory, via The Associated PressSmall oil droplets are visible trapped inside the shell of an immature blue crab collected near Grand Isle by researchers from the University of Southern Mississippi and Tulane University.

There is oil in (some of) the Gulf’s seafood.  Crabs have oil in them. Last night ABC News ran a story about a fisherman in the Gulf who pulled up oiled shrimp.  This photo is from Nola.com‘s website yesterday, August 9th. If you want to believe President Obama and eat seafood that might have oil in it, that’s up to you, but it is clear that our government is worried more about the economy and jobs reports more than peoples’ health.  That means we all have to be better watchdogs for our own health.

There is also still a lot of oil in the Gulf, despite what the politicians insist is a magical situation with oil vanishing in 2-3 weeks. Here is a list of recent Gulf oil sightings.

Now that we can see that the government is not concerned with oil in the Gulf food chain, as pictured on the left, people need to get involved to end the use of oil, coal and other fossil fuels in favor of clean energy.  Our health depends on it. Crude oil has been linked to cancer. If that’s not enough reason to end our use of oil, I don’t know what would be. A temporary moratorium on deep-water oil drilling in the Gulf is not enough. It should be banned.

It’s sad but true:  The U.S. government is not particularly concerned about our health, despite the FDA and the EPA and various other departments.  In fact, for many years contaminated oil and waste has been dumped in peoples’ neighborhoods.  Usually, these are minority areas.  Can you believe it?  Only in America do officials dump coal ash waste and recent Gulf crude oil waste in poor or minority neighborhoods.  This is documented here and here.

The toll on the climate from oil spills and oil burning is enormous, but the health toll on people is also very high.

Below, two women in a recent video from the Center for American Progress discuss health issues and food safety issues below (after the break). You can decide for yourself if these people are being completely honest. (The Center for American Progress is, in some ways, an extension of the Obama administration). At the moment, I don’t believe that BP, the government, or the EPA have much credibility on the safety of the water in the Gulf. If we are to believe the EPA and Carol Browner, millions of barrels of oil just disappeared in a couple of weeks.  We are now seeing evidence to the contrary, and a lot of it, as fishermen and others document what they are witnessing in the Gulf water and marshes.   Also after the break, an article about the health dangers of oil and dispersants.  The two in the [...]