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First Horse(meat) Trading, Now 59% Of "Tuna" Sold In The U.S. Isn’t Tuna

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Submitted by Michael Krieger of Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,

 

New Study Shows 59% of “Tuna” Sold in the U.S. Isn’t Tuna

 

 

This is just the latest revelation in the stealth inflation and food fraud theme I have written about frequently in recent months.  The non-profit group Oceana took samples of 1,215 fish sold in the U.S. and genetic tests found that that 59% of those labeled tuna were mislabeled.

 

It seems that “white tuna” should be avoided in particular as “84% of fish samples labeled “white tuna” were actually escolar, a fish that can cause prolonged, uncontrollable, oily anal leakage.”

 

Oh and if you live in my hometown of New York City, you should pay particular attention:

Big Apple has big problem with seafood fraud:  94 percent of tuna and more than three quarters of sushi samples in New York City mislabeled.

 

Of the 142 fish samples collected in New York, 39 percent were mislabeled. New York City led the nation with the highest occurrence of mislabeled salmon as well as the highest amount of fraud among salmon collected from grocery stores and restaurants.

The full report from Oceana can be found here.

Bon appétit!

 

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Sat, 03/02/2013 - 23:17 | 3294713 robertocarlos
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Is canned smoked mackeral made in Canada? safe to eat?

Sun, 03/03/2013 - 03:32 | 3294948 G-R-U-N-T
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"Is canned smoked mackeral made in Canada? safe to eat?"

My buddy, who now lives in Canada, was sharing that he heard on the news that mackerel from a can can cause penile discharge resembling clap.  

Hope this helps...


Sun, 03/03/2013 - 08:56 | 3295089 TBT or not TBT
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Mine looks like pearlized hand soap, mackerel or no.

Sun, 03/03/2013 - 12:55 | 3295454 CPL
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It's packed in oil, like crude now.

Nope.  That oil spill in the Gulf hasn't been helpful in any fish stocks.  The entire gulf region is the baby fish incubator for the Atlantic.

The Mackeral date you are looking for that is safe is prior to that oil spill.

Sat, 03/02/2013 - 23:28 | 3294728 robertocarlos
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People should know you can't produce a good burger patty or a frozen fish stick for 50 cents.

Sat, 03/02/2013 - 23:30 | 3294729 robertocarlos
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DP. On the other hand the kippers I was looking at were $1.48 a can. Made in Canada. It costs $1.50 to go to the washroom. How do companies make any profits?

Sat, 03/02/2013 - 23:29 | 3294731 Bingfa
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And this whole thing surprises everybody how?

The whole world is a cesspool, top to bottom

              Just plain ole' honky tonk, in your face GREED.

Sun, 03/03/2013 - 03:40 | 3294954 G-R-U-N-T
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Yeah, we're filthy dirty creatures, so much so, that envirostatists are taxing/criminalizing the air we exhale. Soon it will be a crime to exist!

Sat, 03/02/2013 - 23:31 | 3294733 22winmag
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...and this level of food fraud was occuring before SEQUESTRATION.

Sun, 03/03/2013 - 09:47 | 3294777 MFLTucson
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Delete

Sun, 03/03/2013 - 00:26 | 3294791 IridiumRebel
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All of the bars buy bulk liquor like Georgi Vodka, McCormick, Arrow and such and fill the bottles with it and you think you're getting Grey Goose or Stoli....bullshit. Trust me. Go and ask them to open the bottle at the table! Piss them off....they probably do not even have the real there.

Sun, 03/03/2013 - 12:46 | 3295437 Intoxicologist
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I can attest to the fact that doesn't happen where I work.

Sun, 03/03/2013 - 00:30 | 3294796 Blue Horshoe Lo...
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I ate some fake tuna from Columbia.   They call it Pablo Escolar!

Sun, 03/03/2013 - 00:33 | 3294798 Kirk2NCC1701
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Chilean Sea Bass used to taste amazing 10 years ago.  Every damn rest. in the US offered it after a while.  Now its takes sucks.  Suspect it's been over-fished into oblivion and we're getting the farmed stuff.  Simon's expats need to start a sustainable fish farms offshore (low density fish pop).

Sun, 03/03/2013 - 00:50 | 3294818 IrritableBowels
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HOW CAN YOU HAVE ANY PUDDING IF YOU DON'T EAT YOUR TUNA?!?

Sun, 03/03/2013 - 00:54 | 3294823 Theos
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So where are the FUCKING NAMES OF THE RESTAURNTS WHERE THE SAMPLES CAME FROM?

 

Oh wait, if you say, you wont be able to write more papers about it. Fuck you.

Sun, 03/03/2013 - 01:01 | 3294833 Theos
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Our government has a responsibility to provide more information about the fish sold in the U.S., as seafood fraud harms not only consumers’ wallets, but also every honest vendor and fisherman cheated in the process--to say nothing of the health of our oceans. 

 

Or you have the responsibility to shame those who mislabel if youre so butthurt about it.

 

Fuck you, again.

Sun, 03/03/2013 - 01:18 | 3294853 jim249
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Oily anal leakage, the gays must love this stuff!

Sun, 03/03/2013 - 01:47 | 3294874 Stud Duck
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Jim, Got a good giggle on that comment!!

Sun, 03/03/2013 - 09:00 | 3295094 TBT or not TBT
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Finally the obvious joke about the upside on this.

Sun, 03/03/2013 - 01:36 | 3294870 resurger
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Am turning Hindu, i will eat a veggie stuff not every tuesday but every mother fucking day.

Sun, 03/03/2013 - 01:43 | 3294873 Spaceman Spiff
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I see your horsemeat tacos and other fish tuna and I raise you Pig Anus Calamari....

 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/16/imitation-calamari-sliced-pig-r...

 

Sign of Inflation.... naaaawwww.

Sun, 03/03/2013 - 01:48 | 3294875 HankPaulson
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I have oily anal leakage anyway, so the escolar thing doesn't really bother me.

Sun, 03/03/2013 - 08:31 | 3295004 CaptainSpaulding
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It bothers me. My underwear has profound Hershey spurts that are very difficult to remove.

Sun, 03/03/2013 - 01:59 | 3294884 Stud Duck
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That it, I am starting a catfish and crawdad farm. I can at least claim some semblence of purity compared to the food supply system that this corporate culture has evolved into!

Got the location, got the acess to the equipment, water supply,

I wonder when CNN is going to jumpt on this, oh that right Charlie Sheen just got drunk again and the Kardashians are in another cat fight.

We are so screwed ! 

Sun, 03/03/2013 - 02:16 | 3294892 bunnyswanson
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Eat Kosher....I think they are onto something.

Sun, 03/03/2013 - 02:26 | 3294904 dark pools of soros
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America been mislabeled too

Sun, 03/03/2013 - 09:03 | 3295096 TBT or not TBT
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Amerigo Vespucci! What did he add exactly? Tell it bro.

Sun, 03/03/2013 - 02:32 | 3294909 Bobportlandor
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"Oily anal leakage"

Oh thank God, I thought it was Radiation sickness.

Sun, 03/03/2013 - 08:46 | 3295078 Whats that smell
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We have a cure for that:

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_R._Brinkley

Sun, 03/03/2013 - 03:04 | 3294932 Lord Of Finance
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I am so glad that I do my own fishing. This story is f#cked up.

 

Note to self:

 

         Take hunting lessons ASAP.

 

                   With Ted Nugent!!

Sun, 03/03/2013 - 11:30 | 3295294 hardcleareye
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How about Dick Cheney?

Sun, 03/03/2013 - 13:07 | 3295479 Lord Of Finance
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Only if Dick does not have any alcohol before our lesson!

 

I want to learn how to take a shot at a buck, not take a buck shot to the face:D

Sun, 03/03/2013 - 03:45 | 3294960 radicall
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I think it is called Hedonic Adjustment </sarc>

Sun, 03/03/2013 - 05:22 | 3294979 Esculent 69
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For those of you out there who believe mercury in fish will kill you, just have a gander at some data that proves how stupid and gulible people are and will believe anything like man made global warming or mercury in fish will kill you. If that's true then why is not all of Hawaii, Japan, and all of SE Asia dead from eating fish. IDIOTS!!!!!!!!!!!

Bon Appetite

 

http://www.wpcouncil.org/councilmtgs/145th/Selenium_Poster_final.pdf

Sun, 03/03/2013 - 09:06 | 3295104 TBT or not TBT
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Anyone got data on mercury content of sea water and or fish over the last few centuries? One complaint about coal burning, above and beyond the retarded ropaganda about CO2, is the quantity f mercury liberated. Don't know what to think there.

Sun, 03/03/2013 - 12:31 | 3295405 Joe A
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People died and became severly sick in Japan after eating fish and shell fish contaminated with mercury after industrial wastewater containing methylmercury was released. It has become known as the Minamata disease named after the town where it first happened.

This contamination happened over a span of 4 decades. The mercury bioaccumulated in the foodchain but I don't know what the levels of mercury were (or selenium for that matter). So yes, people died from mercury poisoning in fish but you need to research it more yourself to find out what the level of contamination was. Interesting to see is that Japan has a history of covering up scandals and that it took a really long time before responsibility was admitted and victims compensated. Fukushima anyone?

Sun, 03/03/2013 - 16:14 | 3295818 Esculent 69
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Anyone will get sick from eating fish if contaminated with wastewater that has methylmercury, duhhhh. 

And Fukushima anyone? How about the guy who went into the reactor thinking he was going to die like spock from star trek?

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/i-am-one-of-the-fukushima-f...

The chart along with the science shows that as long as the selinium levels are the same or more then the mercury levels you are fine. The blue levels on the chart show how much more selinium is present in fish then mercury.

The science shows that mercury as well as selinium are naturally present in fish.  People, especially pregnant women, worry about eating too much fish because of the mercury in fish is some how going to kill or underdevelope their child.  The selinium in naturally present in the fish makes it so that the mercury is not absorbed into your body. It is a natural balance that is not understood by enough people who grew up in a public education system and don't under stand biology, science, ECONOMICS (cough, cough)

Sun, 03/03/2013 - 16:41 | 3295875 Joe A
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Well, you said that people were not dying from mercury in fish. Of course, it is the dose that matters. If this selenium story of yours is true -and why not- then any natural occurring level of selenium probably wouldn't have saved any of these victims. But mercury in any form in any dose in a human body is dangerous.

For updates on situation in Fukushima see http://enenews.com/

Sun, 03/03/2013 - 17:03 | 3295908 Esculent 69
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Science will tell you that as long as the levels of selinium outway the levels of mercury then you are fine. I'm not refering to things like nuclear disaster brought on by a tsunami caused by an earthquake.  I'm refering to the fact that people are scared to eat fish because of the mercury that fish have naturally.

But they are unaware that fish also have selinium that is naturally present which offsets the natural levels of mercury thereby making safe to eat fish.

 If the fish is coming from some toxic cesspool then yes you have a point. However the ocean deals with these problems regardless. Just like the bacteria that eat oil that seeps up from the ocean floor. even when large spills occur the bacteria still do their job in cleaning up the natural oil that naturally seeps into the water. 

Just like the ocean is the largest cink for CO2. If you look at the levels of CO2 that the oceans dispose and recycle into the mantel and back out via volcanoes and other natural effects we humans contribute a speck compared to what is absorbed and recycled........naturally. 

Sun, 03/03/2013 - 07:21 | 3295035 etresoi
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It is a well known fact that fish wholesale and processing on both coasts of the US are organized crime fiefdoms.  Well known, by the fact that several anthoropological studies done by PhD. candidates have documented  the culture of crime in the fish business.

Anthropologist simply study; they are trained not to get involved with the subjects of their study.  Of course, your FDA acts as if it were anthropology central, or none of them can read.

I, also, know this from personal experience.  Many decades ago, I owned a fish processing plant in San Pedro, CA.  Whenever a fish business reaches a certain size, the gumbas come and make an offer you can not refuse.  FBI could not care.  the Sherrif department's organized crime task force was very interested, but were called of by the fibbies.  I found an other line of work.

 

 

Sun, 03/03/2013 - 07:57 | 3295051 Sandmann
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I thought it it was FRESH and PERISHABLE it was usually Mob-controlled whether Fish, Vegetables, Meat or Garbage.

Mon, 03/04/2013 - 02:55 | 3297066 etresoi
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Perhaps, but I can only write, on that which I have knowledge

Sun, 03/03/2013 - 08:48 | 3295079 Joe A
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Consumers have more power than they think. Don't like a product or a products is not safe or not honest? Boycott it. Consumers vote with their wallet.

Sun, 03/03/2013 - 10:09 | 3295177 yellowsub
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Did you realize that the general consumers don't care about this or anything for that matter?

Sun, 03/03/2013 - 10:34 | 3295224 Joe A
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You are right. Many sheep don't care. But the market for organic food in Europe for instance has been steadily growing even despite the economic crisis. It is becoming mainstream. The horsemeat scandal dropped sales of beef products (or claiming to be beef products) with 40 to 60%. It ironically also led to increased curiosity with consumers into horsemeat from reputable butchers. These kind of food scandals increase attention in the wider public into food safety. That happened with mad cow disease and Q-fever. Unfortunately it then fades agains because it gets out of the news, life goes on and people get more interested in who the next Idol will be.

Attention for matters such as these are part of what Dowens call "issue attention cycle" and can lead to opening and using of windows of opportunity to address these matters.

Sun, 03/03/2013 - 18:24 | 3296036 yellowsub
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Americans != Europeans

Considering the concept of fast food originated in the US it's safe to say people will value convenience and speed over health plus it costs much cheaper. 

This is the life style of Americans are conditioned to...  

Sun, 03/03/2013 - 09:03 | 3295098 What is The Hedge
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Did I miss something here?

Why isn't the title of the article.......... 100% of Sea Bass Found to be Mislabeled?

Sun, 03/03/2013 - 09:12 | 3295107 Son of Loki
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Sushi "mislabeled" 100% of the time in Austin and 87% of the time in SoCal. But I thought thhose "free spirit" areas were more honest, hippie lov'n places?

Funny, that.

 

BTW, why not just say "Fraud" instead of "Mislabeled."

Sun, 03/03/2013 - 09:17 | 3295111 Brokenarrow
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Tonight, some sucker will walk into a "fashionable" sushi spot ans pay $200 for dinner for two. The beautiful people are there. Their eating white enhanced rice, poor quality fish, some mice infested soup, and a fortune cookie. This will go on the Visa and be paid off over a couple months. The sucker will feel content and "rich" in America. Btw: the restaurant is owned by some immigrants from Asia that arrived two years-ago.

Sun, 03/03/2013 - 09:49 | 3295148 grunk
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"... prolonged, uncontrollable, oily anal leakage.”

As opposed to prolonged controllable oily anal leakage.

In some ways that is even more disturbing.

Sun, 03/03/2013 - 09:53 | 3295152 lindaamick
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Big city folk know so much less about food than rural folk.

After having been a city dweller for many years and then moving to a more rural area, I found that even the feed stores were experts in GMO grains. 

Turns out there are periodic die-offs of farm animals ingesting certain GMO grain versions so they advertise the variety of grains to be purchased as animal feed.

City people rarely question food sources in grocery or restaurants so GMO crops go undetected...until they cause some health issue that is never tied back to the source.

Sun, 03/03/2013 - 12:14 | 3295380 the grateful un...
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i guess you could still use that GMO corn for ethanol, oh wait you still have to breathe the fumes

Sun, 03/03/2013 - 10:14 | 3295183 yellowsub
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Just goes to show you all these regulations and laws are meaningless in protecting the consumers...  

It's ridiculous to be denial that it can't happen here because it has been happening here!

Sun, 03/03/2013 - 10:37 | 3295231 shovelhead
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I knew a guy who was a lab tech for Starkist and he said the regulations for pet food were far stricter than for human consumption.

Pets can't read lables, I guess.

Sun, 03/03/2013 - 11:00 | 3295248 Gyoza Mimi
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The unfortunate part about the study is missing information about who mislabeled products. A few fraud lawsuits will put a very quick end to such practice.

Sun, 03/03/2013 - 11:13 | 3295263 Dewey Cheatum Howe
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Keep it greasy so it goes down easy.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ugUGPDjx_k

Sun, 03/03/2013 - 11:25 | 3295280 Abraham Snake
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Zero Hedge reminds me of Upton Sinclair's 'The Jungle' where a report on unsafe food causes a large reaction from the reading public yet the real story, that predatory lending, loans designed to fail, rip families to shreds.

So do we not care about gullible, ill informed families that become ensnared by predatory lenders? Apparently, we don't much care. I don't see much ranting outrage anyway, but tongue twisters like -oily anal leakage-, boy, that really gets them screeching.

Sun, 03/03/2013 - 12:09 | 3295369 _ConanTheLibert...
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Well, since the elites are ass-raping us, the ass oil is actually helpful.

Fri, 03/08/2013 - 22:34 | 3314044 Go Tribe
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The dots connected. Thank you.

Sun, 03/03/2013 - 12:24 | 3295402 the grateful un...
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whenever i see a study like this i wonder, who paid for it, and what are their motives. not sure but in this case it is probably the fish farming industry, which can guarantee their DNA, although what the fish are being fed is another issue. the entire coast of CA is one big large sewage processing plant (they routinely extend the pipe which carries untreated sewage (not) far (enough) out to sea. surfing has become the most unhealthy non-occupation in the state. fish farming is the future of the fishing business.

Sun, 03/03/2013 - 12:41 | 3295426 Jena
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It's really sad.  There used to be a couple of great places to surf that I considered safe north of Santa Barbara.   Microbial testing (such as they are) tended to show those beaches as being clean, and we never encountered any problems or knew any locals who did.  Then Fukushima happened. 

We live inland and haven't gone surfing since but I do miss it terribly.

Sun, 03/03/2013 - 15:10 | 3295695 rtalcott
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mislabelled fish?  here?....Horsefeathers!

Sun, 03/03/2013 - 16:38 | 3295865 Esculent 69
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BTW- Oceana is an environmental wacko group who believe in man made global warming and is in full agreement with the UN who are also a bunch of frauds with the IPCC.  Oceana parrots the EPA line about mercury, over fishing saving the dolphins, whales, coral reefs, blah blah blah. Notice it is about mislabeling and not fraud of calling escolar salmon. Its about stealth INFLATION by mislabeling to raise the price rather then fraudulently calling escolar salmon or snapper or whatever. BTW, Ted "The oceans are going to be too toxice for us to ever use again" Danson is a supporter of the group. Danson predictied the destruction of the ocean in the 80's and low and behold there are still fish there. Species go extinct and we are no exception. There is more life in the ocean than anything on land. And one last parting shot. There is more toxic chemicals that spew up from the bottom of the ocean floor from vents and seismic activity that dwarf anything humans have produced in our lifetimes. 

Its Science Bitchezzzz

Sun, 03/03/2013 - 16:24 | 3295834 headless blogger
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Does the "oily anal leakage" smell like tuna fish or like tuna-mixed poop?

Sun, 03/03/2013 - 16:54 | 3295893 Nassim
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Mislabelling is actually theft. I do wish you would use the correct terminology!

Sun, 03/03/2013 - 17:06 | 3295914 Esculent 69
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Inflation is theft. 

There fixed it for you :-b

Sun, 03/03/2013 - 16:57 | 3295898 mt paul
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fiat food...

Sun, 03/03/2013 - 18:23 | 3296034 ReligiousAtheist1
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I dont even know whats real anymore

Mon, 03/04/2013 - 11:23 | 3297704 taketheredpill
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DNA Testing at University of Guelph.

 

GO MOO U !!!!

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