State officials in Alabama have taken action, and other states need to take action to keep dangerous seafood from the Gulf off the dinner tables of Americans.
Stories of overfishing and toxic contamination put consumers in a state of confusion and fear at the seafood counter. But there are healthy and sustainable options.
Outside scientists, eager to perform independent evaluations of the government's findings, complain the information released contains far too many unknown variables.
Virginia Sole-Smith, The Progressive. May 28, 2010.
The squid in stores in the United States is often processed in horrendous conditions in Mexico, such as the Santa Rosalia factory in Baja California Sur.
Check out this scorecard from Greenpeace that gives major chain supermarkets a ranking for how well they score in terms of supplying sustainably-sourced seafood.
Still working to overcome the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, Mississippi Delta communities are again bracing for an unthinkable environmental disaster.