Louisiana Seafood

Louisiana state environmental officials are saying that seafood from Lake Pontchartrain is okay to eat.

Hmmm, weren't we bombarded just a week or so ago with information regarding the highest concentration of human fecal matter ever recorded in free standing water being in the flood waters covering parts of New Orleans? Weren't those waters pumped out of the lower parts of the city? You know where those waters were pumped to...Lake Pontchartrain. And this is before we even begin to consider the toxic chemicals that became part of the flood due to storage in homes and industrial sites that were under water for an extended period.

Those state officials are advising people not to eat oysters from the Lake. I would say that any fish or shellfish from that region needs to be off your diet for awhile, possibly years. Think about it. Its the circle of life. Oysters are one of the things at the bottom of the food chain. They and their ilk get eaten by other creatures in the water. You couldn't pay me enough to eat a Louisiana catfish caught out of Pontchartrain.

We'll see.

Don't be the guinea pig for this experiment in toxicological foodstuffs.