I have some friends that need our help

[goliadmike]

This morning I received an email from a friend in the oyster industry. The FDA is planning on banning the sale of Gulf oysters for six months or more a year starting in 2011. This is something that could cripple the industry and put a lot of good hard working people out of business. Even though they are Saint fans, they don't deserve to have their livelihoods swept out from underneath them.

The FDA is concerned over a rare form of bacteria that comes from the oysters that cause roughly fifteen deaths a year.

Please take a look at the petition at this site http://www.saveourshellfish.org/oyster-petition.cfm and sign it if you agree with the oyster-men.

Thank you

GM

 

[YosemiteSam]

Do they know the secret hand shake?

Then no dice! :laugh2:

 

[big dog cowboy]

15? Are you kidding me?

 

[CF74]

The is just getting started, next thing you know it will be ****tail sauce and crackers..

 

[vta]

And if that weren't enough...

Sex Crazed Oysters Transmit Herpes
Posted on: August 8, 2008 6:07 PM, by ableiman

The French love their raw oysters. In fact, the French consume the most herpes, I mean oysters, per capita in the world; an average of 2kg! That's a lot of raw oyster.

Well the French were horrified to learn last week that their care-free raw oystering lifestyle had finally hit the rocks. 40 to 100 percent of oysters aged 12 to 18 months have died this summer in all but one of the regions breeding beds. After a few weeks of research, French scientists have determined that their oyster population is unhealthy because they have been too well fed, an irony that only French oysters were sophisticated enough to stumble upon.

Give it to me straight doc...

Basically the randy little guys have been devoting so much time and energy to growing their sexual organs, they ignored their immune systems. After the party was over, the young oysters found themselves with a scorching case of Oyster Herpesvirus type 1, or OsHV-1. Unfortunately for the oysters, this strain is fatal, rather than just uncomfortable and embarrassing.

Other factors such as toxic seaweed or another virus, Vibrio Splendidus, may also be contributing, and the French scientists say the investigation is ongoing