August 2009

  • Support the Recovery of Wild Salmon

    By sarajean on 8/30/09 2:17pm
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    If you’ve ever watched salmon spawn—okay, you probably have never actually sat by the water and passed the time watching salmon spawn, but you’ve probably seen them on TV or something—you know what hell these little fish already endure just to reproduce. Hell, if our moms and dads died just trying to get us fertilized, they’d be like, no way, I’m heading off to the East Australian Current with the turtle hippies; screw spawning.

    So it’s like adding insult to injury continuing on with Bush II’s federal plan for salmon in the Colombia and Snake Rivers—which was to pretty much sit and do nothing.

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  • Seine Salmon

    By lisala on 8/15/09 3:04pm
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    France's river Seine, which begins at the coast across from the English channel, near Atlantic SalmonAtlantic SalmonHonfleur and runs right on through Paris and past, was used as a dumping ground for centuries. The Seine around Paris was so polluted by human and animal waste in the middle ages that there were bawdy French rhymes about it. But elsewhere, outside of Paris, the Seine was teeming with life, and provided not only lesser fish for human consumption, but salmon, the king of fish. But that changed, as more and more industrial waste was dumped into the river, so that by 1995 only the more tolerant species—only four of those (specifically, eel, carp, bream and roach) were to be found.

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  • Lobster: It's What's for Dinner

    By lisala on 8/4/09 5:21pm
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    The thing I feared and wrote about in Lobster the New Bologna has come to pass.

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