[Lamplighter]

Originally Posted by Happy Monkey

Plus, this spill lasted three months, and the press gets bored quicker, so the dead pelicans only got a few days. Also, BP used dispersants to turn visibly-bird-coating oil into undersea poison. Most dead animals will be out of the way at the bottom of the ocean. Gulf seafood will be returning it to us slowly for the forseeable future.

But I never liked seafood, so I'm good! If any Gulf seafood gets to me, it will have to be indirectly, through several levels of processing.

The oil just makes the oysters more slippery so they go down easier.