Yes, our oceans are getting sicker and sicker.

Joy I was thinking of you this morning so I came here to write a message to you. Just wanted to let you know I have not forgotten you and appreciated your friendship. I hope you, your son and little dog have a wonderful Christmas and a Happy New Year

Thanks Tango.

Joy, carry hope inside you like an unborn baby killer whale, eh?

http://7online.com/pets/baby-killer-whale-born-at-seaworld-san-diego/420149/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1br9JCljjE


also from Joy

* I look forward to a day in which we can feed our however-many billion people on "organic food grown without artificial fertilizer or pesticides". Obviously, today this is impossible. I'm not interested in arguing about this. Imagine yourself as a child dying in a poor nation from hunger caused by lack of agricultural chemicals -- and knowing that rich-nation faddists were paying extra money for "organic food".

During a fifty-minute pathology lecture, maybe 1000-1500 people worldwide die as the direct or indirect result of malnutrition. A low estimate from before the impact of the "commodities boom" / "world food price crisis" began to be felt fully around the world (BMJ 336: 912, April 26 2008) reported "malnutrition kills about 3.5 million mothers and children under 5 years old each year, and this figure could rise", and estimating that 178 million children are sufficiently undernourished at any one time to have their growth stunted. Your lecturer believes this last number is low. Even in oil-rich Libya, one child in four is obviously growth-stunted (Pub. Health Nutr. 12: 1141, 2009). The fact that malnutrition, poverty, and being unproductive is a vicious cycle is obvious to any thinking person and we are reminded of this in Ped. Clin. N.A. 57: 1409, 2010. The Food and Agriculture Organization's 2004 pronouncement that 5 million children die every year (one every five seconds) from hunger is probably about right (see also Lancet 371: 290, 2008), but it misses the bigger picture. More subtle, early undernutrition leads to permanent underdevelopment of the brain, and diminished intellectual ability (Nutrition 16: 1056, 2000, many more).



http://www.pathguy.com/lectures/nutr.htm