Originally posted by Bashar TegI've had those.
best canned sardines ever
I like these...
Originally posted by Old Man Whirly!Yeah, I've had those too. Good snack, but I'd never have them as or with a meal.
I've had those.I like these...
More like a spur of the moment thing.
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Your Sardines Come With a Side of Microplastics
CSUF Graduate Student Studies How Pacific Marine Pollution Impacts Tonight’s Fish Dinner
September 01, 2021 08:00 ET
| Source: Cal State FullertonFULLERTON, Sept. 01, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- In a basement laboratory, Cal State Fullerton biology graduate student Chelsea Bowers dissects Pacific sardines and blends them into a creamy “shake.”
It won’t go well with a burger and fries, but her hope is that the concoction of sardine stomach and muscle tissues helps find solutions to international microplastic contamination of ocean life.
Bowers’ ongoing research studies how such marine pollution may be affecting Pacific sardines, an essential part of the oceanic food chain and a commercial food fish that ultimately leads to our dinner tables.
Her research, which aims to quantify ingested microplastics — the amount, size, and type — found in the sardines’ stomachs and muscle tissues, will help other scientists studying a growing and international microplastics problem.
A study by researchers from the Netherlands and New Zealand predicts that without proper handling or removal of already-accumulated plastic pollution, the world's microplastics problem could double in size by the year 2050. Irish researchers found that 73% of deepwater fish in the north Atlantic Ocean had eaten particles of microplastics, while a Harvard study estimated 14 million tons of microplastics exist on the whole ocean floor.
Fishing for Answers
Bowers’ preliminary research findings show microplastic contaminants in wild-caught sardines.
“I’m finding microplastics in the stomachs and muscle tissues of the sardines, which is what you hope you don’t find,” she relayed. “These findings ultimately could help build the foundation for future research concentrating on physiological pathways of assimilated microplastics in sardines and potentially other fishes.”
Bowers, who expects to finalize her study next year, started collecting sardine samples in September 2019. While the pandemic stalled her work, she is now back in the lab — following university COVID-19 safety protocols — to dissect the sardines and analyze tissue samples.
The Pacific sardine is found along a stretch of curved coastline known as the Southern California Bight winding from Point Conception, near Santa Barbara, south to the U.S.-Mexico border and seaward toward the Channel Islands.
Bowers is specifically looking at Pacific sardines caught off the coast of Long Beach. This blue-greenish sardine, which can grow more than a foot long, is commonly used for bait, as well as for animal and human consumption. The small fish is prey for other marine life, including seabirds, and is found in local coastal waters, especially between the spawning months of August through October.
“Pacific sardines are filter feeders that feed on a variety of plankton in the same size range as marine microplastics and are vulnerable to ingesting microplastics,” Bowers said. “More and more plastics are being degraded into our coastal waters as a result of contamination from river run-off and wastewater.”
Misty Paig-Tran, associate professor of biological science and Bowers’ research adviser, noted that microplastics are either manufactured directly, such as plastic beads in exfoliating scrubs and toothpaste, or are broken down from larger plastics like Styrofoam food containers, straws, bottles, caps, and other plastic litter discarded by humans.
“These may be virtually undetectable to the human eye in the water, but they can be quite harmful to marine life,” she said.
Seriously though, never understood this skittishness heads of state had against rioting.
The way I figure it, people need to live and shop where they protest. The best way to handle social unrest is to let them burn themselves out, and live with the consequences of burned down buildings and looting and such.
My theory is that once everything goes to pot, everyone will band together to rebuild society.
Originally posted by cdtmYou might want to look at Sri Lanka today to understand the "skittishness", or better yet France during the revolution or Jan 6 Washington.
Seriously though, never understood this skittishness heads of state had against rioting.The way I figure it, people need to live and shop where they protest. The best way to handle social unrest is to let them burn themselves out, and live with the consequences of burned down buildings and looting and such.
My theory is that once everything goes to pot, everyone will band together to rebuild society.
Originally posted by Old Man Whirly!
You might want to look at Sri Lanka today to understand the "skittishness", or better yet France during the revolution or Jan 6 Washington.
That's just it though. The Arab Spring simply is not possible in the US.
Here even poor people are well fed and relatively comfortable compared to a third world nation. Black Lives Matter and the Capital riots are the worst we see, and frankly a joke compared to countries under constant civil war or violence from within.
Our leaders treating us like we could become an Arab Spring like event only proves that our leaders are out of touch spineless cowards.
Or maybe they worry if we learned how evil they really are, they'd share the fates of many a tin pot dictator. Except they would not, BECAUSE Americans don't have it in them.
Originally posted by Old Man Whirly!
You might want to look at Sri Lanka today to understand the "skittishness", or better yet France during the revolution or Jan 6 Washington.
As an American, cdtm doesn't have to look outside the US or go back decades or centuries, he can look at January 6th 2021 in America.
Rioters chanting 'HANG MIKE PENCE' at the DC Capitol on January 6, 2021
YouTube video
He of course downplays the insurrection and attempted coup.
Originally posted by Robtard
As an American, cdtm doesn't have to look outside the US or go back decades or centuries, he can look at January 6th 2021 in America.Rioters chanting 'HANG MIKE PENCE' at the DC Capitol on January 6, 2021
YouTube videoHe of course downplays the insurrection and attempted coup.
And people are calling for the assassination of Supreme Court Justices now.
Just like some unfunny ugly comedian showed a sitting presidents severed head.
Neither remotely compares to social upheaval in, say, Afghanistan. Or Zimbabwe. Or parts of the Middle East.
Militias and warlords with tanks and actual hangings simply aren't happening in the US. It is all theater.
Originally posted by cdtm
And people are calling for the assassination of Supreme Court Justices now.Just like some unfunny ugly comedian showed a sitting presidents severed head.
Neither remotely compares to social upheaval in, say, Afghanistan. Or Zimbabwe. Or parts of the Middle East.
Militias and warlords with tanks and actual hangings simply aren't happening in the US. It is all theater.
*citations needed*
You guys need to decide if free speech and comedic exceptions are okay or not, cos you bounce back and forth went it suits you.
My position is as it always has been.
People are calling for the assassination of Supreme Court Justices now.
Just like some unfunny ugly comedian showed a sitting presidents severed head.
Neither remotely compares to social upheaval in, say, Afghanistan. Or Zimbabwe. Or parts of the Middle East.
Militias and warlords with tanks and actual hangings simply aren't happening in the US. It is all theater.
The fact we can even have this conversation without fear our lives proves America is as far from a third world dystopia or a China like autocracy as can be.
I know you probably hate to give any lip service to American exceptionalism, even as you enjoy the benefits of free expression that you won't find in North Korean, Zimbabwe, China, or even Germany or the UK.
Which proves how exceptional America really is. Because no one is threatening you with tanks or physical harm here. And no one was hung on Jan 6, and few were threatened in the peaceful protests that became less peaceful.
You're going to need to prove that claim.
I remember Kathy Griffin's stupid joke, which magically was not "free speech" to the Right for some odd reason. Did you gripe over the eight years of "hang Obama" commentary from the Right? Doubt it. You certainly blew off the "hang Mike Pence" in downplaying the insurrection because he became your enemy that day.
Great, I never claimed America was a "3rd world autocracy".