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So uh, how edible will these billion oysters be considering the crap they’re filtering out of the river..?
by cgb223 8y ago
So uh, how edible will these billion oysters be considering the crap they’re filtering out of the river..?
- darkpuma 8y agoThere is a profit motive for those involved to underplay the toxicity of these oysters.
- gonesilent 8y agoWhats in the clam chowder?....fish
- samstave 8y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQ_JyIgjwkc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQ_JyIgjwkc
- 2muchcoffeeman 8y agoWell, I read the article. They are not suggesting that you should eat the oysters ...
- erikpukinskis 8y agoMy general understanding about bioremediation is the material has to be removed and put in a landfill.
- darkpuma 8y ago> "Billion Oyster Project partners with more than 70 restaurants in New York City. The businesses save up their oyster shells rather than tossing them, and a collection partner for the Billion Oyster Project rounds them up and carts them off to Governors Island, a small island due east of the Statue of Liberty." It seems unclear to me whether their deal with restaurants is limited to collecting shells from restaurants or includes distributing oysters to restaurants as well. Hopefully it's only the former. One hopes the oysters being served are not local.
- jacquesm 8y ago> One hopes the oysters being served are not local. Whether you're consuming the local waste or waste from somewhere else doesn't make much of a difference.
- darkpuma 8y agoNot all regions are equally polluted.
- mattkrause 8y agoI think works the other way round. They collect the shells of edible oysters grown in less polluted areas. These are cleaned and used to jumpstart the NYC oyster colony, which are not yet edible.
- Cthulhu_ 8y agoThe "natural" process is that e.g. oysters grab the co2 and bad stuff from the water, die, sink to the bottom and get covered in sediment. That's where major carbon sinks ended up anyway, to be turned into oil/coal/gas over millions of years.
- oyster 8y agoSomehow, I think the pollutants originating from human activity will really be very much quite different from what used to become sequestered in sedimentary rock. Smoke detector radiological sources, teflon pans, noble gases and refridgerants, cadmium paints and pigments, dioxins, kepone, BPA, hydrazine, sulfur mustards, medication, depleted uranium. The list goes on.
- mfoy_ 8y agoNice try, Oyster. Back to the NY harbour with you.
- PhilWright 8y agoCoal comes from dead plant matter that decays into peat and over millions of years into coal. Oil/gas from organic material that are buried under sedimentary rock.
- kijin 8y agoIf the goal is to build a reef, eating up all the oysters isn't going to help. So maybe it's actually a good thing that those oysters will be inedible for the first couple of decades?
- stubish 8y agoProbably as edible as the clams from San Francisco Warf... tourist trade only.
- quicklime 8y agoThe video attached to the article says that "they're still not safe to eat" (2:35)