Floating cows in GOM..60 miles offshore Pensacola

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Floating cows in GOM..60 miles offshore Pensacola

#1 Postby iceangel » Sun Sep 11, 2005 4:04 am

My friend said a friend of hers was fishing out in the Gulf and when he started reeling in a fish, he saw cows floating in the water. Needless to say, he threw the fish back in the Gulf and it will be a super long time before I eat anything from the Gulf again.

No telling what else is out there in the Gulf or how long it has been there!!
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#2 Postby cancunkid » Sun Sep 11, 2005 7:46 am

Not to be gross or anything but cruise ships dump much worse in perfectly fine weather. :eek:
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#3 Postby beachbum_al » Sun Sep 11, 2005 10:03 am

I concur about the cows. My husband went fishing last weekend on Saturday and they saw cows, alligators, etc.
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#4 Postby inotherwords » Mon Sep 12, 2005 9:17 am

cancunkid wrote:Not to be gross or anything but cruise ships dump much worse in perfectly fine weather. :eek:


Exactly, and don't forget, marine mammals and billions of fish that die each year don't get cremated or buried when they kick the bucket. I'm surprised the sharks hadn't finished off the cows yet.

What do you think most fish eat, anyway? Put dead meat on a hook and you get strikes. I would not worry about eating the fish because of the cows, I'd worry more about the petrochemical toxins released into the Gulf.
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#5 Postby gtalum » Mon Sep 12, 2005 9:28 am

Rotting carcasses in the ocean are nothing to worry about, as far as eating the fish living tehre are concerned. As has been mentioned, there are rotting carcasses in the ocean all the time. Cycle of life and all that jazz.
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#6 Postby Windy » Mon Sep 12, 2005 11:40 am

I think the point is: would you want to eat a fish who's last few meals consisted of human, human, and more human?
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#7 Postby Rob Beaux » Mon Sep 12, 2005 11:54 am

You do realize that they used dead thigns for bait for crabs and lobsters right?

Fish do other thing in the water besides die...think reproduction, look up broadcast spawners. :)
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#8 Postby Anonymous » Mon Sep 12, 2005 12:23 pm

Human meat is biologically no different from any other meat. It is only our societal barriers that make eating it wrong.
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#9 Postby GalvestonDuck » Mon Sep 12, 2005 12:40 pm

sharpenu wrote:Human meat is biologically no different from any other meat. It is only our societal barriers that make eating it wrong.


SOYLENT GREEN IS....oh nevermind....
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#10 Postby stormie_skies » Mon Sep 12, 2005 12:55 pm

:A:
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#11 Postby Windy » Mon Sep 12, 2005 1:31 pm

sharpenu wrote:Human meat is biologically no different from any other meat. It is only our societal barriers that make eating it wrong.


True, but that social barrier is a pretty big one, for me! :18:
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#12 Postby Miss Mary » Mon Sep 12, 2005 1:32 pm

Shawn! Whenever we check out a new Sci-Fi rental, I see SG in DVD format, staring us in the face. Something tells me if I rented this movie, my daughter Laura would never forgive me. So I pass it by....is it really that creepy?

Mary
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#13 Postby GalvestonDuck » Mon Sep 12, 2005 1:42 pm

Miss Mary wrote:Shawn! Whenever we check out a new Sci-Fi rental, I see SG in DVD format, staring us in the face. Something tells me if I rented this movie, my daughter Laura would never forgive me. So I pass it by....is it really that creepy?

Mary


Creepy, no. Cheesy...yes! :)
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#14 Postby streetsoldier » Mon Sep 12, 2005 4:55 pm

GalvestonDuck wrote:
sharpenu wrote:Human meat is biologically no different from any other meat. It is only our societal barriers that make eating it wrong.


SOYLENT GREEN IS....oh nevermind....






(...with applause for Charlton Heston and Edward G. Robinson for their portrayals...) :wink: [/b]
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#15 Postby JenBayles » Mon Sep 12, 2005 4:58 pm

SOYLENT GREEN!!!!!!! OMG!!

:lol: :lol: :fools: :notworthy: :lol: :lol:
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#16 Postby azsnowman » Mon Sep 12, 2005 5:46 pm

GalvestonDuck wrote:
Miss Mary wrote:Shawn! Whenever we check out a new Sci-Fi rental, I see SG in DVD format, staring us in the face. Something tells me if I rented this movie, my daughter Laura would never forgive me. So I pass it by....is it really that creepy?

Mary


Creepy, no. Cheesy...yes! :)


"Cheese and CRACKERS?"

Dennis 8-)
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#17 Postby LSU2001 » Mon Sep 12, 2005 6:07 pm

GalvestonDuck wrote:
sharpenu wrote:Human meat is biologically no different from any other meat. It is only our societal barriers that make eating it wrong.


SOYLENT GREEN IS....oh nevermind....


duckie you are showing your age :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
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#18 Postby GalvestonDuck » Mon Sep 12, 2005 6:28 pm

lsu2001 wrote:
GalvestonDuck wrote:
sharpenu wrote:Human meat is biologically no different from any other meat. It is only our societal barriers that make eating it wrong.


SOYLENT GREEN IS....oh nevermind....


duckie you are showing your age :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:


LOL! Barely though...I was 5 when the movie came out. Didn't see it until recently on Turner Classic Movies. But I remember an SNL skit guest-starring Charlton Heston, running around saying "Soylent green is PEEEEEEEEO-PLLLLLLLLE!!!!" And being a movie buff, I knew it as a trivia question. :)

So as not to totally hijack this thread and get it back on topic...I offer one more famous movie quote (this one, weather-related) --

"COW!!!"
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#19 Postby jburns » Mon Sep 12, 2005 6:37 pm

Considering that there are federal standards for the amount of insect parts and rat feces allowed in processed meats I wouldn't be worrying about what a fish had for its last meal.
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#20 Postby jimbo » Mon Sep 12, 2005 6:44 pm

GalvestonDuck wrote:[quote=""COW!!!"


Tooooooooo Funny............
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