+Kills Sea Turtles, Sign to SAVE Sea Turtles! Shrimp's Dirty Secrets: a Health and Environmental Nightmare

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If that shrimp is not farmed in a pool of sludge, then turtles are likely killed in the nets of the shrimp trawl. I want to give you all the opportunity to Take Action to protect and save sea turtles from deadly fishing hooks! PLEASE click-through on the links below to sign our petitions or if they don't work go to http://www.seaturtles.orgSupport the creation of strong, protective critical habitat for the endangered leatherback sea turtle off CA, OR, and WA coasts. The current habitat proposal falls short of true protections, speak out to make it stronger!http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/1723/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=2010End the drownings of loggerhead sea turtles in the Gulf of Mexico from the deadly bottom longline fishery. We forced them to close it, and they want to re-open it allow over 1,000 sea turtle captures in the next 3 years by this deadly fishery. Speak out and tell NOAA to keep it closed!http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/1723/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=2096I am happy to answer any questions about these campaigns you may have. The Sea Turtle Restoration Project led the global effort more than a decade ago to require the use of TEDs or Turtle Excluder Devices on shrimp nets. The TEDs are required but inspections and oversight borders on non-existent. Join us in our fight to bring back sea turtles from the brink of extinction!For the turtles,Chris Christopher Pincetich, Ph.D.Campaign Leader, Sea Turtle Restoration Project(415) 663-8590, ext. 102P.O. Box 370, Forest Knolls, CA 94933 USALocation: 9255 Sir Francis Drake Blvd, Olema, CA 94950Visit our WEB sites:http://www.seaturtles.org http://www.gotmercury.org http://www.SpawnUSA.orgJoin the Sea Turtle Restoration Project on Facebook Causes On Feb 4, 2010, at 12:38 PM, Sage, Mike wrote: terry koch [terrykoch1 ] Thursday, February 04, 2010 10:30 AM [southBayVeggies] Shrimp's Dirty Secrets: a Health and Environmental Nightmare Everywhere we look, there are growing reasons to go veg! Shrimp's Dirty Secrets: Why America's Favorite Seafood Is a Health and Environmental Nightmare The environmental impact of shrimp can be horrific. But most Americans don't know where their shrimp comes from or what's in it. by Jill Richardson Americans love their shrimp. It's the most popular seafood in the country, but unfortunately much of the shrimp we eat are a cocktail of chemicals, harvested at the expense of one of the world's productive ecosystems. Worse, guidelines for finding some kind of "sustainable shrimp" are so far nonexistent. In his book, Bottomfeeder: How to Eat Ethically in a World of Vanishing Seafood, Taras Grescoe paints a repulsive picture of how shrimp are farmed in one region of India. The shrimp pond preparation begins with urea, superphosphate, and diesel, then progresses to the use of piscicides (fish-killing chemicals like chlorine and rotenone), pesticides and antibiotics (including some that are banned in the U.S.), and ends by treating the shrimp with sodium tripolyphosphate (a suspected neurotoxicant), Borax, and occasionally caustic soda……. More at http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/02/04