Good News! We now have combined our efforts with the Gulf Coast Oyster Industry to maximize the effectiveness of our message to the FDA.
Please go to www.saveourshellfish.org and sign the new petition. This issue is of vital importance to the livelihood and culture of the region, and the effects of the FDA ban would resonate on a national scale.
Good News! We now have combined our efforts with the Gulf Coast Oyster Industry to maximize the effectiveness of our message to the FDA.
Please go to www.saveourshellfish.org and sign the new petition. This issue is of vital importance to the livelihood and culture of the region, and the effects of the FDA ban would resonate on a national scale.
We the undersigned respectfully demand that your agency re-evaluate the recently-announced policy requiring the sterilization of Gulf Coast oysters harvested from April through October. Such a regulation would have dire effects on our $500 million per year industry, and ultimately result in the direct loss of thousands of jobs. The rules would also have the resonant effect of diversely impacting an entire region in the process of recovery. What is astounding to the responsible, resilient seafood producers in our region is that the FDA has forged a policy which all but ignores the risks involving imported seafood, checking only a small percentage of the millions of tons of product. At the same time you're seemingly try to sink American seafood producers with unnecessary regulations. We truly believe that a reasoned review of the 2011 policy will result in a correction of the views espoused by your ill-advised adviser, Mr. Michael Taylor. Thank you for your time in reading this letter.
We signed the "Save the Gulf Coast Oyster Industry" petition!
# 2,745:
10:19 am PST, Nov 5,Tara Mankin, Louisiana
# 2,744:
10:08 am PST, Nov 5,Derrick Lolley, Florida
# 2,743:
10:08 am PST, Nov 5,Name not displayed, Georgia
This is an unnecessary burden on our domestic fishery. I've been enjoying Appalachicola Oysters for 30 years, with no ill effects. Spend this energy inspecting Asian imported seafood!
# 2,742:
10:02 am PST, Nov 5,Chad Johnson, Tennessee
# 2,741:
9:54 am PST, Nov 5,Norman Romagosa, Louisiana
# 2,740:
9:53 am PST, Nov 5,Laurin Hornsby, Texas
# 2,739:
9:52 am PST, Nov 5,Alice Lolley, Florida
save our oysters and our way of living
# 2,738:
9:47 am PST, Nov 5,Shawn Tusa, Louisiana
# 2,737:
9:47 am PST, Nov 5,Libby Sexton, Alabama
# 2,736:
9:45 am PST, Nov 5,Joy Cantrelle, Louisiana
# 2,735:
9:45 am PST, Nov 5,Louisiana Seafood, Louisiana
Please sign new petition here: http://www.saveourshellfish.org/
# 2,734:
9:23 am PST, Nov 5,Name not displayed, Colorado
Please start thinking things through a little more with the use of plain old-fashioned common sense.
# 2,733:
9:12 am PST, Nov 5,Jamie Cortez, Louisiana
# 2,732:
9:11 am PST, Nov 5,Nicolette Vizier, Louisiana
# 2,731:
9:06 am PST, Nov 5,Brenda Williams, Louisiana
SAVE OUR OYSTERS do not change the taste !!!
Check the imported seafood for bateria
# 2,730:
8:57 am PST, Nov 5,Darrin Johnson, Louisiana
This is a dumb idea. More people die eating peanuts.
# 2,729:
8:55 am PST, Nov 5,Rolando Martinez, Louisiana
leave our seafood alone! go mess with cigarettes and rotten lettuce!
# 2,728:
8:53 am PST, Nov 5,Name not displayed, Louisiana
# 2,727:
8:53 am PST, Nov 5,Melissa Unbehagen, Louisiana
# 2,726:
8:47 am PST, Nov 5,Barbara Oustalet, Louisiana
SAVE OUR OYSTERS!!! SAVE THE PEARL OF THE GULF!!!
# 2,725:
8:45 am PST, Nov 5,Jim Loser, Georgia
# 2,724:
8:38 am PST, Nov 5,Karen Rudder, Florida
I have been eating oysters for 40 years both raw & cooked.
I don't want the FDA telling me not to eat oysters if and when I desire them. I can not believe our country is involved in this debate when
they have failed with the tobacco industry. A WARNING NOT TO EAT
OYSTERS IF YOU HAVE LIVER ISSUES IS STRONG ENOUGH........
DO DON'T KILL THIS WONDERFUL LOCAL INDUSTRY JUST BECAUSE THEY DO NOT HAVE A STRONG LOBBY.........
# 2,723:
8:35 am PST, Nov 5,John Michael Early, Louisiana
don't take away my heaven...
# 2,722:
8:34 am PST, Nov 5,Tara Kelley, Louisiana
This is ridiculous! How long have people been eating oysters again?!? If chicken isn't cooked right or handled properly a person can get sick. Are we going to start regulating poultry too?!?
# 2,721:
8:33 am PST, Nov 5,Ashley Lea, Georgia
# 2,720:
8:21 am PST, Nov 5,Justin Iserhardt, Texas
This is another over-reaching step of the government to create a nanny state. The government assumes we're too stupid to take care of ourselves. This may, in fact, be somewhat true. But you know what? Those folks who are too stupid to realize what they are eating, or too stupid to read the warnings posted over the door and on the menu itself, deserve any problems they have as a result.
# 2,719:
8:19 am PST, Nov 5,Joanne Ryan, Florida
# 2,718:
8:17 am PST, Nov 5,Amanda Puente, Texas
# 2,717:
8:16 am PST, Nov 5,Remi Viada, Louisiana
# 2,716:
8:16 am PST, Nov 5,Jason High, Florida
# 2,715:
8:15 am PST, Nov 5,Name not displayed, Florida
Please eat at your own risk!!
# 2,714:
8:00 am PST, Nov 5,Alan Hale, Louisiana
# 2,713:
7:51 am PST, Nov 5,Jenny Adams Flynn, Mississippi
Cigarettes and Alcohol kill more people every minute than oysters do in a year. Why not take a closer look at the meat industry or the fast food industry and put stricter regulations on them - the hormones and additives in those foods are extremely dangerous and account for more deaths and illness than oysters do. Save our oysters!
# 2,712:
7:49 am PST, Nov 5,Jerry V. Graves, Jr., Louisiana
Leave the oyster industry alone. How about banning Chinese sheetrock instead?
# 2,711:
7:41 am PST, Nov 5,Winston Doussan, Louisiana
# 2,710:
7:21 am PST, Nov 5,Daren Kelly, Louisiana
# 2,709:
7:21 am PST, Nov 5,Jeffrey Nicklas, Georgia
I have been eating raw oysters all my life. For the government to continue to tell me what I can and cannot do is extremely frustrating. Please don't take raw oysters.
# 2,708:
7:15 am PST, Nov 5,Name not displayed, Louisiana
# 2,707:
7:13 am PST, Nov 5,Paul Gorski, Texas
# 2,706:
7:10 am PST, Nov 5,Sherri Daquipa, California
# 2,705:
7:02 am PST, Nov 5,John Harris, Mississippi
The nanny government strikes again!
# 2,704:
7:00 am PST, Nov 5,Rhonda Madach, Louisiana
Plllease, pretty soon the government will be telling us we can't eat gumbo, HELP
VOTE NO!!!!
# 2,703:
6:57 am PST, Nov 5,Read Hendon, Mississippi
# 2,702:
6:50 am PST, Nov 5,George Hisler, Texas
A simple way to fix the problem is to put a warning lable on the containers that holds the oysters. The FDA uses this method all the time. Why would'nt it work with oysters? Why is it any different with this situation? I would like to know. This is how companies have done it for a long time.
