Not Your Father's Cadbury Bunny, or How Oil Spills Ruin Everything

No, this "chocolate-covered" creature is a little less sweet and much more flammable. This is a product of mass-consumption and greed and capitalism and eco-rape. And it's nowhere near ending.

From The Big Picture:

AP Photographer Charlie Riedel just filed the following images of seabirds caught in the oil slick on a beach on Louisiana's East Grand Terre Island. As BP engineers continue their efforts to cap the underwater flow of oil, landfall is becoming more frequent, and the effects more evident.

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Matt said…
This literally makes me sick to my stomach. I did hear on NPR on the way home tonight that this particular bird is actually doing pretty well, having been cleaned up in time and hadn't seemed to ingest much gunk. But, still. Really. What the hell have we done???

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