Gulf oil spill pushes oysters off Red Lobster menu

[Ed Barrow]

Source: Orlando Sentinel

The Gulf oil spill is forcing the removal of oysters from Red Lobster's menu.

A Franklin, La., processing plant that provided Orlando-based Darden Restaurants with oysters for its Red Lobster chain shut down last week because it was unable to maintain its supply.

AmeriPure Processing Co.'s co-owner and founder said the closure could last through October.

Once Red Lobster's current supply runs out, probably in the next couple of weeks, oysters will come off the menu, Darden spokesman Rich Jeffers said Monday. It's uncertain when they'll return.



Read more: http://www.orlandosentinel.com/business/os-darden-oysters-20100621,0,4961201.story

[truthisfreedom]

1. We'll be seeing a lot more of this news.

[Bobbieo]

2. Can Red Lobster survive?

[patrick t. cakes]

4. silver lining?

[catnhatnh]

3. They'll return when pigs fly...

Oysters are among the ecologically most delicate creatures on earth. They require a fixed water chemistry, flow rate, temperature, water depth, and an established bed of oysters to spawn upon. Then with the multi-year efforts of cultivators a bed may be established in a decade or so. Gulf oysters as a plentiful source may be a century away...see: Bay, Chesapeake, the effect of pollution on oyster beds.

[meow mix]

5. lies!! oysters love toxic oil theyve never had it so good

red lobster is just trying to make bp look bad, they have oysters trust me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhTx0a0AkdE