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Wednesday, September 13, 2006

Mussels....Back On The Menu?

According to this study on Yahoo! News, too much Prozac in our rivers and streams may be endangering aquatic life. It would seem that certain elements of Prozac are contained within urine and when that urine ends up in freshwater supplies it, according to the study, kills freshwater mussels. Wow. Thats a pretty impressive, highly specific, study but I'm wonderin' why stop there? Why not go a step farther and see what the effect of eating a Prozac-enhanced mussel has on a human? We all know that oysters have certain qualities but oysters, in the right situation, actually have a bearable taste (not for me, but for the public in general). Currently, 70% of our mussel population has gone extinct and I believe it's because the things just taste so absolutely foul. Even fried mussels are nasty; they taste like fried meaty dirt. But if a study showed that mussels have a calming effect similar to taking Prozac then, hey, people might start eating the things. They might even catch a cult-like following similar to their more refined, libido-inducing cousin. And, guess what, once people start wanting something, somehow the supply for that something grows to meet the demand. Maybe one day they will have drug-enhanced food of all types. Things like Viagra-infused beef or a nice tuna steak slightly seared in olive oil, parsley, and Lipitor. As for me, I'm holdin' out for some nice thick cut bacon which came from a pig who was only fed a steady diet of corn, gravy, Xanax, Thorazine, and Ritalin. Oh yeah, that'd be some good hog there.