can you stomach this? the birds couldn't

[leave iraq]

These photographs of albatross chicks were made just a few weeks ago on Midway Atoll, a tiny stretch of sand and coral near the middle of the North Pacific. The nesting babies are fed bellies-full of plastic by their parents, who soar out over the vast polluted ocean collecting what looks to them like food to bring back to their young. On this diet of human trash, every year tens of thousands of albatross chicks die on Midway from starvation, toxicity, and choking.

To document this phenomenon as faithfully as possible, not a single piece of plastic in any of these photographs was moved, placed, manipulated, arranged, or altered in any way. These images depict the actual stomach contents of baby birds in one of the world's most remote marine sanctuaries, more than 2000 miles from the nearest continent.

http://www.chrisjordan.com/current_set2.php?id=11

[meti57b]

1. Bless the beasts and the children ...........

Bless the beasts and the children
For in this world they have no voice
They have no choice

(The Carpenters)

[ellenfl]

2. that is SO sad. eom

[maxpower]

3. Breaks my heart

Innocent creatures dying because of our filthy arrogance. One world for all.



Peace,
Max

[Triana]

4. MORE on this....scroll down to "Plastic Food" section:

http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/hawaii/blog/so-you-think-you-can-dance...like-an-albatross

[annabanana]

5. Oh God, lover of all creation,

Inspire us to worthy stewardship of the Earth and all its creatures which you have given into our care, to hold in trust for our children and our children’s children.


Those pictures are heartbreaking and terrifying.

[sinkingfeeling]

6. And there are those who say man has domination over the world and so nothing he does can be wrong.

[Jennicut]

7. Well, we have a huge trash dump in the middle of the world.

Not surprised the animals and aquatic life will suffer.

[Faryn Balyncd]

8. K&R

[donheld]

9. So very sad what we are doing to this planet

[SoCalDem]

10. there's some brand of "bath-oil beads" that look exactly like fish eggs

and many marine creatures are dying from them :(

[nadinbrzezinski]

11. This is what we are doing to the planet

today it is the birds... tomorrow it will be us....

In fact, it is already us, with all the recent research on Obsogenes... it is already us.

[a la izquierda]

12. That is horrifying.

That's all I can say.

[Liberal_in_LA]

13. Horrifying! I had no idea.