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Subject: [Leica] Oysters
From: sonc.hegr at gmail.com (Sonny Carter)
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2014 22:11:29 -0600
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Depends entirely upon what veggies you eat, how they are grown, cleaned and 
prepared.

Sent from my iPhone

Sonny Carter
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> On Feb 16, 2014, at 9:12 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com> 
> wrote:
> 
> Simplest to turn vegetarian, far less health risk, on the whole...(-:
> Cheers
> Jayanand
> 
>> On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 10:44 PM,  <lrzeitlin at aol.com> wrote:
>> Tina,
>> This is why oysters were so cheap. Keep your medical insurance paid up. 
>> The following is an extract from "PUFFIN: An Intracoastal Waterway Log or 
>> 28 Days Before the Mast." I do hope conditions have changed since I 
>> published this a couple of decades ago.
>> 
>> 
>>        "We passed many fishing boats along the waterway in South Carolina 
>> and a couple of oyster dredges. The oyster boats scoured the bottom with 
>> a conveyer belt system that scooped up everything on the river bed and 
>> brought it to the surface on its moving belt. Crewmen picked out the 
>> desirable oysters and clams from amidst the old tires and shoes before 
>> the belt rotated downward toward the bottom again. The residue was dumped 
>> back in the water. These boats appeared to pay not the slightest 
>> attention to the signs?posted every few hundred yards?prohibiting oyster 
>> dredging in polluted areas. Raw oysters and clams suddenly dropped 
>> several places on my seafood appetizer list.?
>> 
>> 
>>        Several small boats were loaded so heavily with oysters that the 
>> gunwales were only an inch or two above the water. A slight wave would 
>> have swamped them and liberated the oysters. We stopped for the night at 
>> Cedar Creek, the last potential anchorage before crossing Pamlico Sound."
>> 
>> 
>> Larry Z
>> 
>> 
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