Me: Soooo. How you cat-folks feeling about some canned cat food this morning? Can I hear some ‘Amens’ on that?
Invader cat: Amen! Amen! Amen!
Naiad: Hold that thought a minute. Any idea what they put in those big bags of Purina food? Where they get it? That sort of thing?
Me: No idea at all. I just thought you guys would want a dose of something out of a can.
Invader cat: Amen! Amen! Amen!
Naiad: I’m not so sure. Got any liver and bacon flavor?
Me: Probably some of that in here somewhere. But the cans on top are salmon, tuna and chicken and tuna. Below, is seafood supper. I’d rather not dig down in the package if it’s okay.
Naiad: I’m not all that hungry Might go out and catch a mouse and just settle for that. I heard you grumbling and muttering about that radioactive bunch of tuna they caught out of San Diego the other day.
Me: Yeah, they did. But it was just ceisum 134 and 137. Not dangerous levels yet.
Naiad: So you figure they just threw them away? Or ground them up into fish meal to feed to pigs? Maybe put them into cans of food of one sort or another?
Me: I don’t know. I don’t think there’s any routine testing anyway. The article said, “The real test of how radioactivity affects tuna populations comes this summer when researchers planned to repeat the study with a larger number of samples. Bluefin tuna that journeyed last year were exposed to radiation for about a month. The upcoming travelers have been swimming in radioactive waters for a longer period. How this will affect concentrations of contamination remains to be seen.
“Now that scientists know that bluefin tuna can transport radiation, they also want to track the movements of other migratory species including sea turtles, sharks and seabirds.”
I reckons they’ll be checking it out, directly.
Naiad: You go ahead and feed the rest of these guys whatever you want to. I’m going hunting.
Invader cat: Amen! Amen! Amen!
Old Jules
So Far From Heaven 
Morning Jules,
Like this posting. Here, or cats have never so far uttered any sentiments re their food except for, “Let us have it … immediately!” 😉
Enjoy yor day,
Pit
Hi Pit. Thanks for the visit. Country cats are more outspoken, methinks. Gracias, J
A fisherman friend was asked about selling fish that had mercury in ’em (remember that scare?) and he replied that they just hung the fish up by the tail and when the mercury got to the head, they cut off the head. Think that might work with the tuna?
Hi Momlady: Might work. As likely as anything else to work if nothing else does, I reckons. Gracias, J
HA!!