I wonder what kind of impact the oil spill will have on Seafood restaurants such as Red Lobster

I hope jobs in the restaurant industry are not lost because of this.

red lobster gets much of their stuff from belize. went there on a cruise and they spoke of RL with pride. I know a person in their management and they said that RL has secured its product from multiple locations without overdependence on any one area.

and by extension, the prices of beef (which will go up because of the seafood shortage) and food prices in general. The public is/will be screwed by this, and BP will never be able to pay, or will deny payment to many.

More cows, more methane, more slash and burn, more world bank, more IMF, more shock and awe, less fish.

full of their own crappy ... I do feel badly for the slave laborers though.

It was pitiful the way they treated their slave laborers. Giving them rusty, filthy metal oxygen tanks to breath from.

This was many years ago...maybe in the 90's....hopefully they changed their practices.

and calling Red Lobster a seafood restaurant is like calling Taco Bell a Mexican restaurant.

I do see the prices of seafood rising, however, and that will either put a squeeze on RL (and real seafood restaurants) or will cause them to have to raise prices, and people will tend to eat at cheaper places where the prices haven't risen.

http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/thehumancondition/archive/2010/05/05/red-lobster-faring-just-fine-in-the-post-spill-world.aspx

According to Rich Jeffers, a spokesman for Red Lobster, the casual-dining seafood chain gets very little of its shrimp from the gulf—or any ocean for that matter. Instead, it grows "farm-raised" shrimp in ponds throughout South America and Asia (Jeffers mentioned Thailand specifically), and at any given moment, the company has enough shrimp to meet the demand of all 700-plus of its locations worldwide for at least six months...

"What I would point out to you is the benefit of seafood sustainability," he says. "We're able to provide shrimp year-round, not relying on harvesting them from the ocean, which can only meet a certain demand."

Long John Silver's, the national fast-food chain, was not so forthcoming about the source of its shrimp, but it did tell NEWSWEEK in a short e-mail that is "not affected" by the oil spill.

:puke:

Have you seen the Thai shrimp farms and the troughs the "shrimp" are raised in?
The pictures I've seen show a disgusting malachite green, antibiotic brew, that keeps the "shrimp" barely alive until they're old enough to harvest.
If the package says farmed in Thailand or China, I throw it back and look for "wild caught".
Sure it's more expensive but the shrimp are meaty and have real flavor.

Who knew?

Just sayin'

Speaking as someone who lives in Maine.

People are still going to eat out; they might pay a bit more for seafood depending on what is is/where it's from. The surf-turf ratio might change a bit.

I wonder what the impact will be on global ecology for centuries to come.