Today, Monday, the commercial shrimp season opens in the Gulf of Mexico off the Louisiana coast, and -- Blue Monday! The Associate Press reports, " Shrimpers are nervous that they'll find oil in their catch." See the video.

Nervous they should be. The massive BP oil spill still lurks like a horrible monster over the lives of men and women trawling the Louisiana waters for a livelihood. BP and the government say: The danger is over. The spill has been stopped. The oil has been dispersed. The surface water has been swept of oil.The sea food is safe. We've tested it: First by the smell test, then the taste test, then we ran our chemical analysis, and we swear the stuff passed. Believe us, the sea food is not oil-contaminated.

Well, what happens to government testers whose conclusions are later proven wrong? Nothing. What happens to us consumers, trusting as we are of our government, and the testers, if we consume undetected / or unreported toxins or toxin traces? We get sick and some of us die.

The BP disaster is still a disaster. Millions of gallons of toxic crude and zillion of pounds of chemicals do not just go poof like things do in cartoons and movies about magic.

I wouldn't eat Gulf sea food to save my life, because it probably wouldn't.