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Is There Lithium in Your Crawfish?

Posted on 5/14/24 at 8:37 am
Posted by Stadium Rat
Metairie
Member since Jul 2004
9575 posts
Posted on 5/14/24 at 8:37 am


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In a lab at Mississippi College, biology professor Joseph Kazery and his students are studying how different organs in crawfish absorb lithium.

"As aquatic organisms, crawfish can take up large amounts of lithium dissolved in water. Because other creatures — including people — eat crawfish, looking at them allows us to see how lithium moves through the food chain and potentially into us," said Kazery, according to an article from Phys.org.
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Posted by Antib551
Houma, LA
Member since Dec 2018
953 posts
Posted on 5/14/24 at 8:53 am to
What a useless article. Basically, just an announcement that a study is being conducted. Then they use a picture of the largest collection of blue crawfish I've ever seen to scare people that lithium is turning crawfish blue??

This statement right here would be a clear huge red flag that a pond or area is overly contaminated.
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A review on lithium toxicity in plants by ScienceDirect stated that lithium can disrupt metabolic processes like photosynthesis which ultimately can inhibit growth and yield.


Also, is a crawfish's life cycle even long enough to accumulate enough lithium to be dangerous to predators, but not itself? Especially in farm raised...but I guess that's what the study is for.
Posted by Righteous Dude
Member since Oct 2017
1305 posts
Posted on 5/14/24 at 1:04 pm to
Good Grief.

No telling how much "Certified Lithium-Free Crawfish" are gonna cost.
Posted by MeridianDog
Home on the range
Member since Nov 2010
14263 posts
Posted on 5/14/24 at 1:52 pm to
I live in Clinton and drive past MC every day. That PhD is not in my Sunday School Class, but the sanctuary is very big, and he might be a back row Baptist.

There is a fact you guys can use when you play trivial pursuit at the bar Friday Night.

Here is another one for you. There are no crawfish ponds in Clinton, I have seen them in the ditch that runs through Byrd Heights, but it was over 60 years ago, many years before lithium batteries became a thing.
This post was edited on 5/14/24 at 1:54 pm
Posted by Saskwatch
Member since Feb 2016
16613 posts
Posted on 5/14/24 at 3:32 pm to
I like some lithium in my crawfish. Keeps me charged up and feeling happy
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