Poor Babies
Seems to be an unfortunate theme for me this week. People are the worst.
Next week is dedicated to being Localvoriverous. Eating natural food grown close to home means less tricky garbage and more happy babies.
I’m reminded somehow of the insidious Nestle corporation taking advantage of mothers in third world countries in order to market their infant formula over breast milk. The result is the same: the babies starved to death being fed garbage.
These photographs of albatross chicks were made just a few weeks ago on Midway Atoll, a tiny stretch of sand and coral near the middle of the North Pacific. The nesting babies are fed bellies-full of plastic by their parents, who soar out over the vast polluted ocean collecting what looks to them like food to bring back to their young. On this diet of human trash, every year tens of thousands of albatross chicks die on Midway from starvation, toxicity, and choking.
To document this phenomenon as faithfully as possible, not a single piece of plastic in any of these photographs was moved, placed, manipulated, arranged, or altered in any way. These images depict the actual stomach contents of baby birds in one of the world’s most remote marine sanctuaries, more than 2000 miles from the nearest continent.
via A Photo Student
