MIDWAYJOURNEY II - Junk Food

Brace yourself for this short video of the horrifying contents of the stomach of a dead baby albatross on Midway Atoll. The island will soon be covered with tens of thousands of carcasses like this, as the plastic-filled birds die from starvation, dehydration, and choking.

Video by: Jan Vozenilek http://www.vimeo.com/JanVozenilek

Music by: Christen Lien http://www.itsnotaviolin.com

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[ozymet]

Very sad :|

[11maisey11]

my heart cries

[tkcwu]

maybe they can clean up the trash for us?

no thats not what i mean to say, maybe we can all get the government to be communistic and ban Plastic (can't be democracy, coz ppl will vote against it, and businesses will not support it)

[NineCatsz]

Shockingly sad.....and you know the other birds are full of plastic too. Makes you wonder how they can live.

[dadawas]

haha dont pollute and make those bird clean the environment.......... :)

[h3ptagrama]

sad