Animals have no use for payouts—they can't move to another town, they can't eat something else, and they can't pursue another line of work. So BP owes animals something different! As oil continues to wreck the water and destroy animals' breeding, nesting, and feeding grounds in the Gulf of Mexico, tens of thousands of animals are suffering and dying painful and lingering deaths—and there is no end in sight.

In the gulf, oil-soaked birds slowly drown, turtles endure chemical burns and organ damage when they ingest tar balls, many marine mammals, such as dolphins, have already been found dead along the coast, and there is now reason to believe that BP is burning animals alive at sea.