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To make fish oil, you need fish that are low enough in the food chain to not have many PCBs. Fish oil is usually made from the menhaden fish (aka the alewife f
by lsb 17y ago
To make fish oil, you need fish that are low enough in the food chain to not have many PCBs. Fish oil is usually made from the menhaden fish (aka the alewife fish), which used to be plentiful all around the Atlantic coastline of the US, feeding on algae. With all those fish turned into fish oil pellets, there are massive algae blooms, and the food chain's getting disrupted.
See http://www.ethicurean.com/2009/03/23/menhaden/ http://www.ethicurean.com/2009/03/23/menhaden/ and http://motherjones.com/environment/2006/03/ill-take-menhaden http://motherjones.com/environment/2006/03/ill-take-menhaden
- itistoday 17y agoThanks for that! Any recommendations on alternatives? I find other sources of Omega3 (flax seed) to be not as good unfortunately...
- vps2000 17y agohttp://www.v-pure.com/ http://www.v-pure.com/ DHA and EPA are made by algae. You can extract it from the algae instead of the fish who eat the algae (or the fish who eat the fish who eat the algae...). There are other brands, too: http://www.pangeaveg.com/index.html?stocknumber=633 http://www.pangeaveg.com/index.html?stocknumber=633 "OMega-3-DHA contains DHA that is extracted from microalgae, which is grown in fermentation tanks derived from cultures of golden marine algae isolated from the Pacific Ocean." http://www.pangeaveg.com/index.html?stocknumber=642 http://www.pangeaveg.com/index.html?stocknumber=642