Essential fatty acids from fish being added to dairy, eggs

[Elad]

http://www.health24.com/news/DietFood_News_Feed/1-3420,36124.asp

Vegetarians unknowingly eating fish
Created: Monday, June 12, 2006
The trend towards adding omega-3 to dairy and other staple food products may be causing vegetarians to inadvertently eat fish products, a predicament that could be avoided through open, honest labelling.

The Vegetarian Society in the UK does not consider fish eaters to be vegetarians, although dairy products that are free from animal derivatives, such as animal rennet, and free-range eggs are acceptable.

But with the explosion of omega-3-containing products onto the market, there is concern that some dairy and egg products contain fish oil that is not declared on the label.

Moreover the omega-3 in some dairy products and eggs are believed to be a result of feeding animals with fish, even though it does not form part of their natural diet.

-more at link-

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

1. even more reason to go vegan!

Ive been making the shift the last couple of months, and boy am I happy :D

[ThomCat]

9. That's awesome.

Congratulations! :applause:

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

12. Thanks ThomCat

boy its been hard, but its going well. i still relapse though..sigh

[ThomCat]

13. Relapses happen occasionally at first.

You'll quickly build up some new food habits and it gets easier. :)

[flvegan]

2. How odd.

I can only wonder how it's added to the label. Does it just say under the ingredients somewhere, "omega 3" as I just can't see that as any form of honest labeling.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

3. Doesn't 8th Continent Soymilk have animal-derived vitamins?

I think there needs to be labeling of where all that stuff comes from and I'm not even vegan. We also need to have mandated labeling of GMO products.

[LeftyMom]

4. They switched from animal-derived D3 to plant-derived D2

http://www.8thcontinent.com/our_soymilks/product_detail.asp?flavor=orig

It still has GMO soy and mystery sugar though. :puke:

edit: Here's the email somebody over at VeganRepresent got from them after checking to see if the version with D2 is vegan:

Thank you for contacting 8th Continent with your inquiry. At this time, we cannot state that any of the 8th Continent Soy Milk products are vegan

We hope you find this information helpful. Please let us know if we can help you again.


Sincerely,

Jenny Path
Consumer Services

I'm guessing whatever the hell those "natural and arteficial flavors" are it's something none of us would want to eat.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

5. Okay, thanks.

I drink Silk anyway. The Silk Spice is so good.

[LeftyMom]

6. hey wait a minute

"The Vegetarian Society in the UK does not consider fish eaters to be vegetarians, although dairy products that are free from animal derivatives, such as animal rennet, and free-range eggs are acceptable."

Uh, do they know what else is an animal derivative? Dairy. :grr:

[mzteris]

7. Omega 3 doesn't necessarily

have to be from fish - you can also get it from flax or algae.

From what I've read, one or both are added to chicken feed for the Omega 3 which makes way more sense than trying to get a chicken to eat fish.



Speaking of, I've been giving my kids "Sea Veggies" - a sea algae supplement - supposedly you get from it what the fish get from eating the plankton that eat it (and what people get from eating the fish). I figure we cut out the middle man - er - fish - that way. :)

They don't like them (they taste funny, mommmmmmmmmmmmmm) - but I think I'm seeing some improvements. (Though that *may* just be a developmental stage.) I'll probably go through another bottle, take them off for a month - and see what happens. . .

[Beaverhausen]

8. LOL. Look at the ad at the bottom of thispage

Oh, the irony...

[ThomCat]

10. It's not there now. Can you tell us what it was?

:)

[Beaverhausen]

11. It was an ad for Omega-3 products from "genuine fish oil"

[ThomCat]

14. ((groan))

That was ironic. :)

Good catch. :P