Oil, don’t they mean fat? Fish fat. Not quite as marketable, I know, but that is what it is. You cant pick up a fish and squeeze the oil out. When you catch a fish and remove the hook, oil does not leak out of the wound.
I have a similar issue with the notion of soy milk, if it does not have breast then it does not produce milk. When the beans are copulating in the fields and then feeding their young then and only then can e cal it milk. But it does not feed its young because it is a bean. A bean, that makes it juice. Soy juice. Bean juice. Not such an appealing alternative to pour on your cereal each morning. But that is a story for another day.
Back to the fish fat.
It looks like oil because it has been melted down, processed and refined. When you cook lamb chops on a bbq and it leaves and shiny film of liquid on the hot plate that is fat. No-one calls it sheep-oil. People enjoy a crisp piece of pork cracking but would anyone willingly take a daily gel capsule of pig oil…I think not.
A friend recently received an international shipment of fish oil. The label spruiked the products medicinal properties including reducing the swelling and pain associated with arthritis. Fish do not suffer from the crippling affects of arthritis, presumably due to the abundant presence of fish oil in their body. I have to ask, is it the presence of the oil or the absence of hips, knees and knuckles that renders fish immune to arthritis?
Are the fish that have had the oil squeezed out of them now at higher risk of contracting the disease?
Amongst other instructions printed on the bottle was the following storage instruction;
“ may be frozen with confidence”
May be frozen, ok but with confidence? How many people are calling he customer service line to report their nervous anxiety when placing it in the freezer/
People placing the product in the freezer before spending the evening demonstrating behaviour more commonly associated with obsessive compulsive disorder. Opening the freezer door every five minutes to check that it is alright. To confirm that it is freezing. Of course the continuous opening of the freezer will ultimately lead to the thawing of the other products already contained there in. Perhaps that is what the complaints were about
“Yes, I recently placed a bottle of your fish oil in my freezer, and now my sausages
have thawed and gone off”
I like to think the concern regarding the freezing of the product is more to do with the anxiety of consumers opening the bottle a month later to discover it has solidified into a lump of fat.
Whilst on the topic of supplements, I want to discuss my many issues with horny goat weed. I will start with its name…
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