Support the Transparent Label Campaign (for supplements)
The transparent label campaign is a worldwide petition to ask governments to mandate clear labels on supplements, to show if they contain animal ingredients. Many contain ‘hidden’ ingredients like gelatine (animal bones), fish, collagen, creatine and magnesium stearate, which collectively kills billions of creatures).
The campaign is run by Terraseed, a fantastic nutritional supplement company in Colorado, USA which offers vegan supplements for adults and children.
It says that wording is often deliberating misleading, as it does not want consumers to know the ingredients that are put in most supplements, to make more profits (factory-farmed animals are cheaper to them, than quality alternatives).
Many supplements in our health stores contain ingredients you would not take, if you knew what they were. For instance, krill supplements are from the food that whales and other marine creatures rely on. And all campaigners say they should not be sold (Holland and Barratt have stopped their sale, but Boots have not).
Sign the petition online, and if it changes the US law, then hopefully the same will happen elsewhere.
Always check with your GP before taking supplements if on medication (also for women if pregnant or nursing). Keep them away from children and pets, and recycle unused supplements and medicines at pharmacies (never flush them down the loo).
Boycott krill supplements (to save the whales)
Krill is one of the main foods eaten by whales, and experts say there is no ‘sustainable version’, as krill is such an important part of the food chain, that it needs to kept in the seas.
Yet many health stores (including Boots) continue to sell krill supplements, even though they have been asked not to by those campaigning to save marine creatures.
Holland & Barrett recently announced that after learning of the issues, it will no longer sell krill supplements. If this chain can do it, so can Boots.
Krill oil is simply an omega 3 fatty acid. You can get these from food (nuts and seeds) or take a plant-based omega 3 supplement).
Atlantic krill is particularly important for blue and humpback whales, as well as being an important food source in the southern ocean for seals, penguins and fish.
As hundreds of whales feed, industrial krill super trawlers move in – massive vessels from China, Norway and Ukraine. These ships haul in enormous quantities of krill, often dragging their massive nets through pods of whales, seals and rafts of penguins.
Every time someone buys a krill supplement, they’re supporting the destruction of Antarctica. It has to stop. Sea Shepherd
