💚 Pure and unprocessed Omega 3 Daily Algae oil has all the goodness of salmon oil without the actual fish and offers the perfect solution to what you are about to read below!!
Our dogs and cats should never have the addition of any fish products at all in their foods as they are land mammals and studies have shown that pet foods containing high levels of fish products, can be harmful with the levels of the heavy metals such as Arsenic, Cadmium, Mercury and Lead found in their fur and kidneys in cats (Alborough et al 2020)!!
The use of salmon oil in our dogs and cats should also be controlled and it isn't! Fish farms both in Scotland and Norway and further abroad are highly concentrated (severe welfare issues too!!) of fish kept in 'nets' that float near seabeds. (Read here about the pain felt by fish that should not be underestimated)
As they are so highly stressed as salmon would normally swim for miles (upstream), and are kept in cages by their thousands, bacteria, parasites and fungi are frequent so they are fed a generous cocktail of antibiotic, antifungal, growth hormone promoters, antiparasitics and fake astaxanthin to make that pink (yes you read that right - made in a laboratory to give them pink flesh) as Astaxanthin that naturally occurs in microalgae and that krill eat is too expensive for the billion pound salmon industry!
Why is salmon oil for us and our pets so highly processed?
Like all fish oils, that are heavily contaminated with environmental pollutants, including microplastics, harmful heavy metals such as lead and arsenic, and even to antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteria; it is SO important that for our health and the health of our dogs and cats, that they undergo 'processing and purification' - at least 5 or 6 times to remove these potential toxins!
Shocking truth behind the salmon industry
What of the health impact of eating farmed salmon?
Dr Shireen Kassam, director of Plant-Based Health Professionals UK is quoted as saying. “Farmed salmon does not deserve to be considered a health food,” she said. “Fish has conventionally been considered a healthy component of a diet, mainly because it is a source of long chain Omega 3 fat. However, this does not consider the fact that farmed salmon now contains more saturated fat than wild fish, and lower amounts of Omega 3 fats”.
“In addition,” said Dr Kassam, “[farmed salmon] accumulates and exposes people to environmental pollutants, including microplastics, and to antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteria. All of these issues are beginning to raise concerns about the potential for negative impacts on health.” (for us and our dogs and cats)
Independent analysis shows that salmon farming adds about £1 billion a year to Scotland’s economy and is also the UK’s largest food export, worth £844 million in 2025.
Whatever the figures, many top British chefs such as Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall are taking industrially farmed fish off the table. The River Cottage, TV presenter and food writer told the Express: “I don’t use industrially farmed salmon at home or on our menu at River Cottage because I’m simply not confident it’s a sustainable product.
“The heavy use of prophylactic chemicals to treat these highly stressed fish; the pollution of the local marine environment from their faeces; and the unsustainable harvesting of wild fish to make the fish feed – it’s a triple whammy of environmental problems that are still a long way from being solved.”
What is the solution for the Scottish economy?
What a perfect solution that the Scottish government has backed MiAlgae's new factory to produce fish-free Omega 3 from whisky waste - it makes such perfect sense as whisky is such a huge industry in Scotland and there is nothing better than upcycling....and contrasts so perfectly with non-sustainable and unethical salmon farming to keep the Scottish economy booming ethically!
What is the perfect solution for our dogs and cats?
What about the krill fishing industry - how harmful is it?
Fish eat krill and krill eat algae rich in Omega 3 and antioxidants that make the krill pink and the salmon meat pink......but why illegally harvest the krill when the nutrient rich Omega 3 in krill and antioxidants can be found in their pure source as microalgae grown and harvested sustainably on land?!
We have included the bright pink microalgae Astaxanthin in our Omega 3 Daily 🙌 We absolutely want an ingredient that is not found in highly processed salmon oil, but that is from pure microalgae and has an incredibly high Antioxidant level as shown below
