I am an animal lover, and it turns my stomach every time I turn on the news and see an oil-coated pelican, or a rescued baby turtle, innocently affected by the BP oil spill. I have committed to never buy another BP brand as long as I live.
I am very concerned about what this spill poses personally for all of the readers of this blog. You all need omega-3 fatty acids, the kind that come from seafood, for your brain health and hormone balance. Without healthy oceans, there simply cannot be healthy humans. Menhaden, a huge source of fish oil, has been significantly affected. Its season opened just as the oil spill started. Omega Protein Corporation, the world's largest manufacturer of fish oil, fishes largely out of the Gulf. They've stated that they'll simply move their boats and there isn't a short term issue, but as the problem persists…the long term impact of such a disaster begins to become more and more frightening.
I encourage all of you to take this issue personally. The obvious boycott would be BP products for your car.
There's another one, a pretty big one, directly related to each and every one of us. Cans. Aluminum cans. The kind we crack open when we Jones for a soda. The primary manufacturer of these sodas is a division of BP.
Maybe, if you haven't been able to stop drinking the sodas, even when we've blogged about the caffeine and the sugar and the high fructose corn syrup and the artificial sweeteners…you can do it if you know the company who makes the cans they come in is chipping away at the integrity of the fragile environment your hormones need to live in.
It's a smple act, but with 1 in 10 women on the planet living with PCOS, if they banded together and collectively put the cans down, imagine what message that could send.
The pelican who's watching over this post…on behalf of his endangered pals, thanks you for your consideration.
Click here for a link to a list of products and services related to BP.