Corporations plunder the Antarctic for krill oil suppliments

What do people take krill oil for anyway? Wouldn't it be better to simply have a balanced diet? You can get into all sorts of trouble with some of these supplements that people take putting way too much this and that vitamins into your body. I read recently that Vitamin A is really bad for your liver, as well as too much iron.

Anyway now that they stopped slaughtering whales down there the corporations are going after the Krill, depleting their numbers by 80% the last few decades. It affects everything as it's a vital part of the food chain.

After depleting many of the world’s oceans of their fi sh, companies are now going after what’s left at the bottom of the food chain – the krill, a tiny crustacean that is the heart of the Antarctic ecosystem and feed its penguins, seals and whales. Using giant industrial factory-ships, seafood compa- nies are literally vacuuming the oceans by sucking up the krill that other marine creatures depend on. Simultaneously, Antarctic ice is melting due to climate change, depleting the krill’s ice algae food source. The end result is that since the 1970s, the krill population has already dropped by 80%. In turn, research now shows that Antarctic penguin populations, which depend on krill, have collapsed by 50% in studied colonies over the last 30 years. 

With climate change accelerating, pressure will relentlessly increase on this delicate wildlife ecosystem. Plundering krill in an already-threatened ecosystem is reckless in the extreme. 

This exploitation is ultimately dependent on a market for krill-based products. Currently, this route to market is provided by a number of major retailers, including Walmart, Target, CVS, and Walgreen’s. These companies continue to sell krill products despite clear contradictions with their own sustainability commitments. 

Our message to these companies is simple: Stop supporting the dangerous exploitation of Antarctic krill. Take the krill off your shelves, and leave it for the penguins and the Antarctic ecosystem. PDF report

You can contribute to the cause here if you so desire.