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Keep Shark Liver Oil Out of Beauty Products!
Target: Susan M. Lark, M.D.
Sponsored by: Oceana
Sponsored by: Oceana
Dr. Susan Lark, a popular Internet physician, promotes squalane - an ingredient found in shark liver oil - for its ability to help skin "maintain its moisture and elasticity." But squalane can be obtained from a much more abundant source: olives.
Deep-sea sharks are some of the most vulnerable sharks in the world. They typically grow slowly, mature late in life and have only a few young during their long lives. As a result, deep-sea shark populations are at extreme risk from exploitation and recover very slowly.
Tell Dr. Lark she ought to leave deep-sea sharks alone. The health - and beauty - of our oceans depends on it.
Deep-sea sharks are some of the most vulnerable sharks in the world. They typically grow slowly, mature late in life and have only a few young during their long lives. As a result, deep-sea shark populations are at extreme risk from exploitation and recover very slowly.
Tell Dr. Lark she ought to leave deep-sea sharks alone. The health - and beauty - of our oceans depends on it.
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I believe we can have healthy skin without doing damage to our oceans.
I believe we can have healthy skin without doing damage to our oceans.
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Beauty has its price, but not when it comes to damaging priceless sea life!!! Please look for and consider using alternative ingredients.
Beauty has its price, but not when it comes to damaging priceless sea life!!! Please look for and consider using alternative ingredients.
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J Roberts, Oregon
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Charles Ayers, Pennsylvania
Leave our "Wild Life" alone! enough is enough.
Leave our "Wild Life" alone! enough is enough.
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Laura Goncalves, Florida
Dear Dr. Lark, I am writing to you because I am deeply concerned about your promotion of beauty products containing squalane, which comes from deep-sea sharks. These sharks are some of the most vulnerable sharks in the world. They typically grow slowly, mature late in life and have only a few young during their long lives. As a result, deep sea shark populations are at extreme risk from exploitation and recover very slowly. You claim this product is okay because the sharks are caught as bycatch in the orange roughy fishery. What you fail to note is that to catch orange roughy heavy trawl gear is pulled over seamounts - underwater mountains teeming with fish, deep sea corals, and large sponges – scooping up everything in its path. This dirty fishing practice has decimated the populations of orange roughy, deep sea sharks and other species while damaging corals that are thousands of years old. That's why virtually all "safe seafood guides" beg consumers to avoid eating orange roughy altogether. The oceans would be a healthier place without orange roughy fisheries
Dear Dr. Lark, I am writing to you because I am deeply concerned about your promotion of beauty products containing squalane, which comes from deep-sea sharks. These sharks are some of the most vulnerable sharks in the world. They typically grow slowly, mature late in life and have only a few young during their long lives. As a result, deep sea shark populations are at extreme risk from exploitation and recover very slowly. You claim this product is okay because the sharks are caught as bycatch in the orange roughy fishery. What you fail to note is that to catch orange roughy heavy trawl gear is pulled over seamounts - underwater mountains teeming with fish, deep sea corals, and large sponges – scooping up everything in its path. This dirty fishing practice has decimated the populations of orange roughy, deep sea sharks and other species while damaging corals that are thousands of years old. That's why virtually all "safe seafood guides" beg consumers to avoid eating orange roughy altogether. The oceans would be a healthier place without orange roughy fisheries
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