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January 15

omega 3 containing seafoods

what seafood contains omega 3s? 220.240.248.109 (talk) 05:59, 15 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

See Omega-3_fatty_acid#Dietary_sources. Shantavira|^{feed me} 09:11, 15 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

See also flax seed oil. You don’t need to consume animals to get a good dose of omega-3. I get all of my omegas from plants. Viriditas (talk) 09:48, 15 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Um, it isn't necessary to kill plants just to get your Omega-3s. There's plenty available from, say, fish. DOR (HK) (talk) 16:28, 15 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

You'd rather kill animals than plants? ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 18:25, 15 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Plants provide oxygen, and animals methane. Which would you rather inhale? DOR (HK) (talk) 17:19, 18 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Another cool thing about plants, is that if you like to garden, then you know you don’t have to kill plants to eat them. The popularity and resurgence of small-scale hydroponic gardening for salad greens, for example, is teaching more people about this. There’s even some plants you can grow that can go through vegetative and flower phases without ever having to be killed. Fruit trees are a great example of this. Viriditas (talk) 19:54, 15 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe biological scientists could develop a fish with a spigot, so you could draw off some of its oil without killing it. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 20:30, 15 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Due to little to no regulations (and the discredited economic philosophy of free market fundamentalism which is destroying nature), the most popular fish are severely overfished and in decline by 90% since 1950. Cod, as you are likely aware of, has declined by 99%. In 2023, we no longer have the luxury of allowing this kind of malfeasance to continue. Viriditas (talk) 21:22, 15 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

So Viriditas, apart from not answering the question and accusing everyone who eats fish of malfeasance, what do you think the RefDesks are for? DuncanHill (talk) 21:53, 15 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The question was answered above in the initial link to dietary sources. I expanded on the question, explaining that you don’t need to ingest seafood for omega-3. I also explained why it is important to limit our intake of seafood, which explains the alternative choice. The malfeasance refers to overfishing by companies, not to consumers. Any other questions? Viriditas (talk) 21:58, 15 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

It is possible, as a consumer, to choose seafood from sustainable sources, however. As with anything, there are sustainable ways to produce consumer-grade fish and there are wasteful ways to do so. Googling "sustainable seafood" brings up lots of information. I won't link to anything specific since I don't want to introduce bias, but I encourage anyone interested in consuming seafood to do some reading on how to do so responsibly. --Jayron 32 19:37, 19 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Be that as it may, I'm fairly sure you have to kill flax seeds to extract flax seed oil in any useful way. Nil Einne (talk) 14:44, 17 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Are omega 3s in all seafoods or only some? 220.240.248.109 (talk) 01:09, 17 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Algae and seaweed are rich in omega-3, and so are the seacritters that feed on these, and those that feed on these feeders, and so on, up the food chain. So one can expect seafood to contain some omega-3 fatty acids. However, some fish are lean; they have little fat, and even if the relative omega-3 level is high, the net amount may be low. Cod liver is fatty and high in omega-3, but cod meat, which is what people usually consume when they have cod for dinner, is not. For farmed fish, such as most tilapia on the market, it also depends on what they are fed. The difference between sardines and tilapia is more than an order of magnitude. --Lambiam 15:11, 17 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Rating of clans in the game World in Conflict

Good afternoon. Where can I find the world ranking of clans in the game World in Conflict? Thanks in advance. Vyacheslav84 (talk) 16:07, 15 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I'd suggest the Wikipedia:Reference desk/Entertainment. DOR (HK) (talk) 17:21, 18 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]