Your Fish Makes A Tasty Lipstick/Paint/Buttery Spread

Today’s Times op-ed on menhaden and the insane Omega-3 fish oil industry is pretty amazing. The practitioner of mass overfishing of the algae-chugging fish called menhaden is Omega Protein, a 40-boat company out of Houston that fishes in North Carolina and Virginia and further ashore, and that processes in Louisiana, Mississippi and Virginia. Their board of directors is fascinating as well, including as it does an all-male cast of oil industry execs, insurance brokers, the former VP of Equus Capital Management and the “professor of Swine Nutrition at the University of Missouri.” Also, you are probably spreading menhaden on your lips, ladies.