Male Bass in Many US Rivers Feminized, Study Finds.

[elleng]

Government scientists figure that one out of five male black bass in American river basins have egg cells growing inside their sexual organs, a sign of how widespread fish feminizing has become.

The findings come from the U.S. Geological Survey in its first comprehensive examination of intersex fish in America, a problem linked to women's birth control pills and other hormone treatments that seep into rivers. Sporadic reports of feminized fish have been reported for a few years.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/09/14/science/AP-US-SCI-Intersex-Fish.html

[JohnnyLib2]

1. OMG, don't let Limbaugh find out!

:evilgrin:

[pnwmom]

2. And if it's happening to fish . . . . n/t

[Mimosa]

3. That and estriadols in dairy products, meats, etc...

That and estriadols in dairy products, meats, etc...have made males softer and men, women and children fatter IMO. I've been paying attention to the issue for nearly 30 years. It's not just because people in the USA and the UK supposedly have more food available that we are much larger than our ancestors. There was a recent article comparing sizes of people in the 1950s to people now in the Telegraph or some other Brit paper which supports the hormone theory.