Water Water Everywhere But Not a Drop to Drink
One of our most challenging and scary environmental problems is the safety of our water supply. People are flushing so many drugs down the toilet – from the actual pills to the residue in urine – that drinking tap water often means you’re getting a slight homeopathic dose of anti-depressants. Now we have pollutants in the water creating mutant fish and “intersex” fish (meaning, what should be male fish now turning into females):
So, where do these estrogen enhancers that are creating intersex fish come from? Seems there are a wide variety of sources, from materials used in agriculture and industry to women’s urine flushed down the toilet, with the strongest dose from women taking estrogen pills. (Stephen Colbert recently suggested that women now just “have to hold it.”)
Estrogen disruptors appear to have their strongest impact on the developing male fetus. Nicolas Kristof is taking the big leap (based on real data summarized by the National Wildlife Service) by suggesting that sexual organs of human boys are already trending towards “intersex.”
Read more here…scary!
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