The Male of the Species Is More Female Than the Female

[marmar]

from Grist:



The Male of the Species Is More Female Than the Female
California sewage makes for femme fish, says study

Posted at 3:18 PM on 22 Feb 2008
Chemicals in southern California wastewater are sneaking past sewage-treatment plants and into the ocean, where they can seriously wack out fishy hormone levels, according to preliminary research. Flame retardants, PCBs, residue from long-banned pesticide DDT, and other chemicals from pills and beauty products have all showed up in the water, via human pee. An ongoing study of a flatfish called the hornyhead turbot (hee hee) finds that some males of the species have abnormally high levels of estrogen, while one hearty male had actually produced eggs. Activists urge that treatment plants be upgraded to catch more chemicals.

source: Los Angeles Times

http://www.grist.org/news/2008/02/22/hornyhead/

[Javaman]

1. metro sexual fish. nt

[hunter]

2. Is there anything worse than a pregnant man?

OMG, complain, complain, complain... The Super Bowl is the worst, because they can't drink beer. You'd almost be justified doing their c-sections without anesthesia -- tie the rat down and listen to him scream.

And there is nothing quite so obnoxious as some rude guy at the gym who's nursing kids at home, waving his breasts around yelling "Ha ha! Look at this!" and squirting milk at people, like everyone should admire his man-boobs.

The big corporations told us there was nothing wrong with all these chemicals in the water, but they were wrong.






:P

[GreenPartyVoter]

4. *snarf*

[Systematic Chaos]

3. Whatever you do, don't tell those poor fish

to go fuck themselves.

:evilgrin: