Contraceptives and the environment

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The law of unintended consequences strikes again!

Estrogens are turning up in waterways and affecting the ability of fish to reproduce. Male fish aquire female characteristics. It’s been attributed to the large amount of female hormones being excreted in urine, and largely not affected by municipal waste treatment.

seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/124939_estrogen04.html
cnn.com/2003/TECH/science/11/14/coolsc.frogs.fish/index.html

For some reason the environmental lobby is not too vocal about this. I think as stewards of creation, and eaters of fish, we ought to be concerned about the reproductive health of our scaly friends.
 
I love how the solution is to create expensive complicated filter systems… rather than not using the pills, which would never even be considered. Talk about attacking the symptom rather than the disease.
 
RachelB said:
I love how the solution is to create expensive complicated filter systems… rather than not using the pills, which would never even be considered. Talk about attacking the symptom rather than the disease.
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More technology is always the answer to clean up the messes we make with technology!
 
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For some reason the environmental lobby is not too vocal about this. I think as stewards of creation, and eaters of fish, we ought to be concerned about the reproductive health of our scaly friends.
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I always laugh when women very carefully avoid foods with additives, or meat with hormones, or vegetables with tiny residues of pesticides, and then go and swallow a powerful contraceptive pill. Quite often they are shocked when you point this out.
 
I wonder how this is affecting the sexual development of humans!!!:eek: Do home filters remove these hormones, I wonder?
 
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I wonder how this is affecting the sexual development of humans!!!:eek: Do home filters remove these hormones, I wonder?
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I also wonder about the low but detectable levels of Prozac that turn up in lakes & rivers and such. I wonder if it affects our mood.
 
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