Some problematic estrogen mimics.....
....scientists found 11 out of 82 male hornyhead turbot collected off the Southern California coast had small eggs growing in their testes.
Now that is scary!
To: blam; Carry_Okie; Chanticleer; ClearCase_guy; cogitator; CollegeRepublican; ...
ECO-PING
FReepmail me to be added or removed to the ECO-PING list!
2 posted on
11/28/2005 6:50:40 AM PST by
GreenFreeper
(Not blind opposition to progress, but opposition to blind progress)
To: GreenFreeper
I wonder what the estrogen levels are in the San Francisco drinking water? That might explain a lot...
3 posted on
11/28/2005 6:50:45 AM PST by
TommyDale
To: GreenFreeper
the other thing that is scary is all of the soy products that we eat all the time.
4 posted on
11/28/2005 6:51:08 AM PST by
Mercat
(God loves us where He finds us.)
To: wagglebee; Coleus
5 posted on
11/28/2005 6:52:40 AM PST by
Calpernia
(Breederville.com)
To: Maximus of Texas; pissant
Hornyhead Turbot ping!
To: GreenFreeper
"the hornyhead turbot, which feeds on animals in the sediment, could be ingesting estrogen."
Heh.
10 posted on
11/28/2005 7:00:32 AM PST by
EggsAckley
("The pump don't work 'cause the vandals took the handle")
To: Millee
Can you ping your list for the Hornyhead Turbot?
To: GreenFreeper
Uhh-Oh. Better check SF water
15 posted on
11/28/2005 7:22:04 AM PST by
varyouga
(We Are...PENN STATE!)
To: GreenFreeper
....scientists found 11 out of 82 male hornyhead turbot collected off the Southern California coast had small eggs growing in their testes. Not necessarily. Do these scientists have a historic baseline for the normal condition of hornyhead turbot indicating that this condition is unusual for that species?
Consider this:
Of the vertebrates in the animal kingdom, sex determination is usually a fixed characteristic in terms of life history. Interestingly, there are a few organisms for whom sex is a plastic condition, often determined by a combination of internal and external signals. One such group of organisms which follows this trend are the tropical teleosts: the conspicuous coloful fish inhabiting coral reefs.Source
It would seem sexual plasticity, or at least its potential, may not be uncommon in fish. This could well be more eco-fear-mongering.
17 posted on
11/28/2005 8:01:42 AM PST by
Carry_Okie
(The environment is too complex and too important to manage by central planning.)
To: GreenFreeper
It's very difficult to remove them, and it would come at an enormous public cost," he said. "But it may be something that people someday might want to look at." TRANSLATION: Another socialist eco-terror tactic to drive up the cost of living and cripple the economy of despised America.
21 posted on
11/28/2005 9:06:49 AM PST by
TexasRepublic
(BALLISTIC CATHARSIS: perforating uncooperative objects with chunks of lead)
To: GreenFreeper
Further contributing to feminization, the chemical fertilizer DDT acts like estrogen, he said.I always thought that DDT was a pesticide, not a fertilizer.
To: GreenFreeper
Back in the early 90's, I went out on a research boat to study the fish living around the outfalls from the Los Angeles Sewage Treatment facility near LA Harbor. The fish they brought up were full of lesions. It was pretty gross. I remember some of the fish were this type of fish. I did this while completing my degree at Long Beach State. I wonder if this was part of the study.
I was just in the class to satisfy my science requirements.
33 posted on
11/29/2005 10:45:06 AM PST by
OC_Steve
To: GreenFreeper
male hornyhead find feminine side, one would think the radical feminists would be estatic.
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