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Freaky fish. And is that all?

Believe me, guys: you do not want eggs in your testicles.

1 posted on 04/22/2008 9:57:42 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o
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ping


2 posted on 04/22/2008 10:03:09 AM PDT by Calpernia (Hunters Rangers - Raising the Bar of Integrity http://www.barofintegrity.us)
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Freaky Ping.


3 posted on 04/22/2008 10:07:11 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Live and let live.)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

The Truths Shall Set You Free
By Iain Murray

YET LIBERALS DON’T always demand coercive regulations in the name of environmental protection, if it doesn’t suit them. For example, today, synthetic estrogen is adversely affecting river and lake fish populations.

Synthetic estrogen comes from birth control pills in vast amounts, yet is ignored by activists who instead call for controls on chemicals present in much smaller amounts that have much less effect. Why? One environmental activist called it a “personal freedom issue” — as if liberals never call for restrictions on those.

http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=13089


4 posted on 04/22/2008 10:07:28 AM PDT by Para-Ord.45
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To: Mrs. Don-o
Well, many species of fish are hermaphroditic and always have been (anybody who's kept guppies, swordtails, or platys knows that).

I'd like to see the numbers on hermaphroditic bass and whether this has occurred historically.

I mean, we KNOW how honest the popular "science" is on global warming, and so forth.

5 posted on 04/22/2008 10:07:40 AM PDT by AnAmericanMother ( ((Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment))))
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To: Mrs. Don-o

“guys: you do not want eggs in your testicles.”

I thought scrambled eggs and bull balls were popular out West????


8 posted on 04/22/2008 10:25:37 AM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ("Don't touch that thing")
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To: Mrs. Don-o
the environment is more a tool for advancing favored policies than a real cause in itself.

Nice to see in print what I've been telling people for a long time. We mess with God's creation and there is consequences.

9 posted on 04/22/2008 10:30:21 AM PDT by stevio (Crunchy Con - God, guns, guts, and organically grown crunchy nuts.)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

“downstream from Washington, D.C., found large-mouth bass that in most respects were males, but who had eggs in their sexual organs.”

This explains a lot. We elect Republican but after they’ve been in Washington a while they all become pu**ies.


10 posted on 04/22/2008 10:31:58 AM PDT by live+let_live
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To: Mrs. Don-o

thanks, bfl


11 posted on 04/22/2008 10:38:10 AM PDT by neverdem (I'm praying for a Divine Intervention.)
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To: Mrs. Don-o
Nobody talks about this for the same reason why they don't talk about the health effects of birth control pills and why they complain about disposable diapers but not disposable feminine hygiene products, even though they are made of similar material.
12 posted on 04/22/2008 10:56:05 AM PDT by Question_Assumptions
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Intersex.....is an unfortunate condition.....occurs when fish of one sex also exhibit sexual characteristics of the other sex.

Hmmmm.......

20 posted on 04/22/2008 1:23:07 PM PDT by OB1kNOb ("We like Mr. Obama and we hope he will win the election." - Ahmed Yousef, Hamas PM advisor)
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To: Mrs. Don-o
1, The article doesn't answer the question: If the estrogen in waste-water comes from the urine of women who take birth control pills, why wouldn't all young healthy women release estrogen in their urine?

2. What about all the older women taking estrogen supplements? (This number is lower now.) Does the author want to ban this too?

3. There are now a number of products for both men and women that involve hormones applied to the skin. In this case the hormone can be washed directly into the sewer system without even being processed through the body.

22 posted on 04/22/2008 1:43:10 PM PDT by wideminded
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Morning-after abortion pills aren’t pollutants. They are safe and effective. Carbon dioxide is the real pollutant. The government told me so.


23 posted on 04/22/2008 1:43:28 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
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To: Mrs. Don-o

I believe cross-species estrogens and hormones can also be a problem. The drug Premarin has warnings about taking it during pregnancy. However, Premarin is completely natural,coming from pregnant mares. One estrogen in particular, is not found in the human metabolic pathway, that estrogen being estrone. Estrone is a very potent estrogen.

The reason, estrone and some of the other estrogens, in Premarin may be a problem for the fetus, is they do not bind to the human alpha fetal proteins. The fetal alpha proteins do bind to the maternal estrogens, preventing them from having deleterious effects on the fetus. I believe the exogenous hormones may well suppress the development of the pituitary and the hypothalamus, during gestationl. That would explain atypical sexual development.

This would apply to both natural (cross-species) and synthetic estrogens. Other chemicals that are of concern are progesterones, some of them will act as potent androgen blockers. Example: Cyproterone acetate, which is used as treatment for female hirsutism in europe. It is known to cause deformities in genital development in the fetus. It is also known to influence the sexual behavior of rats, when administered at the right period during gestation in rats. Presumably, it would also affect the sexual behavior in human males, making their behavior more feminine.

Other androgen blockers of concer would be finasteride, and similar drugs used to treat male pattern baldness.

Now, testosterone exposure to the fetus will tend to masculinize girl fetuses. Sometimes, the testoterone comes from the fetus itself. In the condition,known as Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia, there is a metabolic error that does not allow the adrenal gland to convert testosterone into cortisol. The end result is testosterone accumulates in the fetus, producing masculinization of the genitals and masculinizaiton of behavior patterns.


27 posted on 04/22/2008 6:12:24 PM PDT by punster
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Thanks neverdem.


30 posted on 04/23/2008 9:11:20 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_____________________Profile updated Saturday, March 29, 2008)
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To: Mrs. Don-o
We all need to do our share in action or at least by spreading the word to as many as possible regarding the sad reality regarding the effects of such unnatural means of contraception. This is one of the main factors that I am proud of supporting the use of chemical free contraceptive like a reliable fertility monitor.
34 posted on 07/30/2009 12:04:50 AM PDT by LadyComp
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