Fish and Sexual Deformities
The Environmental Protection Agency defines an endocrine disrupter as "an external agent that interferes in some way with the role of natural hormones in the body." Fish living downstream from sewage-treatment plants in Denver and Boulder are experiencing sexual deformities.
The cause? It appears the chemical stew we send down our drains and toilets - cleaning products, cosmetics, medicine and hormone-laced human waste - is to blame and that the chemicals are disrupting the endocrine systems of the fish.
Apparently, some fish have both male and female organs.
This can't be good.
That is just freakin' weird. It's like one big circle, eventually everything comes back around.
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