My hometown's toothy predators used to have a lot to smile about. They were happy, healthy, and up until now, blissfully unaware of the right-wing paternalistic theocracy:
Sharks in one Florida river are getting a dose of human medicine, and now scientists want to know if it's a prescription for trouble. Scientists recently found traces of prescription antidepressants, cholesterol-lowering drugs and synthetic estrogens in the blood of young bull sharks in the Caloosahatchee River on Florida's southwest Gulf Coast.
The serpent has entered the garden in the form of agenda-driven powers-that-be and their decision to stick their noses in somebody else's bedroom and "monitor" the chemical intake, particularly prescription birth control, of these free-spirited creatures.
The war for reproductive freedom is never really over, is it?
Posted by floridacracker at June 3, 2007 02:07 PMI read quite a while back about a certain fish decline in Lake Tahoe. Scientist found that this particular fish had developed male fish with female traits. It also had a large quantity of hormones/chemicals found in birth control pills. The conclusion was a cause effect relationship with womens' urine in the water system.
There will be things growing breasts in the gulf.
Wait a minute. In Florida you have sharks in the rivers?
Posted by: Bad Penny at June 4, 2007 02:33 PM