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December 21, 2004

Male Fish Growing Eggs

I am horrified by the following story. Where is the outrage at combinations of pollutants that are making environmental conditions inconducive to life? Humanity and other life are awash in a toxic cocktail of manmade chemicals, tet another indication of impending ecocide.

Male Fish Growing Eggs Found in Potomac

Male fish that are growing eggs have been found in the Potomac River near Sharpsburg, a sign that a little-understood type of pollution is spreading downstream from West Virginia, a federal scientist says. The so-called intersex abnormality may be caused by pollutants from sewage plants, feedlots and factories that can interfere with animals' hormone systems...