those #$@! cowmones

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Yes, I know fish and people are different--but after reading this,

I've never been gladder to have gone through menopause as a

vegetarian. Yeesh!

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ALEXANDRIA, Va. (UPI) -- Hormones leaking into streams from U.S. cattle

feedlots are altering the sexual characteristics of wild fish, a St.

Mary's

College of Maryland study said. The scientists examined minnows in

three streams that flow into Nebraska's Elkhorn River, and their

findings showed " significant alterations in the reproductive biology "

of fish immediately downstream from a large Nebraska cattle feedlot.

 

The report, published in the online version of the journal Environmental

Health Perspectives, said the researchers do not know whether the

damage was caused by natural hormones in cattle or by synthetic ones

administered to the animals. The study said the male fish had one-third

less testosterone and their testes were about half as big as those of

unexposed fish upstream. The female fish had about 20 percent less

estrogen and 45 percent more testosterone than females from the

uncontaminated stream.

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