His infamous statement “chemicals in the water that turn the freaking frogs gay” may have been a corruption of the discovery that sewage runoff was feminizing fish because of the estradiol in urine from women on birth control, and other endocrine disrupting chemicals newly found in rivers from human sources.
Yeah, I’ve had some friends in aquaculture and it’s a huge deal and has been for a long time. The bleaching of paper causes it too. He just went on a rant and said it all wrong.
His infamous statement “chemicals in the water that turn the freaking frogs gay” may have been a corruption of the discovery that sewage runoff was feminizing fish because of the estradiol in urine from women on birth control, and other endocrine disrupting chemicals newly found in rivers from human sources.
Yeah, I’ve had some friends in aquaculture and it’s a huge deal and has been for a long time. The bleaching of paper causes it too. He just went on a rant and said it all wrong.
Also, Atrazine (a pesticide that contaminates water sources) turns the friggin frogs trans.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2842049/