Posted on 06/18/2014 4:33:09 PM PDT by Renfield
A strange catastrophe struck Spain's pig farmers in the spring of 2010. On 41 farms across the country—each home to between 800 and 3,000 pigs—many sows suddenly ceased bearing young.
On some farms, all the sows stopped reproducing. On others, those that did become pregnant produced smaller litters.
When investigators examined the sows and the semen that had been used to artificially inseminate them—it had been collected from different boar studs and refrigerated—they couldn't find anything wrong. The sperm cells weren't misshapen. None of the sows were diseased. No microbes or fungal toxins were detected in their feed or water.
Only one factor was common to all the farms and studs: The plastic bags used for semen storage all came from the same place.....
(Excerpt) Read more at news.nationalgeographic.com ...
Combine the effects of plastics with the increased consumption of Soy.
http://www.menshealth.com/nutrition/soys-negative-effects
Me too.
IN the meantime, don’t store your sperm in plastic bags.
I guess that rules out condoms.
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0055387
“Plastics Derived Endocrine Disruptors (BPA, DEHP and DBP) Induce Epigenetic Transgenerational Inheritance of Obesity, Reproductive Disease and Sperm Epimutations “
the lonely lives of investigators.
“Magapor had purchased the semen storage bags from a Chinese manufacturer. When the company switched to a different bag producer, the Spanish pigs’ fertility returned to normal.”
The money quote.
Yeah nothing like injecting your test subject with multi thousands of times a dose age to ‘prove’ that something is bad. Another bit of science paid for most likely by tax payers. Next thing you know they will want to ban salt....
Actually, the best ‘results’ came from the low level dose over an extended period of time. That’s the dose that had the biggest epigenetic effects in subsequent generations.
We can’t use metals or stone, because that involves mining and quarrying. We can’t use wood, because that involves cutting trees. We can’t build dams, because that disrupts spawning. We can’t build nuclear plants, because they create radioactive waste. We can’t use fossil fuels, because they are not sustainable. We can’t use plastics, because they derive from fossil fuels. Therefore, we need to kill six billion people. /s
I would commit suicide before I would eat soy!
Oh my. Fascinating. And reminds me of the rising price of pork products in the US.
Infertility in humans is caused by confusing entrance A with exit B.
It costs far too much coin to derive the proper links to the conclusion. Anyway, they just know it has to be right, and then run with it. Much like AGW.
Money quote is right; you beat me to it. I think only 2% actually read the linked articles. I’m sometimes of that 2%, depending on my schedule.
Guilty as charged...
Right? Hmmm. Let's see. It's not happened before, they buy from a Chinese manufacturer and it's now happening. Well, golly gee!
It’s hard to take this article seriously. BPA has been repeatedly proven to be safe.
I guess some people need something to be afraid of.
No WONDER the Chinese have to exterminate every endangered species on earth to allow them to get it up-—they’re fertility-compromised because of their cheaply made plastic bags.
and has nothing to do with human consumption....like banning saccharin and the whole Tab fiasco. “The soda later garnered negative publicity when scientists speculated that its main sweetener, sodium saccharin, was a potential animal carcinogen.[4] These studies, conducted on lab rats, resulted in mandatory warning labels on the soda throughout the late 1970s and 1980s. In recent years, the studies asserting saccharin’s carcinogenic effects have been largely debunked. Recent studies found the initial findings to be flawed and U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) revoked the mandatory health labels in 2000,[4] deeming no correlation between saccharin and cancer in humans”
Got it
Go find some high school yearbooks from the 1920’s. Preferably a rural area. Note the square jaws and 5 o’clock shadow on the senior boys. This was my grandfather’s generation. They all had deep resonant voices.
Now, look at the same HS yearbook from the year 2014. The senior boys all look like overgrown 13yr olds who haven’t, largely, hit puberty yet. They have effeminate sloped jawlines and ‘sweet’ voices. The square jaws are on the senior girls. I’m sure this is because they just weren’t spanked enough...
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