Hmmm...even without The Pill humans must dump tons of hormones into the environment. And add to that animals and their urine, and it adds up to a large number!
Then there are all the insects dumping pheromones into the air, and people emit pheromones too, as do most animals.
Plants use ethylene gas as a hormone and as communications.
Life really must mess up Earth!
I’d like to read some papers on just how much BC hormone is excreted in human female urine and what it’s environmental fate is, before I decide if this is a problem.
Any of you researchers find some backup data to refute or prove this claim?
This issue with contraceptives is that the hormones are synthetic. The synthetic version of oesterone is “ethinyl oestradiol” and has been found in male river fish to wreak havoc his (ahem) male-ness.
Likewise, the synthetic version of progesterone is called progestin and is a major player in breast cancer.
“I’d like to read some papers on just how much BC hormone is excreted in human female urine and what it’s environmental fate is, before I decide if this is a problem.”
The ‘problem is easily solved by passing another set of laws to reduce female urination. I hereby humbly suggest a new agency to make sure that all public facilities havemore stalls in male than female bathrooms.
Further, a tax shall be passed upon all females who urinate. Said tax shall be based upon estimated volume and frequency. The Obamasiah will appoint disabled, black lesbians to all positions created in the new Federal Agency which will be called Reduction In P*ssing Offenses (RIP OFF).
Such a tax could be adjusted by race, ethnicity, ad nauseam (no pun intended) to achieve whatever financial, political, and possibly even environmental goals defined in the words written in stone, on the tablets brought down from Mount Washington by the Obamasiah.
For the lurking Liberal and all to many recent public school graduates /s off.
I think the problem is the synthetics.