We're becoming women !

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/040709/80/exocm.html

The above is a news item stating that fish are becoming more feminine due to oestrogen and other such stuff coming from the sewers.

This was the subject of quite a detailed Horizon TV programme about 15 years ago about the above , but with more emphasis on how it was affecting human beings. Basically, it was able to show that penis sizes have dropped over the last 50 years and fertility has also declined.

It then went on to show that this phenomenon was not due to hormones in the water , but was due to an additive that was used in making plastic bottles. It was something like nonanol or maybe decanol if I remember correctly.

I had assumed that because there was no major outcry after this programme that companies had stopped this chemical [I think it was/is used as a stabiliser] before the pogramme had appeared.

Looks like I was wrong. Oh , one of the nastier health bits is that its used to make bottles that mineral water is stored in - so you cant escape that way !

Oops, I am starting to get very worried about the world's health - see next few blogs .........