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Subject: "Domesticating" the Wild (Meaning FREE) Human Animal by "Gelding"
"When the EU drew up its first comprehensive
controls on chemicals?two years ago, it exempted
'gender-benders.'?? Britain, under Tony Blair's
leadership, was responsible for this exemption.? Confidential documents
show that it obediently acted to water down the controls?after [orders]
from the Bush administration -- putting the interests of U.S. corporations
above
the health of British children."
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Singing starlings ... and why thousands of babies who should have been boys
are being born as girls
By GEOFFREY LEAN
London Daily Mail, 27 February 2008
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=521535&in_page_id=1770
Next time you hear a starling sing, stop and listen hard. It may well be
warning of a peril that endangers the whole world of nature - and the very
future of the human race itself.
Because?scientists have found that gender-bender
<estrogen-mimetic>?chemicals -- increasingly contaminating the
environment, our food, our water and our bodies -- are having a bizarre effect
on common birds, causing the males to give voice to longer and more complex
songs.
This is only the latest in a long series of increasingly urgent alarms being
sounded by wildlife against an insidious but devastating danger that threatens
our children.
But so far our leaders have steadfastly and scandalously turned a deaf ear to
them - and, even more shamefully, ignored the first signs that the peril is
already affecting birth patterns, causing thousands of babies who should have
been boys to be born as girls instead.
Starlings and their diverse, complicated and mimicking - though not beautiful
- songs have long fascinated humanity.
Mozart was entranced by a starling after it copied a tune that the great
composer was whistling in a pet store.
Modern scientists have discovered that starlings' songs contain similar
patterns to human speech.
But if we could, indeed, understand what they are communicating, we would be
wise to take heed.
Scientists at Cardiff University have discovered that the brains of
male starlings foraging for worms at a sewage treatment works in South-West
England have been subtly changed by being contaminated by oestrogen from the
contraceptive pill and hormone replacement therapy (HRT).
The female hormones - present in women's urine, and passing through
the sewage treatment unaffected - caused the part of the brain that controls
their song to grow much bigger, causing them to sing at greater length and with
even more virtuosity than usual.
The study confirms similar, if slightly differing, research on other
birds, which scientists say is adding up to some of the first concrete proof of
the effects of gender benders on the natural world.
Researchers at the University of California have found that feeding female
finches with a hormone used in HRT has caused them to sing, something hitherto
done only by their males.
And studies at the University of Alberta have found robins exposed to the
pesticide DDT before birth suffered damage to the region of the brain that
enables them to sing and protect their territory.
Dr David Crews of the University of Texas calls the research on birdsong
"very significant", describing it as "the first step needed to demonstrate a
causal link between specific pollutants and the effects on wildlife
populations".
Researchers have calculated that 250,000 baby girls should
have been born boys in the U.S. and Japan alone
Yet there have been strange warning signs for decades. Way back in the early
1970s, researchers found that female gulls had taken to nesting together all
over the U.S., the males having apparently lost interest.
When the bashful males were caught and examined, they were found to have
developed female egg-laying canals.
In the 1980s, researchers in Florida found that alligators were failing to
reproduce because their males had mysteriously tiny penises; further
investigations revealed that they had developed female hormone patterns - and
that turtles in the same waters had developed into hermaphrodites.
Most alarming of all, repeated studies by Britain's own Environment Agency
have shown that about a third of the male roach in rivers and streams right
across the country have begun producing eggs, after developing female sex
organs.
Again, the problem was traced to oestrogen passing through sewage
works -- in some areas, near particularly heavy inflows of treated water, all
the males were found to be anatomically of "between" sex.
The findings have inevitably raised concern that people may also be affected,
since one-third of the country's drinking water comes from rivers, much of it
beneath sewage outfalls.
And, whether or not this is the cause, male sperm counts have been dropping
precipitously both here and across the world.
Fertile
Studies in more than 20 countries have shown that average amounts have fallen
by well over half in the past 50 years, from an average of more than 150
million
per millilitre to 66 million.
The result is that men are now less than half as fertile as hamsters.
The counts are continuing to plunge by two per cent a year, and no end to the
decline is in sight. At this rate, the average man will be unable to father
children within decades.
Increasingly the sperm crisis is being blamed on a whole host of chemicals,
not just synthetic oestrogen, but a wide variety of substances that have become
ubiquitous in daily life.
They include the common plastic PVC; dioxins, the notorious pollutants found
almost everywhere; PCBs, one-and-a-half million tons of which have been used in
countless products from paints to plastics; and phthalates, universally used to
make plastics more flexible.
Recent tests by WWF (formerly the World Wildlife Fund) on 14 basic foodstuffs
taken from supermarket shelves found that every single one contained PCBs, and
most were contaminated by phthalates.
Both substances have been shown to have deeply worrying effects on babies and
children.
Scientists at Rotterdam's Erasmus University have found that boys born to
mothers exposed to PCBs grew up wanting to play with dolls and tea-sets.
And research at the University of Rochester in New York State has shown that
the male children of women exposed to phthalates have smaller penises and other
signs of feminisation of their genitals.
Communities exposed to high levels of these and other gender-bender
chemicals, from the Great Lakes of North America to the Russian Arctic, have
been found to give birth to twice as many girls as boys.
This may offer a clue to the cause of a mysterious shift in the sex of babies
worldwide.
Conflict
Normally 106 boys are born for every 100 girls, in what is thought to be
nature's way of compensating for the fact that males were more likely to be
killed hunting or in conflict.
But increasingly this ratio is slipping - it is calculated that 250,000
babies who would have been boys have been born girls in the U.S. and Japan
alone.
You would think that all this accumulating evidence would long since have
sparked alarm in governments worldwide.
Far from it. When the EU drew up its first comprehensive controls on
chemicals two years ago, it largely exempted gender benders from them.
Britain, under Tony Blair's leadership, was largely responsible for this
exemption, and confidential documents show that it obediently acted to water
down the controls following direct representations from the Bush administration
-- almost unbelievably putting the interests of foreign firms above the health
of British children.
Since then, as Dr Gwynne Lyons, director of the expert group, CHEM Trust puts
it, there has been "regulatory inertia".
That needs to change, and fast. If ministers continue wilfully to refuse to
heed the science, they should, at least, listen to the starlings.
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