Birth Control in the Water
March 22, 2008 by Tracee Sioux
Filed under Parenting
I just read this crazy article on CNN.com about how all our medicines are in the public water supply. I guess we pee them out and then drink them again. Could this explain the increase in infertility and even precocious puberty? Inadvertant drinking of birth control and hormone treatments? And while researchers do not yet understand the exact risks from decades of persistent exposure to random combinations of low levels of pharmaceuticals, recent studies — which have gone virtually unnoticed by the general public — have found alarming effects on human cells and wildlife, states the article.The federal government doesn’t require any testing and hasn’t …read more




