Evidence mounts that reproductive abnormalities resulting from synthetic chemical contamination now shadow us.
For those of you who have read THE HUNDRED YEAR LIE, you already know that Chapter 6 presents evidence that synthetic chemicals are turning both humans and animal life into mutant species.
The latest compelling evidence affirming this alarming trend comes from The Washington Post, which featured a frontpage article last week revealing the findings from U.S. Geological Survey testing of rivers in the Washington, D.C. area. These rivers provide the tap water for several million residents of D.C., northern Virginia, and suburban Maryland.
Here are the key findings:
---at least 80 percent of all bass caught in those rivers and river tributaries and tested were found to have intersex reproductive organs, with the males growing eggs in their reproductive organs.
---since 2003, when these abnormalities in fish were first discovered in the upper Potomac River and in West Virginia, the incidence of intersex births has spread rapidly and widely.
---hormone disrupting chemicals released by wastewater treatment plants into these rivers were identified as the probable culprits for these abnormalities.
---the problem may be "a result of several pollutants acting in combination." In other words, chemical synergies as identified in The Hundred Year Lie are producing these mutant strains of fish.
---even though the U.S. Congress directed the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in 1996 to develop a screening program to identify which chemicals are causing abnormalities, a decade later NOT A SINGLE CHEMICAL has been tested by the EPA.
Scientists interviewed by The Post expressed shock and dismay at this spread of hormone disrupting chemicals and the complete inability of the EPA to even study the problem.
As for the possible threat to human health that exposure to tap water may pose, a spokesman for the area's water utility confessed that they have no idea whether water purification plants can remove the mutation-causing chemicals before humans ingest the water.
"We don't even know if we are analyzing the water to look for the right things," revealed Charles Murray, general manager of the Fairfax (Virginia) Water utility.
