CHEM Trust reports on male feminisation

Posted by Guessedworker on Monday, 08 December 2008 14:36.

CHEM Trust, a charity “with a mission to protect humans and wildlife from harmful chemicals” has issued its well-trailed report on the effects of man-made endocrine-disrupting, or “gender bending”, chemicals in the environment.

These are:-

... chemicals which block the male hormone androgen, the so-called anti-androgenic chemicals, can cause un-descended testes and can feminise males. Similarly, some sex hormone disrupting chemicals can mimic oestrogen, the female hormone, and also feminise males. Many man-made chemicals can block androgen action, and these include several pesticides and some phthalates, used in consumer products to make plastics flexible. Worryingly, a study of effluents from UK sewage works has found that around three-quarters of these discharges have considerable anti-androgenic activity, and investigations are underway to identify the chemicals to blame.

The four-part report is not confined or focussed upon the known effects of pollutants upon human males. It reviews effects upon the males of all vertebrate life. Nonetheless, the underlying concern is for our male offspring:-

Taken together, the effects seen in wildlife should raise concerns for contaminant induced genital disruption in human male infants. Indeed a condition called testicular dysgenesis syndrome, including birth defects of the penis of baby boys, cryptorchidism (undescended testes), reduced sperm production and testicular cancer, has been suggested, because there is evidence to indicate that these effects may be interlinked in causation (Skakkebaek et al.,2001; 2007; Sharpe and Skakkebaek,2008). Moreover, in many studies these disorders or demasculinization effects have been associated with exposure to certain contaminants or sex hormone.

All of the chemicals associated with these effects are to be found in the developed world. They are generally less evident in the developing world. Male children born to Third World migrants in the West are as at risk as those born to settled populations here.

In two days time the British government will oppose proposed new European controls on pesticides, many of which have been found to have “gender-bending” effects. In total, there have been over 100,000 new chemicals introduced in recent years. Ninety-nine per cent of them are not properly regulated, and eight-five per cent are devoid of accompanying safety information.

The full report, which follows studies in Italy and America, can be downloaded in pdf form here.

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Comments:

Posted by James Bowery on Mon, 08 Dec 2008 17:16 | #

In 1978, Israel banned three estrogenic pesticides.

Posted by Guessedworker on Mon, 08 Dec 2008 17:42 | #

I wonder whether there has been - or will be as a result of this report - any discussion of the feminisation issue among Jews in diaspore. They do care about their people, after all, and Jews don’t have the same connection with manufacturing process industries that they do with “clean” service sector activities (academia, media, publishing, banking, advertising, the law, etc).

Posted by Martin on Mon, 08 Dec 2008 22:01 | #

In the late 1990s, publicans in South Kensington warned me off lager due to the so-called gender-bending chemicals found therein. They said it would produce ‘man-breasts.’

Posted by Eye of the Beholder on Tue, 09 Dec 2008 01:00 | #

It’s best to eat all organic if you can.

Processed milk in the USA, at least, contains hormones that have been injected into the cows to produce more milk, and they end up in the milk and as far as I remember, the meat too. And that’s just one example.

Best to eat as naturally as possible. If you are unable to grow your own food then at least buy locally and organically and avoid meat and milk products.

It is scientfically possible for men however to be able to breast feed their children, naturally, without being a result of chemical hormones.

Posted by MindWarp on Tue, 09 Dec 2008 01:26 | #

Eye of the Beholder wrote:

Best to eat as naturally as possible. If you are unable to grow your own food then at least buy locally and organically and avoid meat and milk products.

That is prohibited by ZOG these days:

http://www.crossroad.to/articles2/08/swat-team.htm

Posted by Eye of the Beholder on Tue, 09 Dec 2008 01:36 | #

Buying organic at your local health food store is not prohibited, MindWarp. I did it just a few hours ago.

Posted by snax on Tue, 09 Dec 2008 05:23 | #

http://www.archive.org/details/TheDisappearingMale-CBC

Posted by Dante on Tue, 09 Dec 2008 17:23 | #

Søren Renner wrote:

Does this qualify as junk science?

Ha! Well done, sir.

Assuming chemical toxicity is shown to have a detrimental effect on the traditional male personality, I don’t see the powers that be rushing to address the issue. Surely the suppression of independence, territoriality, competitiveness, etc. is critical to their objectives?

Posted by Eye of the Beholder on Tue, 09 Dec 2008 20:04 | #

If you only eat organic, this becomes a non-issue. Facts like this are for the fools out there who are still buying and eating heavily processed and manufactured foods.

Posted by noni juice on Fri, 16 Jan 2009 16:29 | #

Is it any authority that does some tests on this pesticides. Are they any official data to say that these pesticides are so harmfully?
What are the implies that cause these to be still used, is it only ignorance?
Why peoples are still using those?

Thanks