Drugged and Contracepted Fish

A report that "fish caught near wastewater treatment plants serving five major cities had residues of pharmaceuticals in them, including drugs used to treat high blood pressure, cholesterol, allergies, depression and bipolar disorder" — Pharmaceuticals Discovered In Fish In Five Major U.S. Cities.

Not worthy, or perhaps too controversial for the study, is the inconvenient truth that "estrogens and other steroid hormones from birth control pills and patches, excreted in urine," are behind "the genetically modified fish" found today — Contracepting the Environment. The authors of the study "anticipated an immediate response from environmentalists," but instead "the hormone story was mostly ignored." Ignored by some, but not all; there were some alarmed by the "devastating effects on the environment by releasing tonnes of hormones into nature" — Contraceptive pill polluting the environment, says Vatican.

Two dogmas of environmentalism are in conflict here: the protection of non-human species and the culling of the human race. The latter, of course, always trumps the former.