The Urban Pantheist

I've been sitting on this hermaphrodite chicken story for a while, and then I heard them talking about it on NPR. I just wanted to use my tag again.

I didn't eat any whale while I was in Greenland, though I saw it for sale. If I'd known it was so forbidden in the US I might have, just for the experience. There they eat the non-endangered Minke whale. If you wanted some meat from an endangered Sei whale, then you could have gone to HUMP, a sushi restaurant in L.A. until recently, but then the Feds shut them down for selling horse and whale meat. (For the record: I am against selling endangered whale meat, very much FOR selling horse meat.)

HEY look at the cool frog!

From anais2

A variety of different chemicals are found to disrupt hormones in vertebrates, affecting mostly male animals:

"Half the male fish in British lowland rivers have been found to be developing eggs in their testes..."
"...Research at the University of Florida earlier this year found that 40 per cent of the male cane toads ... had become hermaphrodites in a heavily farmed part of the state..."
"...Two-thirds of male Sitka black-tailed deer in Alaska have been found to have undescended testes and deformed antler growth..."
"It is calculated that 250,000 babies who would have been boys have been born as girls instead in the US and Japan alone."


(I didn't think I'd ever get to use my "transgendered animals" tag again."