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Tanis,
A number of widely used insecticides are estrogen mimics and cause all sorts 
of problems with vertebrates as well as the insects that they are supposed to 
be targeted to.  I think there are a lot more of them around even than the 
true hormones. 
Muffy Barrett

-- "tanis cuff"  wrote:
Last thing I heard was a blaming of medical use of hormones-- human & 
animal-- what the body doesn't use, &/or the metabolites (right word?) end 
up in waterways.  Or hormones plus pesticides, being a powerful double-wammy 
for amphibians.

Not counting the loss of quantity and quality of wetlands...


----Original Message Follows----
From: Heron Breen <>
To: nafex@
Subject: [NAFEX] "Roundup" effects
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 20:13:03 -0500

Hi Friends,
The Organic Consumer Association's online paper recently ran a blurb about 
Roundup
being extremely lethal to amphibians. Apparently the tests were supposed to 
show
its effects on algae, but the results were obvious as scientists continued 
the
study. Atrazine has also been recently found to be deadly to amphibians. 
Tadpoles
are the most affected stage of development in both cases. I would be makeing 
a leap
of intelligence to suppose herbicides could be at least partly responsible 
for the
decline in amphibians we all have read so much about in the last few 
years...What
do you think?
Heron Breen
zone 4, Maine


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