Mothers Eating Drugged Beef Destroy Male Fertility

Capitalism Leads To Extinction ?: "The sons of women who regularly ate beef during pregnancy are more likely to have low sperm counts, a report claims today.

The American researchers suggest the growth promoters used in cattle may be responsible. It has been known for more than 10 years that sperm counts had been falling in the western world, with scientists at Copenhagen University pointing to exposure to pesticides and industrial chemicals.

The principle suspects included 'gender-bender' chemicals that act like human sex hormones.

The latest study - of men in the United States born between 1949 and 1983 - found that those whose mothers ate more than seven beef meals a week had a sperm concentration more than 24 per cent lower than in men whose mothers ate less beef.


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Many sons of high beef consumers had a count that would be classified as sub-fertile by World Health Organization standards.

One British expert called the findings "alarming." Another said: "Don't mess with growth promoters is the obvious takehome message."