According to researchers at the University of California Berkley (via inhabitat),  Atrazine one of the most common used herbicides worldwide, also one of the most common water pollutants in North America, may cause perfectly healthy, normal male frogs to grow up and become fully functional reproducing females.

The pollutant has consequently been banned in Europe in 2003 after some disturbing studies linking it to prostate and breast cancer. 80 Million+ pounds of the contaminant are dumped yearly in the US every year.

If it can cause frogs to change sexes, I'm sure it has bad repercussions for human, maybe even infertility, ever watch that movie where mankind loses the ability to reproduce?

Imagine the diseases we could cure, if we just stopped polluting our own damn world!

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