[randywebb]

Wash. state prohibits the use of toxic metal by-products in fertilizer. Oregon does not. Many Oregonians will only use fertilizer that is salable in Wash., if they don't use organic.
-- It's amazing the stuff ways they will dispose of toxics...


The fish issue is actually real - maybe more imp. for amphibians reptiles (but I'm not very well hooked into fish research...). A friend of mine is a research chemist at the nation Water Quality Labs and worked out the assay methods for this. Tey have found an amazing variety of drugs in wastewater. And of course, if you live downstream, then your drinking water is somebody else's wastewater. (Luckily, Paul lives downstream from me and not the other way around). Nobody really knows what hormones and their chemical mimics do to us (including the cute post-doc next door, who works on this when she isn't playing in her rock band).

But I do have a fact for you gentlemen:

You guys - on average - are 1/4 the men your grandfathers were.

- that's based on sperm counts.