Comments on: Does Pollution Cause More Girls to be Born than Boys?

By: jollyollie

jollyollie — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 20:16:29 +0000

Maybe this is just the more subtle method of getting rid of Natives. The whole ‘Residential School’ shebang didn’t turn out too well.

By: Elliander

Elliander — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 20:05:46 +0000

In Canada, if a Full Blooded native woman marries a non native man, she looses native status. So in practice, if very few native men are being born compared to native women, there is the very real chance that within a few generations there won’t be anyone left on the reservation recognized as a native since native status follows the male line and no males means no native status.

So I really don’t expect any Government would do anything about it even if it is confirmed to be from toxins. The Canadian Government has an interest in this happening.

By: Lea

Lea — Thu, 29 May 2008 00:18:23 +0000

Kind of off topic, but kind of not, I read something where estrogen or other hormones pumped into water by labs and chemical companies can cause feminized fish and even some evidence of it in humans (though low instances). I wonder if this is even true, but if so, is it related?

By: Suzie

Suzie — Wed, 28 May 2008 22:02:15 +0000

42% male- and this ratio is coming from no more than 300 births in a 6 year period (the dates overlap). I dont understand the concern. Is having 58% girls some horrible devistating thing?
If they had 58% kids with downs syndrome or autism, that would be something to worry about. But having healthy female daughters??
I am going to put my fema-nazi hat on for one moment…
By all means, clean up the pollution- but the implication that their daughters gender is a birth defect is just wrong.
Wold they complian if they had 58% male children?

By: Evilbeagle

Evilbeagle — Wed, 28 May 2008 20:49:56 +0000

I’m all for ridding the environment of toxins, and that’s all well and good, but I think it’s a bit of a stretch to blame them for the boy/girl ratio.

By: donna

donna — Wed, 28 May 2008 17:44:24 +0000

Could be a lack of protein in the mother’s diets, which can influence the sex of the child.

But yes, we need to get rid of the toxins in our environment and dispose of them in a better way.

By: L

Wed, 28 May 2008 17:35:48 +0000

Maybe it’s nature’s way of keeping things at 50/50. As Retrokatze said, some cultures get rid of their girls. So it may be that there will be pockets of higher girl to boy ratios popping up here and there to offset that.

Although, what the mechanism behind that would be is anyone’s guess.

By: Retrokatze

Retrokatze — Wed, 28 May 2008 13:50:10 +0000

Makes up for alle the girls that get aborted or killed in India/China.

The rest of the article is interesting, too:

“Still, there is no proof that pollution is responsible, and data from surrounding Lambton County don’t show a similar impact. The findings represent a “short period of time and a small population” and require further study, said Dean Edwardson, general manager of the Sarnia-Lambton Environmental Association, which represents area industry.

Experts note other factors might include diet, alcohol use, smoking and occupational exposures. [...]“

They should probably do something about all those toxins anyway…