...but TIL they're turning the fish trans. I'm 100% serious:
When they're hatching fish to grow them in fish farms, they treat them with hormones which causes a sex reversal, turning all the fish all male or female. As a result they all grow to the same larger size so you end up with more fish to sell, and they don't reproduce in the fish pens which creates a fuckton of problems.
There's no giant conspiracy or anything covering this up, there's plenty of scientific literature out there on the practice, apparently it's been a common thing in marine biology for a while and it's well-studied. There's zero concern that it has any effects on humans, and it doesn't appear to cause any animal welfare issues with the fish themselves. Environmental release of hormones from hatcheries seems to be the biggest concern - amphibians are also susceptible to sex reversal so a significant release of hormones could turn the frogs trans.
But not gay, so Alex Jones can still fuck off.
So yeah, next time you look at salmon at Costco, there's about a 50/50 chance that fish was trans. Take the moment, look at the fish in the cooler and ask yourself what in the actual fuck we're doing as a species...
When they're hatching fish to grow them in fish farms, they treat them with hormones which causes a sex reversal, turning all the fish all male or female. As a result they all grow to the same larger size so you end up with more fish to sell, and they don't reproduce in the fish pens which creates a fuckton of problems.
There's no giant conspiracy or anything covering this up, there's plenty of scientific literature out there on the practice, apparently it's been a common thing in marine biology for a while and it's well-studied. There's zero concern that it has any effects on humans, and it doesn't appear to cause any animal welfare issues with the fish themselves. Environmental release of hormones from hatcheries seems to be the biggest concern - amphibians are also susceptible to sex reversal so a significant release of hormones could turn the frogs trans.
But not gay, so Alex Jones can still fuck off.
So yeah, next time you look at salmon at Costco, there's about a 50/50 chance that fish was trans. Take the moment, look at the fish in the cooler and ask yourself what in the actual fuck we're doing as a species...