Yes, but look what it's done for the profits of the Coca-Cola company and PepsiCo!

Big oil attacking deez nuts

Headline: “Could it be microplastics?”

Story: “oh definitely. 100%. I mean, c’mon. Seriously, it’s SO microplastics it’s insane.”

Seeing the numbers of testes cited here as being an odd number makes me feel uncomfortable.

But Jordan Peterson told me Soy milk made me a girl, who am I supposed to believe! /s

(Obviously not Jordan Peterson or manosphere bullshit)

Wow… that sounds really bad for the economy

Children of Men almost had it right.

petroleum derived microplastics are stored in the balls. Big Oil is sneaking into deez nutz

I don't have any microplastics in me. My plastics are huge!

The Guardian's story on this has more of the important details

The human testicles had been preserved and so their sperm count could not be measured. However, the sperm count in the dogs’ testes could be assessed and was lower in samples with higher contamination with PVC. The study demonstrates a correlation but further research is needed to prove microplastics cause sperm counts to fall.

The testes analysed were obtained from postmortems in 2016, with the men ranging in age from 16 to 88 when they died. “The impact on the younger generation might be more concerning” now that there is more plastic than ever in the environment, Yu said.

The study, published in the journal Toxicological Sciences, involved dissolving the tissue samples and then analysing the plastic that remained. The dogs’ testes were obtained from veterinary practices that conducted neutering operations.

The human testicles had a plastic concentration almost three times higher than that found in the dog testes: 330 micrograms per gram of tissue compared with 123 micrograms. Polyethylene, used in plastic bags and bottles, was the most common microplastic found, followed by PVC.

Last week it was Roundup.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/17/glyphosate-weedkiller-sperm

I hope this is true, as it would mean fertility rates would fall. (Right?)

No, it's obviously soy consumption

This is the best summary I could come up with:

The ‘red flag’ of our consumptive lifestyles, they have reached the limits of the Earth - from the Mariana Trench to the tip of Mount Everest.

These tiny particles of decomposed plastic have seeped into clouds, and been found buried in archaeological remains believed to be ‘pristine’.

“The ubiquitous existence of microplastics and nanoplastics raises concerns about their potential impact on the human reproductive system,” the study, published in the journal Toxicological Sciences, states.

Sperm counts in western men have more than halved in the last few decades, with air pollution and exposure to pesticides frequently cited as factors.

“At the beginning, I doubted whether microplastics could penetrate the reproductive system,” Prof Xiaozhong Yu, one of the authors of the new study told the UK’s Guardian newspaper.

A smaller study in China last year also found microplastics in six human testes and 30 semen samples.

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and all 47 testes from pet dogs.

A) nobody ask how they tested the dogs

B) How many humans were tested in total? I'm pretty sure we feed garbage to dogs.