In 2012, a report claimed that French men were less manly – their
sperm counts declined 30% since 1985, it found. A speculative comment by a
researcher, that maybe it was ‘endocrine disruptors’, led environmentalists to
declare that pesticides were turning French men into slightly less manly French
men. There was no evidence for it, but activists often look for problems to
match to their solution so they jumped on the result. Anti-agriculture people
blamed pesticides, anti-smoking people blamed cigarettes, anti-alcohol people
blamed too much wine, etc.
It may be they had lost sperm count because they ate too
many vegetables. Or at least vegetables with not enough pesticides. It’s not a secret that vegetarians have lower sperm
quality than people on a normal diet and a new report added evidence to earlier
findings.
Does that explain the French? Perhaps. The authors of the
2012 paper did a new study this year and said they factored out things
that could also be impacting French sperm, like cigarettes and alcohol. What
did environmentalists claim must be the culprit? You guessed it; pesticides
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