this is a pervasive problem throughout the USA, especially because of the reliance on large municipal sanitary treatment plants that discharge to fresh and salt water bodies. Discharges that include various medicines, birth control drugs, antibiotics and other chemicals that can not be removed during treatment.

Two truisms that I learned forty some years ago... There's no such thing as a free lunch... and ... Todays problems are the result of yesterday's solutions.

Fifty years ago it was unusual to know someone with asthma or food allergies... what has changed in our environment since then? OK, what hasn't changed is the better question, I guess.

We are reaping what we sowed...