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Friday, July 23, 2010

Shrimp on Prozac are killing themselves

Shrimp on Prozac are killing themselves:

I have friends who are always talking about happy pigs and happy chickens -- left to roam freely, eating real food instead of weird commercial food pellets, given the occasional backrub. But pity the poor shrimp! No one is raising happy shrimp ... on purpose anyway. But all the Prozac we've been taking may be doing the work for us, and marine biologists at the University of Portsmouth in the UK have found that enough of the drug passes through our bodies directly into the wastewater to seriously change the behavior of shrimp who swim in it: They're killing themselves. But do shrimp even have emotions?





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