Friday, Jul 23, 2010 12:32 ET
Shrimp on Prozac are killing themselves
A study shows that drug traces in our waste can affect marine life behavior, but can crustaceans have feelings?
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 U.K. have found that enough of the drug passes through our bodies