I had to look at this blog post by Hank Campbell at the Genetic Literacy Project website twice before it sank in. According to Campbell, as opposed to claims by environmentalists that consuming pesticides can affect one’s sex drive, a study headed by Dr. Eliza Orzylowska of Loma Linda University Medical Center discussed at the 70th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine in Hawaii this week used semen analyses of 26 vegetarians, 5 vegans, and 443 meat eaters between 2009 and 2013 found that vegetarians and vegans have significantly poorer sperm concentration and motility than people on a normal diet. They weren’t infertile, their boys were just not as robust.

While their have been manuscripts done by French scientists that environmentalists use to make their case that pesticide consumption affects French male sperm count, Campbell states that pesticide use in the country has actually gone down. Not just in France but in some cases California too. Higher pesticide rates, however, are more likely to be present in organic crop efforts as well.

In short, it’s clear that the drop in French sperm count is correlated to the drop in pesticide use and if you want to have kids or more of them, in addition to eating meat, include vegetables and fruits grown that had pesticides used. A mostly plant-based diet using organic fruits and vegetables is tantamount to a sexual death sentence but is consistent with environmentalist ethics since the end goal is the eradication of human life.