Creation
In the amazing world of artificial insemination (AI or IVF or call it what you will) large amounts of a particular hormone is needed. This hormone is FSH. Oddly enough it is a hormone which appears at high levels in the urine of post menopausal women.
When IVF first started out they used to send milk lorries (US translation: trucks) to collect urine from Italian convents (a wonderful source of old lady pee, free from the STDs that are so frequently a feature of nursing homes these days).
Is this another Da Vinci code-esque conspiracy: Has the Roman Catholic church found a new means of going forth and multiplying? Did the Italian nuns know this was where their urine was going? Is this an infringement of their chastity? Does it amount to participating in an immaculate conception?
If you were to give it a brand name, would you call it “pURINE?”
These musings are irrelevant. The industry has changed: they outsource to South America now.
