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Thursday, April 22, 2010
Brody's Notes... President Of Bolivia: Eating Chicken Turns Men Gay
By Brody Levesque (Washington DC) Apr 22 | According to the President of Bolivia, speaking at a conference sponsored by his government tackling issues of global warming and the environment, the president alleges that consumption of chicken causes homosexuality & male pattern baldness. Morales said chicken producers injected fowl with female hormones and insisted that;
"When men eat those chickens they experience deviances in being men."
He told attendees that he only eats non-genetically modified chicken straight from the farm.
Morales also claimed the diet of many people of European descent can be linked to baldness and early breast growth in girls."
Baldness, which seems normal, is a disease in Europe. Almost everyone is bald, and it's related to the food they eat.
"Among the indigenous people there are no bald men, because we eat different things," he continued.
Morales's remarks have been criticised by Spain's National Federation of Lesbians, Gays, Transsexuals and Bisexuals, which sent a letter of protest to the Bolivian embassy in Madrid describing the president's remarks as homophobic.
In Buenos Aires the head of an Argentinian homosexual community campaigning organisation, Cesar Cigliutti, said:
"It's an absurdity to think that eating hormone-containing chicken can change the sexual orientation of a person. By following that reasoning, if we put male hormones in a chicken and we make a homosexual eat it he will transform into a heterosexual."
As chicken producers in Europe, the US and many other countries abandoned the use of hormones in poultry several decades ago, it seems unlikely that President Morale's theories are scientifically possible.
A spokesman for the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland in suburban Washington D. C. declined to comment on Morale's claims.
Evo Morales, President Of Bolivia Photo Courtesy of The Embassy Of Bolivia, Washington D. C.
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Pres Evo brings up a very interesting point here. He claims that male pattern baldness is non-existant among Bolivia's indigenous population.
I suppose that even most scientists would laugh off the idea that it has to do with diet rather than heredity. But when no scientific study has occured, one can't really be sure.
I wonder if babies adopted from indiginous Bolivian parents into US families and raised here, have a statistically significantly higher degree of male pattern baldness than do the indigenous folks of Bolivia.
As my Jewish acquaintance always says about Christians..."never make fun of em, caz youi n e v e r know."
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Ye gods and little fishes! Wot nekst?
I am a vegan (among many other things that means no chicken at all). So much for His Excellency's theory!
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The paradox has often been noted that the United States, founded in secularism, is now the most religiose country in Christendom, while England, with an established church headed by its constitutional monarch, is among the least. (Richard Dawkins, 2006)
It sounds like a dud theory, especially if expressed in absolute terms. However I do think that hormone intake can have some impact on brain development, which in turn can impact sexuality.
Other studies have asserted that the development of an embryo in the womb is when sexuality is influenced, so the diet of the mother could well play an important role, too.
I think a lot more is diet related than we give credit for. A lot of illnesses, etc, including mental illnesses may have lower rates of incidence were our diets different. The brain is made up of chemicals, after all, and the only way to impact the chemical composition of our bodies is food.
So while these particular claims sound unscientific, there is an area of scientific study that could arise around diet and sexuality. I doubt the link would ever be 100%, though, sexuality- like intelligence is socially influenced, too. Just because you eat a lot of fish and have high omega-3 intake that doesn't guarantee intelligence.
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Someone send that idiot a can of Spam.
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Can't say what the testosterone level is in the average Bolivian male, but it seems the gene pool is quite shallow.
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LMAO....Shrub, the most aptly named president the Republican Party ever bought and paid for. The columnist Molly Ivins gave us that name, such a courageous and dear lady, she will be missed.
G.W. Bush appears on the news occasionally, but he is ignored for the most part, an embarassment to the country. In all I've seen of him I get the distinct impression that he still thinks he did everything right. Such a sad man, he was used by the likes of Cheney and company.
I would really like to know: Didn't Tony Blair realize what he was doing in associating with Shrub? Maybe he had no choice.
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Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. (Sir Francis Bacon 1561-1626)
Damn, I knew there was something better than those little pills, LMAO.
Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. (Sir Francis Bacon 1561-1626)