Gay and bald? Evo Morales thinks you ate too much chicken

Bolivian president causes homophobia storm by blaming 'deviant' men on hormone-reared fowl
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Evo Morales, the Bolivian president, has suggested that eating chicken can cause homosexuality and baldness in men. Photograph: Evan Kafka/Getty Images/Evan Kafka

Male pattern baldness and the mysteries of human sexuality are no puzzles for the president of Bolivia, who has declared they are caused by eating chicken.



The Bolivian president since 2005 added that eating chicken could make men go bald.


The president of the Argentina 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."

The dubious potential effects of hormone-infused chicken aside, Morales's warning may be out of date anyway as chicken producers in Europe, the US and many other countries abandoned the use of hormones in poultry several decades ago.

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