April 27, 2010 | Funny Bits

Bald? Gay? Blame it on chicken

Finally, we now know where both homosexuality and baldness come from. Bolivian president Evo Morales claims that men go gay, and lose their hair, because they eat too much chicken.

He took time at a very important environmental conference to explain how chicken producers inject their birds with female hormones. "When men eat those chickens they experience deviances in being men," he said.

Spain's National Federation of Lesbians, Gays, Transsexuals and Bisexuals sent a letter of protest to the Bolivian embassy in Madrid, claiming the president's remarks were homophobic. The president of the Argentina Homosexual Community, Cesar Cigliutti, added: "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." (Which may explain why ex-gay group Exodus International is now serving overly muscled chicken at all their ex-gay orgies, er, get togethers.)

The president may also want to do a little homework next time he speaks. Chicken producers in Europe and the US, for example. gave up hormone treatment in their poultry decades ago.

Gay and bald? Evo Morales thinks you ate too much chicken [The Guardian]