Evo Morales insinuates the existence of a relationship between homosexuality and supposedly hormone chicken intake

Vergonzosas declaraciones las del primer mandatario de Bolivia, el presidente Evo Morales, quien relacionó el consumo de pollo con la homosexualidad. «El pollo que comemos está cargado de hormonas femeninas. Por eso, cuando los hombres comen esos pollos, tienen desviaciones en su ser como hombres» , fueron exactamente sus palabras, que por cierto fueron acogidas con carcajadas por parte de los asistentes.

Morales' words, which sought to criticize transgenic products, were pronounced at the inauguration of the World Conference of Peoples on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth, but in reality they refer to a very common urban myth in Latin America,which argues that the chickens of the poultry farms grow faster than the peasants because they are injected hormones.The myth also says that the consumption of these hormones is related to male homosexuality or baldness.

A legend that was born between the 50s or 60s, when the animals fattened about 4 or 5 months before they slaughtered them.Then in Europe it occurred to the breeders to inject female hormones into the chicken into the neck to cause a kind of castration to the male, hoping to gain more fat.Then, the employees ate the necks of the chickens where the hormones were infected and developed gynecomastia (which is a pathological development of the mammary glands).The publication of these cases of gynecomastia gave rise to myth.

Actually, farm -raised chickens have been a product of artificial selection to choose races that grow fast.However, the myth is widespread and is often used by educated persons defenders of vegetarianism, or as in this case by a head of state.Its social acceptance also reveals that most of the population sees homosexuality as something pathological, and does not know that homosexual orientation has accompanied our species throughout its existence ...

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Update: Evo Morales' words have had an unusual echo in the Spanish press, including conservative media.An echo that we greet and that we expect involves a change in their attitude when dealing with the homophobic statements of other political, national or international leaders.

In Spain, the Confederation Colegas has issued a hard statement in which it demands a rectification of Morales' words, which suppose «a message of hate and rejection of the homosexual population, especially when who makes them is the president of a country.It is paradoxical that the strongest defender of ethnic minorities in his country rejects on the other hand to sexual minorities, who need equal support and claim, ”said Paco Ramírez, his secretary of organization of his."The obsession of some for 'manhood' seems almost pathological, and President Morales with his statements contributes very little to change the Bolivian heteromachist society, where the role of submission of women has been and is very relevant,"has added.

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