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Bolivian president Evo Morales blames sex problems on chickens

23 April 2010 [16:12] - TODAY.AZ
Bolivian President Evo Morales has drawn controversy after he said that men should avoid eating chicken if they want to maintain their virility and stop going bald.
Morales told an environmental conference on Tuesday that chicken producers inject the birds with female hormones, which he said can lead to baldness and sexual issues in men who eat the chicken.

There's an amount of confusion over exactly what Morales said, depending on which translation you read. The Associated Press reported that he said 'and because of that, men who consume them have problems being men' - suggesting he was talking about chickens causing impotence.

But another news agency, Agence France-Presse, reported his comments as 'when men eat those chickens, they experience deviances in being men.' Which sounds a bit more like he's blaming chickens for men becoming gay.

Either way, Morales' warning may be out of date: Chicken producers in Europe, the United States and many other countries say they abandoned the use of hormones in poultry several decades ago and many if not most Western nations ban them outright.

And in any case, Morales has his biochemistry the wrong way round - on the baldness issue, at least. Male pattern baldness is linked to dihydrotestosterone, a predominantly male hormone, not to female hormones. So you're probably okay to keep eating chickens.


/Metro.co.uk/
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