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12/12/06, by Kate Hopkins Email 1778 views • Categories: Web Finds, Food Politics

I've read some fairly amazing stories about food whilst perusing the Internet. Some of them hairbrained and based in idle speculation, others well researched and well documented. Can you guess which category this article about soy from the conservative site WorldNetDaily falls into?

Here's a clue, in the form of a snippet from the post:

Soy is feminizing, and commonly leads to a decrease in the size of the penis, sexual confusion and homosexuality. That's why most of the medical (not socio-spiritual) blame for today's rise in homosexuality must fall upon the rise in soy formula and other soy products.

So let me see if I understand their premise -

Soy...

...causes homosexuality.

Ooooohhhhhhhh!! That explains everything!! I'm glad they could set the record straight.


Comments, Pingbacks:

Comment from: Dr. Biggles [Visitor] · http://www.meathenge.com
They forgot to mention quiche. Not very well researched if'n you axe me.

Biggles
PermalinkPermalink 12/12/06 @ 11:08
Comment from: George [Visitor]
I am notoriously conservative but this kind of argument, non sequitur as it may be, is almost offensively ridiculous. Free speech is alive, but at times, braindead.
PermalinkPermalink 12/12/06 @ 12:06
Comment from: relly59 [Visitor]
Ha ha ha, there is one way to determine if it is true, take the statistique of homos in Asian countries we consumes a lot of soy...
PermalinkPermalink 12/12/06 @ 13:11
Comment from: Nicholas Caratzas [Visitor]
Not commonly known, but the song "La Bamba" is a response to a sailor's query as to the best diet to ensure his continued masculinity. Thus the lyric, "Yo, no soy, marinero!"

Tip the veal, try your waitress
PermalinkPermalink 12/12/06 @ 13:41
Comment from: Jason [Visitor]
Don't laugh, my dad thought that eating yogurt turned guys gay. He told me not to bring it into his house - and this was in the mid-'90s!
PermalinkPermalink 12/12/06 @ 14:02
Comment from: kitchenmage [Visitor] · http://blog.kitchenmage.com/
Ignorance is amusing...until we let them set policy!
PermalinkPermalink 12/12/06 @ 14:18
Comment from: kitchenmage [Visitor] · http://blog.kitchenmage.com/
oh wait! they say natto is ok, but soy isn't. and soy is not just bad it's "devil's food"! Oh my flying spaghetti monster!
PermalinkPermalink 12/12/06 @ 14:24
Comment from: Sean [Visitor] · http://hedonia.seantimberlake.com
"I have nothing against an occasional soy snack. Soy is nutritious and contains lots of good things. Unfortunately, when you eat or drink a lot of soy stuff, you're also getting substantial quantities of estrogens."

Sure, it's that whole, "some of my best friends are soy snacks" logic that wingnuts use to couch their offensive position. And just how many estrogens are there, anyway? As many as there are internets?
PermalinkPermalink 12/12/06 @ 14:25
Comment from: Mark [Visitor]
I think soy products were used in the demolition of the World Trade Center by the Elders of Zion.
PermalinkPermalink 12/12/06 @ 15:54
Comment from: Gary [Visitor]
Yeah, and don't eat any quiche either.
.......
Recently scene bumper sticker:
Focus on Your Own Damn Family.
PermalinkPermalink 12/12/06 @ 16:13
Comment from: Andrea [Visitor] · http://www.andreasrecipes.com
It's so unfortunate that people get sucked this kind of thinking based on a two-point correlation.

There *is* some evidence that "overdosing" on soy is NOT healthy for people with thyroid conditions, pre-menopausal women, and babies (http://web.archive.org/web/20000815204236/http://abcnews.go.com/onair/2020/2020_000609_soy_feature.html), but making people gay? Oy.
PermalinkPermalink 12/12/06 @ 16:14
Comment from: David L [Visitor] · http://www.davidlebovitz.com
Well I ate some tofu last week, so I checked to see if things were any different.

From what I saw, I can't say I support his first claim...although I don't have any scientific basis for making that claim. It's just a hunch.
PermalinkPermalink 12/12/06 @ 23:00

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