Tofu Makes You Gay and Charlotte’s Web is Animal Rights Extremism
Dec 14th, 2006 by Will Potter
I’m truly speechless on this one, so I’ll let the article in World Net Daily speak for itself:
There’s a slow poison out there that’s severely damaging our children and threatening to tear apart our culture. The ironic part is, it’s a “health food,” one of our most popular.
The dangerous food I’m speaking of is soy. Soybean products are feminizing, and they’re all over the place. You can hardly escape them anymore.
Forget about the “eco-terrorists” protesting outside your business. Those crazy vegetarians will turn your children into raving HOMOS! It’s not clear yet which is a greater national security threat in the minds of the New McCarthyists. But don’t even think about challenging the rock-solid research behind this: you can just take your “truthiness” and fact-based agendas elsewhere. How else can you explain the growing consumer demand for Tofu Dogs?
But hold on, you sassy soy-eater. It gets better.
It was bad enough when the New McCarthyists labeled Hoot, a children’s movie, “soft-core eco terrorism for kids.”
Now they’re going after that radical E.B. White. Remember Charlotte’s Web? The children’s book? It has been made into a movie and has already been dubbed as promoting “eco-terrorism.”
Forget about the First Amendment. The Center for Consumer Freedom, an industry front group, is out there protecting more “delicious civil liberties” (and delicious corporate profits). Their press release on the movie says:
But the images prodding your kids toward the multiplex might be more about animal rights than E.B. White. One Charlotte’s Web commercial airing on Nickelodeon (oddly enough, during an episode of Mr. Meaty) shows heroic bike-riding teens in pig-snout masks “liberating” (read: stealing) a barn full of pigs. Is this illegal? Definitely. Is it appropriate advertising for a G-rated movie? No way.
I should note that the commercial CCF is dubbing a promo for the Animal Liberation Front features “We’re Not Going to Take It” by Twisted Sister. I completely agree that Dee Snider is indeed terrifying and should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.
The scare-mongering goes on to note:
The TV commercial ends with a plea for kids to visit SaveWilbur.com, a Nickelodeon / Paramount website that encourages kids to “Say no to bacon” and print out stickers reading “Tofu Rulez.”
Apparently those extremists at Paramount aren’t just promoting “eco-terrorism.” They’re trying to turn our kids into rampant homosexuals! I urge introduction of the Hollywood and Homosexual Terrorism Act as quickly as possible.
If the Estrogen linked to Soy causes Homosexuality, does that mean Vegan males will: start growing breast, having higher voices, and losing facial hair?
It’s amazing how he expresses hatred of both women and homosexuals simultaneously.
The good news is, he likes soy sauce because it’s fermented, which apparently kills the gay pathogen. Phew.
Oh, and I should add, he also hates any man who deviates from his idea of masculinity.
So I guess I know why I’m a big ol’ queer. All that soymilk and tofu. Maybe if I stop eating it I’ll start wanting to marry a nice lady and settle in the ‘burbs.
There are, in fact, estrogen-like substances in soybeans, but they do not feminize men. They can help prevent prostate cancer in men, whereas studies have shown that cow’s milk can increase the risk of prostate cancer.
So, in fact, tofu and other soy products, far from intering with men’s sexual health, actually improve it.
If the right-wingers want to look for something that really does feminize males, they should look to certain plastics, which do have this effect. But, of course, they won’t do that, because that would be a “green” position–i.e., a position that objects to the proliferation of chemicals which do not exist in nature and to the contamination of the food supply by industrial agriculture.
See “Toxic Deception: How the Chemical Industry Manipulates Science, Bends the Law and Endangers Your Health,” by Dan Fagin, Marianne Lavelle, and the Center for Public Integrity (Monroe, Maine, 1999).
Male homosexuality is not caused by female hormones anyway. Its cause is unknown but may be genetic, and so the whole issue is absurd.
So that explains my ability to play dolls and house with my daughter. I always thought I was being a good parent. Now it all makes sense. Thank you Jim Rutz, you are a true American Patriot. Give yourself a high five!
If all the soy products I’ve been eating for the past ten years haven’t made me gay yet, they aren’t going to.
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I really hate how articles say “studies show” this and “scientific research” proves the other. The problem isn’t just that studies are poorly conducted and funded with certain results in mind, but it is also in the application of studies by people with certain agendas.
I must say, however that i agree that people should not give soymilk to babies - that’s what breastmilk is for!!
Why even entertain this idiot with a response?
Further irony is that Dee Snider is an outspoken advocate for free speech, having fought the “obscenity” labels Tipper Gore pushed onto music, and would probably get a huge laugh out of the CCF’s ridiculous assessment of Charlotte’s Web.
I’m not exactly sure what tofu and homesexuality have in common, but this guy obviously is living his life in a hateful and unehalthy way which maybe turning kids into Raging, Sterotypical, Ignorant, people. I think that’s a lot worse than teaching kids about saving lives and taking care of our environment, don’t you?
Soy contains estrogen-like compounds, not estradiol. The plant sources of estrogen in soy are weak estrogens, approximately 1/1000th the activity of synthetic estrogens. A moderate amount of soy containing foods should not be a problem. Soy products, such as tofu, contain compounds which are very similar in structure and function to estrogen, therefore they have both anti-estrogenic and estrogenic effects. These compounds are called isoflavones.
It is noted in the consensus statement that the safety of isoflavones at specific amounts has not been established and to receive potential health benefits, it is preferable to obtain isoflavones from whole foods. Approximately 25 grams a day of soy protein in soy foods provides approximately 50 mg/day of isoflavones (mg isoflavones=approximately 2X soy protein amount). Average soy protein intake / amount of isoflavones is listed below for the following foods (Soy Protein Partners):
1 cup fortified soy milk: 7 grams of soy protein / 43 mg isoflavones
1/2 cup tofu: 10 grams soy protein / 25 mg isoflavones
1/2 cup cooked soy beans: 14 grams soy protein / 50 mg isoflavones
1/4 cup soy nuts: 15 g protein / 78 mg isoflavones.
I’m really just speechless.
Males could really do well with more “feminizing” And whats wrong with growing breasts? Us men would be more attractive if we had some nice boobs, everyone likes boobs. Hopefully, according to the freaky logic these kooks use, we’ll grow boobs that lactate SOY products (mmm chocolate!) and feed eachother and that will be the end of hunger!
Wow. I really don’t know what to say, there are just so many gems in this ridiculously paranoid and unsubstantiated rhetoric. It seems tofu and soy are really to blame for everything, including obesity. And to think, I suspected it had something to do with massive overconsumption and the 1200+ calorie meals the fast food industry serves up! Somebody should really help all those fat vegans and vegetarians get back on the meat… oh wait… we aren’t fat! The only thing that’s fat here is this guy’s ego. The sad thing is that someone actually published his psuedo-story like it was a legitimate piece. They must have really been hurting for material. Its just too ignorant to even be mad about. Thanks for the laugh Will.
THIS PEICE, I’M SURE, WAS VERY INERESTING, BECAUSE IT THREW ME OFF A BIT. I DON’T READ THESE KIND OF BLOGS MUCH… SO AT FIRST THOUGHT I THOUGHT THE AUTHOR AGREED WITH HIM (JUDGING FROM IT’S TITLE, THEN ACCIDENTLY SPEED READING SO I CAN GIVE A NEGATIVE 2CENTS). THEN I TOOK A SECOND LOOK AT WHAT I WAS ACTUALLY READING, ONLY TO REALIZE HE (WILL POTTER) WAS POSTING THIS ALL IN GOOD FUN. MADE A MOCKERY OF HIM IF YOU ASK ME. THIS BLOG WAS HILARIOUS AND I AM THANKFUL FOR IT, BECAUSE THIS WHOLE BLOG (COMMENTS INCLUDED OF COURSE), IF READ ‘TIL THE END, COULD POSSIBLY TURN A FEW MEAT EATING MORONS AROUND TO EATING HEALTHIER LIKE US VEGANS. ALSO THIS BLOG IS LIKE TAKIN’ ONE OF THOSE MEAT EATERS BY THE SHOULDERS AND THROWIN’ THEM IN FRONT OF A MIRROR THAT SHOWS THEIR INNER MOST STUPIDITY THAT RESIDES IN THE BACK OF THEIR PUNY BRAINS A.K.A. IGNORANCE, AND OF COURSE FEARS A.K.A. PARANOIA. I’M NOT A SELFISH PERSON IT’S ALWAYS GOOD TO SPREAD KNOWLEDGE POSITIVELY ANYWAY YOU CAN AND THIS IS ALSO ONE FORM, WHICH MIGHT I ADD WAS NOTHIN’ NEW, BUT IT WAS CREATIVE & THOUGHTFUL. THANKS AGAIN WILL.
Please, someone tell me this guy is a joke…
How is estrogen going to make one gay, i wonder? I mean i could sprout tits and still prefer women. I really wonder about these Christians who think that they are on the forefront of a battle for their gender identity. I wouldnt mind being gay, im just not.
i quote his article:
“Soy is feminizing, and commonly leads to a decrease in the size of the penis, sexual confusion and homosexuality”
so….someone is obviously feeling the persitend flow towards femininity and scarry gay fantasies, but thinks that he is trying to protect the rest of us from…soymilk?
If this author’s intent was to actually turn people off soy, look at the comments and you can see for yourself the thoughts he has induced. He has made references to completely unrelated subjects to soy including sexual orientation, child development etc and played with their stereotypes.
Obviously he has not chosen his audience well, the comments have a common them which proves that the author should probably a) get a reality check b) grow up c) never write an article of this genre again
Seems to me, being the leader of a megachurch makes you gay.
I am a post operative trans woman. Before my transition I would’ve been considered straight. Now I am considered lesbian. I didn’t become vegetarian until well after making my life change, then I started eating lots of soy products. Why is this relavent? Well I had done some research when I first started taking hormones to find out if there were any natural enhancers of estrogens. I came across Soy Isoflavines. When I asked my endochronologist about it, he recommended not taking added isoflavines for they can actually clog the estrogen receptors on cells with weaker estrogens than the synthetic Estrodial I take. Not because they are bad, but because I was tryign to feminize and isoflavines could slow the process! Soy Isoflavines are usually only supplimented when menapaus starts and natural estrogen production drops. The isoflavines are so weak it is ridiculous to claim that it could feminize or make someone gay. Laughable. People are gay for a variety of reasons, but I doubt any of them are from consumption of isoflavines.
I consume much soy, yet I can guarantee you there is nothing “lacking” in my male anatomy.
Here’s how I know for a fact that soy cannot femenize a man to any notable degree: The men who are thinking of paying thousands for a sex change and those who cannot afford one were not lined up in front of me at the tofu counter today. Case closed.
So yeah, I was raised on soy formula (I got cholic from dairy) and now I’m vegan… but wait shouldn’t I not be engaged to a beautiful woman… Hell my brother had the same problem with dairy and he’s the biggest homophobe out there. So yeah there goes that from personal experience. Additionally, the CCF needs to get thier heads out of thier but or change their name to the Center for Materialistic Freedom, I hate them so much. People need to knock off the scare mongering, and wake up America, this is all done just to take our attention away from larger societal issues.
I really like that in his article he blames SOY based food for causing the obesity epidemic. Really? Seriously?? He honestly believes that the fat people in this country are the ones eating tofu?!? Yeah, sure… THAT’s the cause. People in america are overweight not because they eat buttr and french fries (covered in cheese! and bacon! and dipped in ranch dressing!) and big macs and a little ice cream for dessert. Our country is overweight because of all the goddamn tofu eating vegans.
The comment of this ignorant imbecil is repugnant!! I don’t like to insult anybody, but that’s too much to bear!!! How amazing it is to me that beings with this kind of mentality are still in existence!!! If there is a God please save us from such a creature!!!
Actually its a well documented fact that eating too much chicken makes men grow breasts discovered in Greece when the kids went into national service and ate it every day. I AM NOT TRYING TO ENCOURAGE ALL YOU BREAST LOVING MEN TO GO AND EAT MORE CHICKEN EITHER!!
Soya reduces risk of breast cancer in women too and reduces the symptoms of the menopause. Its all good.
If it turns men gay then what the hell does it do to women? Turn em onto Marilyn Monroe???? hahaha You wish!
The Center for Consumer Freedom has posted a few anti-PETA videos on YouTube (use search query “consumerfreedom” to see all of them). I have posted a few rebuttal videos on my YouTube page (including one regarding Charlotte’s Web); click on my username to go to my YouTube page.
Hormones!!! You don’t know hormone hell till you get to menopause! I was vegetarian for 5 or so years - still gobbling up that dairy and cheese (for my aching arthritis)…. The hot flashes over 6 years were miserable - Went vegan 6 months ago…. within this time my hot flashes has all but disappeared, I lost 20 lbs of “baby fat” and my bones don’t hurt anymore. Animal products as “food” are filled with all sorts of health detracting negatives. For me, the worst of it was the hormones in milk and dairy - And if we must discuss growing breasts - what about the 8 year old girls now, who are entering their menstral cycles years before time because of the RBGH in dairy???? What is milk and meat doing to good little omnivore boys I ask?
For health & heart…. Go Vegan!
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Mmmm soy makes you gay! So everyone in Asia is gay?