Plant-based burgers will make men grow boobs, Livestock News reports

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As a man-boob Carrier since a kid, my diet very seldomly had any sort of fast food. I don't want to imagine how I'd turn out if I had a fast food diet...

Maybe you'd be like Bob from Fight Club.

The theory seems to be that there is quite a lot of estrogen in the plant burgers (44 mg in the impossible whopper), tho I cannot find a reputable source for this using neither Google, bing or duckduckgo.

That being said, a lot of vegetarian and (especially) vegan options do contain soy which is suspected of mimicking estrogen in the human body.

Eating at burger king meat or no meat will make men grow boobs.

I ate a whooper a day at lunch for a year. Boobs, belching and otherwise ill-health followed.

The myth is more about being "feminized" rather than just the physical appearance of boobs. Boobs are acceptable because so many men have had them for so long but being "feminized" seems like a lot more scary prospect.

Their pen writes that plant-based burgers lead to man boobs, but what they are thinking is "please, please do not abandon meat burgers."

Culturally, that is a type of false fear tactic used by some parents to get their unruly children to avoid a behaviour.

This sort of propaganda can also backfire because inducing breast growth on girls isn't exactly something that's frowned upon by society.

Tried the Impossible Whopper. Wasn't rally that great anyway.

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