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Hey, thanks for asking! Kid is almost 4 now and doing great. She eats a pretty varied diet, fortunately-- if she were picky, I expect we'd have had to have made some changes early.…

As a ~7 year vegan, I eat a fair number of substitutes. As others have said, I don't do it for my health or because I don't like the taste of meat. That said, in line with the arti…

To be fair, the Simpsons poked fun at itself for exactly this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axHoy0hnQy8

Thank you! It's definitely worth dipping your toes, I'd say. I made the call to try it at 29 and matriculated at 32. There's one person in my class who is a decade older than me, a…

Great hearing from you! I think you're taking a wise approach. I inverted things from the way that you did them-- I spent a year studying for the MCAT alongside work (had taken all…

I left tech ~6 years ago to pursue medical school. I'll be graduating and starting residency soon. A significant number of my classmates express regret for choosing medicine, and a…

I fully understand what you're saying, but it's somewhat skew to the point I'm trying to make. The people I'm talking about are the ones who have already baked health effects of th…

Not here to proselytize about your lifestyle choices, and I've certainly enjoyed my fair share of smoking and drinking myself over the years. That said, as someone who works daily …

This person is right that hospitals, or health care systems in general should be working on this. It's more complicated than simply not helping people who won't help themselves. Th…

Yep, pain at the infusion site is an incredibly common complaint with potassium IV. The person you replied to is talking confidently outside of their expertise.

I think the piece you're both referencing is here: https://kotaku.com/how-elmo-ruined-sesame-street-1746504585

It's fascinating to me that everywhere that I've traveled and lived in South America (including Colombia), people seem to have this narrative about the locals that they'll "just sh…

I've not really encountered the idea that it's unnatural exploitation, to be honest, and I completely agree with your point there. The core ethical argument that I generally see pr…

Whoa, I'm an ethical vegan and pretty steeped in theory, and I've never encountered this wing before. I doubt I'll agree with them, but I'd be curious to read if you have anything …

Haha, yeah, fair. I imagine the cats that do live there are probably enjoying themselves through this but have had their capacity overwhelmed.

It sounds like the numbers they're dealing with may be well beyond what could be controlled by cats. Additionally, they may be wary, as Australia is already a case study in what ca…

Yeah, your logic is pretty good here. Prions are a super interesting emergent phenomenon of a complex system. In a weird way, like cancer or viruses, they're just an inevitability …

So denaturing a protein generally involves interfering with the noncovalent interactions (e.g. hydrogen bonds, attractions between internal charges) that allow it to fold into the …

Maximal extraction of resources would involve focusing on eating plants. Feeding the plants to animals and then eating them is tremendously inefficient in terms of both calories an…

Maybe I wasn't specific enough here. When I said "smaller peptides," I should have instead written "free amino acids, dipeptides and tripeptides." The two papers you cited refer to…

Do you have a source for this? As far as I know, there is no way for the body to uptake and employ collagen directly. It needs to be broken down into smaller peptides, absorbed, an…

Ha-- having been in that situation this past October, that simple description is incredibly evocative for me. Even in that dazed, sleepless state, though, I remember a sudden upwel…

The hunter-gatherer argument also fails an important sniff test for me. Evolutionarily-driven arguments fail to take into account that what may have been sufficient outcomes to dri…

I think it's just easier to call it meat because it makes clear what dietary/textural/taste role it is supposed to fill. The spot is already cut out in people's schemata. Maybe lan…

The overwhelming majority (95-99%, from what I can find) of cattle in the United States are fed corn or soy. 98% of soy and 48.7% of all corn grown in the United States are used to…