You know how sometimes mean kids in the lunch room will see cottage cheese or tuna fish in someone's lunch will make a whole show of saying, "ieeeew, how can you eat that?!" and then the recipient of the comment quietly puts away the food and spends the rest of the day in a stew of hunger and shame and never wants to…

...And I've never seen a vegetarian do any of those things, either. That's the whole point. Maybe you shouldn't believe every little story about vegetarians you read on reddit.

To be fair, can't that argument be leveled against anyone who refrains from anything for moral reasons?

Yes, and you will find several more studies that say the same, and several more that say the opposite. Nutrition science reporting is so fad-based.

No joke. I'm living in the Deep South now with my vegan partner, and I feel like it's our mission to prove that not all vegans are like Morrissey. But being a vegan diplomat gets exhausting in a place where crawfish and shrimp are considered vegetables.

I was going to go into the correlation/causation confusion, self-reporting, and selection bias, but I got distracted by the cross-sectional survey study and wild jump to an unsupported conclusion.

I cannot turn on the television, open a magazine, go online, or even drive down a road in my city without encountering meat culture. When I walk down the street, I smell cooking flesh, and I hear people say that it smells delicious. I see ads with people devouring blood-dripping flesh - and it's meant to be sexy. …

It's hardly surprising that those people already anxious about the world and their place in it might gravitate toward vegetarianism as an animal rights issue. But that's me making an assumption—same as this article is doing buttloads of.

Ughghghg, if I had a dollar for every time someone finds out I'm vegan and is all "I really wish I could be vegan, I just love cheese to much..." Shut up, shut up! I didn't tell you to make you feel guilty! We all make our choices! *stomps away*

Thank you. I'm not a vegetarian (though I was for a long time, and still eat relatively little meat), but I was reading this and going "not causation." LOTS of people end up on vegetarian diets in order to help deal with existing health issues already.

It seems more likely that people who suffer from disorders, chronic diseases, and anxiety/depression would be more likely to become vegetarians than the other way around. If you have health problems, you're probably going to be messing with your food intake, vitamins/minerals, exercise routine, etc. in order to see if…

Can we officially declare anti-vegetarians as more irritating then vegetarians already? I've witnessed vegetarians living up to the "smug, self-righteous" stereotype maybe once in my life. Yet hardly a week goes by where I don't witness meat-eaters making a bunch of shrill remarks about how insufferable vegetarians…

Grist had a good take on this by pointing out that the study divided meat-eaters into a group that also ate lots of fruits and vegetables, and a group that didn't, and it was the meat + veggies + fruit group that was healthier than the vegetarians. So, you might see a different trend if you split the vegetarians into…

Vegetarians reported higher levels of impairment from disorders, chronic diseases, and "suffer significantly more often from anxiety/depression."

Next time I click on Jezebel science analysis, I'll just cut the middle man and get straight to banging my head against a wall.

Eh. These are probably "vegetarians," meaning those people who were not raised vegetarian and therefore have no fucking clue how to cook vegetarian food. I could cite some anecdata wherein my Indian great-grandfather, grandfather, grandmother, grandfather's sisters lived well into their hundreds after eating a…

What really keeps pissing me off is all the people who know exactly why someone else finds it funny. Some people probably do find it funny for the "wrong" reasons, but the idea that everyone does or that anyone knows how many people are laughing at it for which reason is stupid.

Leggings are pants. If someone would like to argue that fact, then we are going to have to set a guideline for what pants are then. Do they have to have a zipper? Buttons? What is it exactly that makes leggings not pants? Because if you say opacity, well, no. There are a lot of pants that are pants that are made out…

sorry about your limited knowledge about human psychology but being unable to react is common behaviour for humans in a situation of traumatic experience.