I also feel that targeting small scale farms is sort of pointless for the cause of animal rights, and people willing to watch their food die earn the least of my ire... but there are plenty of environmental and ethical reasons why a person might believe that consuming animal products is wrong, and a lot of vegans…

If I became a dermatologist, would I get to drain things like that all the time? I know that that's like the most evil thing a socially conscious young medical student could want to be... Just asking for a friend...

I'm confused why people are so upset at this woman for wanting to throw chicks in the garbage. Standard egg industry practice is literally to run male chicks through a souped up garbage disposal... and while it's frowned upon, it's not unusual to literally dump them into garbage bags and from there to the dumpster out…

How does this shit even happen?

I'm really confused about how people wipe when sitting. Like, I can't get my head around how that works wiping front to back.

Yes! I've had a lot of people asking me how this happened. People have no sense of what personal protective equipment looks like or how it's put on and removed. They just imagine it's like a force shield that appears around you and the only way someone could get infected is if the disease somehow magically got through…

I continue to find her explanations for things that happen on this show incredibly disappointing. I just had to stop watching.

More than even cravings, pregnant women seem get a LOT of pressure to gain weight and eat more. I've watched so much food just SHOVED at unwilling pregnant women like not eating it is a) somehow bad for their fetus and b) a huge affront to other women because it implies something about their own eating habits...…

This!

I don't get the hatred for vegetarians and vegans. I just don't. I say this as a quasi-vegan vegetarian who eats whatever the hell is served to me in other people's homes out of respect, of course. Killing things isn't my problem with meat or animal products. Waste is my issue.

My dad traumatized me by shaving his mustache off once when I was about 3! It was horrible. This random guy came upstairs when I was napping, and I was so scared that I had a whole conversation with him before understanding that it was my dad. It was so scary that I remember it to this day.

I'm definitely worried about the larger costs in the system of that kind of testing...

I'm wondering the SAME THING as a medical student. As we've started doing physical exams, I'm becoming really aware of how much obesity is going to impact my ability to provide good care. I mean, the research and everything is one thing, seeing patients with mobility issues related to lifelong obesity was another…

Maybe I've worked in too many nursing homes, but being a teenager with a seventy year old parent sounds exhausting. Even people in great health can have accidents at that age that leave them completely dependent—you should see some of the minor accidents that broke hips or fractured vertebrae and how people who…

You mean that a business model that involves selling extreme visual access to women's bodies particularly in the context of an industry that is not technically "sex work" often results in the actual sale of sex?

Thankfully (or not if you like library sex), they're not private at all. Pictures from Huffington Post show an alcove (so not even a room with a door) with several cots set up in it.

Remember that it's a restaurant. I don't know if you've spent much time in the back of one, but food is packaged very differently than on grocery market shelves. When sold it bulk the individual packages within boxes are frequently unlabeled. The containers are often opaque silver or white plastic bags with just a…

That's the breeding. They have abnormally short legs. Think like a dachsund, except instead of being bred slowly into a weird conformation over several generations they're a spontaneous mutation that probably affects growth factor sensitivity or something. Apparently it isn't true dwarfism exactly. The wikipedia…

Apparently they're not completely dwarves, but the mutation is homozygous lethal. So basically if you breed two of them together, a quarter of offspring are not viable and a quarter are not munchkins. Presumably for the sake of health you'd breed non-munchkin to munchkin... but then you'd be getting half of offspring…

And munchkins of all things, too. They're really cute, sure, but the health of them is a considered a bit dubious/controversial. I'm sort of uncomfortable with breeding animals in a way that compromises their mobility or purposefully introduces a lethal mutation just for the sake of appearances. After all, munchkins…