Um, hello. Organic unicorn farts, and free-range angel tears.

“the company cut the amount of zinc oxide in the tubes from 20 percent to 9.3 percent.”

The white means it’s working, dummies! I’m a swimmer, and I use a physical sunblock with titanium dioxide/zinc oxide on my face and shoulders because it’s the only thing that prevents me from burning when I’m swimming for an hour+. With those sunscreens, you don’t want to use so little or rub it in so much that you…

Stop science-ing on these pearl clutchers.

This is particularly funny because, even by the standards of the “chemicals are scary” crowd, there’s nothing terribly “artificial” about zinc oxide. Zinc is a mineral, it's mined out of the ground, either as metallic zinc or as a component of various ores. You heat it up until it vaporizes, and it reacts with oxygen…

As someone who gets pink in about 15 mins of sun, this would make me FURIOUS

Listen, I get the point you’re trying to make and as a pacifist I don’t disagree with you, but this article isn’t about her being a former Marine. I feel 100% comfortable celebrating someone that takes any step to truly being themselves.

But when you eat a pet, you can taste all the love you’ve put in to that pet. (Joking, I’m Joking...)

Procecco? They drink Moscato or Rose now.

Everyone already jumped on that one sufficiently, but the slavery analogy is my LEAST FAVORITE vegan talking point and just makes anyone who says it sound like a total asshole.

If the orangutan who is fed well, looked after, and lives in general tranquility and longed to escape, what do other animals who lives in cages and on factory farms feel?

And an even bigger difference between farming and slavery.

Between yoga workouts, a privileged white woman wipes off her cucumber facial scrub, sets down her glass of Prosecco, and widens her eyes at her latest brilliant epiphany.

Soon, I hope, like drunk driving, wife beating, excluding people from the right to vote or marry, we will be able to see that killing animals for sport or for flavor is also barbarism

I’m a vegetarian. I was a vegan for 7 years. The entire time I was reading this, I wanted someone to throw a fucking shoe at you. It’s like you’re so close to having a point and then you suddenly see a cliff and think, “I SHOULD JUMP OFF OF THIS CLIFF OF ABSURDITY INSTEAD!” Stop. Please. Just stop.

This proposal is equivalent in many ways to “humane” slavery:

I think - sorry - there is a pretty big difference between eating chicken and poaching a critically endangered animal from a place where white westerners have plundered resources and abused the land for hundreds of years.

I was following along until you compared open range cow farms to slavery. Then you kind of lost me.

Temple Grandin sagely points out that livestock exist largely so we can eat them. If we did not, they would not live at all. It is our responsibility to see that their lives are not living hells, but it is perfectly okay to kill and eat them, so long as we do so humanely.