Yeah. I've got no problem with people who choose to get pets instead of have kids. Go for it. Knock yourselves out. The less people reproducing, the better.

Also, don't fucking buy a dog. Adopt a dog. Holy hell, it's 2014.

I am firmly in camp dog.

Counterpoint: Fewer babies.

Sigh you are sadly correct. However if you try to launch an actual science discussion about why peoples beliefs are wrong with actual scientific data then you will be eviscerated. I gave up trying and just occasionally rant now. Not that it makes me much better but sigh it gets tiring. Nutrition is the latest my…

Yeah, a girl I knew in college had it as did two of her three siblings. She'd already seen her best friend die and knew that she wasn't going to have a long life. She got a boyfriend and had her tubes tied because she knew she could not survive a pregnancy. Died at 24—just had a totally different perspective on…

Absolutely. I have a friend with cf, and like many people with it he has had periods where things have been worse and periods where things have been better but always edging towards the inevitable major surgeries and transplants. Treatment may be getting better, but life expectancy is still so incredibly short.…

This "article" is so incredibly RUDE, BIASED and offensive it is an EMBARRASSMENT that Jezebel even posted it. One study only says so much.

Referring to "us normals" is exclusive and something one would expect to hear in a mean girl movie. No matter what your opinion on vegetarianism, it is always rude to criticizes…

Well when you can't quite figure out statistics, you say "Confound it all!" That's a confound.

Yeah, can we re-visit the whole correlation is not causation thing? A vegetarian diet does not LEAD to anxiety, avoidance of vaccinations, a lack of preventative care etc. It simply means that many people who are vegetarians also happen to live a lifestyle that embraces "alternative" medicine, and eschew traditional,…

Thankyou! Reading this made my head hurt with from all of the leaping to conclusions and lack of proper analysis of the methods used to get these results. Really wish they would have a proper scientist at Jez, not someone who sees a scientific study and automatically thinks its true, because science.

Correlation is not causation.

You suck. There, I said it. Can we run a study now to establish a relationship between smugness and being a writer for Jezebel? This is needlessly attacking a minority group of people for a life choice they have made that ultimately doesn't effect you that much.

My pleasure! Thanks to this article I now get to feel like I'm living life on the edge ;-)

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.

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.

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…

I wish we didn't have to be so goddamn antagonistic toward each other. Vegetarians and vegans can be healthy — amazingly so, if they pay close attention to their diets. They can also eat nothing but deep fried onion rings (completely vegan!) all day. Same goes for omnivores. I get that this is supposed to be tongue in…