When Australian author and neuroscientist Colleen McCullough died last year, one of the premier national newspapers printed this as the opening of her obituary...

Probably depends on the country.

Yes, some boutique cheeses still use the original rennet. Most mass-produced ones now use an artificially-produced enzyme that does the same thing, but is suitable for vegetarians. But yeah, I’m not holding my breath on the guy in the original article applying logic to his food choices.

My first thought on reading this was the outfit worn by Australian runner Cathy Freeman when she won gold in the 400m at the 2000 Sydney Olympics. She isn’t Muslim. I’m not sure what the intent of the outfit was, but it was during the “clothing as competitive edge” era, so it was probably something to do with that.

If the logic is “the parent organism remains alive if I take this product from it”, there’s no reason for fruitarians not to eat cheese. Is the cow dead? No. What’s the problem?

Organic farming is actually more environmentally damaging than conventional farming. Not using GMO crops means the farmers have to rely solely on spraying to protect against pests and diseases*. Organic pesticides are less effective than standard pesticides and have to be used more often and in larger quantities. But…

If the logic is “the plant remains alive if I take this part of it”, you could actually have quite a varied diet. Tomatoes, gourds like pumpkin and squash, cucurbits like zucchini, cucumber and eggplant are all technically fruit. Seeds, the biological point of fruit, would also be fine. So add in nuts, sunflower…

An overweight breatharian? Oh yeah, he’s abiding by that...

...eating disgustingly is one of the few pleasures that even the Devil himself can’t pry from my hands (they’re too slick with grease for him to get a good grip).

Craaaaaaaaaaap. Oh, that is nasty. Damn, I may never be able to watch BB again, I’ll be too stressed out wondering if this is one of the cartoons he uses racial slurs...

Amateurs. Disney are the real masters of WTF source material. This is the company that disregarded the historical record so they could have Pocahontas fall in love with a white guy. And someone in Disney read Notre Dame of Paris and thought yeah, we can retcon this into a kids’ movie. So odd.

Two words. Snyder. Flint.

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I once had to teach sex ed to a class of 13-year olds. The boys were thunderstruck to learn girls don’t pee out of our vaginas, and absolutely flattened to learn we have an entirely separate urethral opening. ‘What...so girls have three holes???’. Sigh.

Cool, we can agree to disagree.

Your logical fallacy is Strawman. Of course there are beautiful women working in STEM fields...like Ms. Kragic, for instance. It would be absurd as assume all women working in STEM are fat, ugly and uninterested in their appearance...which is why I didn’t do it. I’m also impressed by your complicated allegation that…

I very much hope so.

I actually changed my son’s name legally. Because of a complicated family tradition, we always called him by his middle name. But the school had to print his legal name on the school rolls, and he hated it. So we switched it so that his middle name (which everyone knew him as) became his legal name, and his former…

Well, that was dumb. If you’re going to make those kinds of assertions about the potential FLOTUS during the Presidential campaign, you need to check your damn facts before you publish, not after.

Yep, because harming people’s self image using socially constructed ideals of beauty to sell products is exactly the same as deciding who’s better at catching a ball. I’m pointing out this campaign is a bait-and-switch. Standard adverts, fashion and modelling rely on pure physical attractiveness, and that’s fair…