The North American Meat Institute

Uh...did you...miss the part where the vegetarian samples were the most likely to be contaminated ones?

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#notallscientist My father is a scientist and pretends to know basically all of the science. He also pretends to know more about my humanities PhD field than me.

My mother was diagnosed with diabetes when she was 7. By the age of 41 she needed a kidney transplant, despite being a damn near perfect match, she refused to allow me to do it. I was 17 at the time and in perfect health (diabetes runs in my mothers family, my sister and I are the only generation (father/child,…

I....cannot actually believe you’re getting so much pushback on this. I thought it was universally accepted in developed nations that having to sell your organs is extremely exploitative and rife with conflict, hence why NONE OF THEM ALLOW IT. Christ.

The studies referenced in the article you linked are from 2010. One by Segev and the other by Ibrahim.

The study citing 80,000 people, refers to living kidney donors listed in OPTN’s database. The problem is - the database is unreliable and invalid. No identifying info on LDs was collected prior to 1993 (name, social…

Yes, but when they collected that data, you could. Most people could not afford to donate a kidney for free. You need to have guaranteed PTO, sick leave, insurance, and income.

are you fucking kidding with this shit?

Except the problem would be poor people selling their kidneys and it’s pretty much a guarantee that lowers your life expectancy and also it allows for rich people to have access to better healthcare and honestly opens up a whole other can of worms.

(I assumed “sarcasm”. After a re-read. I think obvs= /s)

The biggest asshole I have ever encountered in real life was a greasy, disgusting 40+ year old man shopping with his walker using elderly mother who as they walked to their car was screaming at her to hurry up and called her a “Fucking cunt of a mother”. After he crammed the shopping bags in to the trunk, he slammed…

Do you ever think the mothers of people who wear pro life cowboy hats wish they would have gotten an abortion

My exact situation right now! Can’t we just draw a crest or something and just stamp that shit everywhere our name is supposed to go?

I kept my name, my husband kept his names, and we ‘switched off’ with the kids’ names. The first one has my last name and the second one has my husband’s. And it’s NO PROBLEM!! People don’t even realize we all have different names. Teachers and other kids who know one of my children assume their sibling and parents…

I had a Polish name. On standardized tests, it took up every space allocated for last names. In addition, it began with a letter at the end of the alphabet (which often meant being at the back of the pack when we had to line up alphabetically to go anywhere in school), so my eight-year-old self promised my unborn…

Try being Polish and hyphenating, there is not a form on the planet where you’ll fit.

Nothing besides “take your husbands name” has become even marginally mainstream enough to not merit side eye and questions

Funny! I love to touch hair, and I love for my hair to be touched. Having someone else braid me is one of the best sensations!