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But quite frankly I'd argue to vegan that the plant itself grew from soil with animal matter in it anyway

Simpler and more direct than that. Grains can contain by FDA regulation up to certain percentages of insect parts. I've found the little green inchworms in bags of frozen raspberries. Can you really avoid "animal products" even if you're going to be so picky that you'll eschew sugar because it might have been filtered through charcoal made from bones? This puts it rather succintly.

To avoid all unsavory food components, it seems, would be to stop eating all together.

And when they say "unsavory food components", they're referring to insect and rodent contamination. I.e., animal parts.

Your friends aren't vegetarian if they eat meat.

Your friends aren't very good at being "vegetarian" if they have to eat meat occasionally. It's not difficult to consume a vegetarian diet without nutritional supplements. It doesn't really involve more research than a healthy, balanced diet containing meat either, which most people don't do. If you look at studies, the average diet of a person in the US (aka the average diet that involves meat) is deficient in seven nutrients. Meanwhile, vegans in Germany are, on average, deficient in only three.

I've heard that speeding isn't the leading, so some research:
Distracted Driving (speeding #2)
Distracted Driving (Speeding #4)
Not using turn signals 2x worse than distracted driving?
distracted driving
Disparities noticed:
Fatigue: #20 in the first list, #2 in the second

Anyways, I like being distracted; I don't particularly like driving. Bring on the self-driving vehicles! Or other way I can get to work/store without having to be behind the wheel.

Yes the weekday is significant but not as significant as the age of the boy's. You also have to factor in that there globally are about 105-107 boys born for every 100 girls. At age of 36, women outnumber men and at the age of 100, women outnumber men eight to one. So in order to calculate a better answer you need to add the fact that they all three seem to be alive. Unfortunately I don't have the math for it.

http://www.sixwise.com/newsletters/05/06/22/why-are-more-boys-than-girls-being-born.htm/

They won because we (Americans, Europeans) are stupid cowards. Your chances of being killed by terrorists in the US and Europe are vanishingly small. One estimate puts it at one in 10 million per year, about the same as being eaten by a shark and a thousand times less likely than being killed in a house fire.

(source was http://www.sixwise.com/newsletters/05/07/13/the_six_most_feared_but_least_likely_causes_of_death.htm, now independent verification)

Another statistic gives 22000 worldwide deaths / year from terrorism compared with 57 million from other causes.

What is the big deal? Why should I give up freedoms, privacy and time for this?

I fly very frequently and I am not afraid of terrorists. I'd be happy to walk through a metal detector set to pick up conventional guns, and run my luggage (laptop still in case) through an X-ray to look for obvious weapons. When terrorists down a US airline every month for a year we can talk again.

Feces in your cake? It's more likely than you think.