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buy an instant pot and stop torturing yourself.

No, didn't you read the article? It's actually quite elegant research -- DNA-based, not a statistical post-facto look at various cancers.

This sort of research is important because it helps us figure out the 'why', not the 'what', and this ties into personal genetics. For instance, people with ALDH2 mutations can minimise alcohol intake (perhaps by diluting wine with plain water, as the ancient Romans, Jews and Greeks used to).

This article even argues dilution, paradoxically, can make the drink experience better:
https://www.thekitchn.com/addi...

What you're avoiding is that some animals have nervous systems and cognition. If you respect intelligence and sentience, that should be protected. Cows are not stupid. Pigs are quite smart. Plants have basically nothing going on beyond failure sensors. Comparing all as if equal is really dumb, in my view.

So you will eat anything that isn't sentient? You just fell into the trap that has vegans arguing about whether oysters are vegan or not.

https://www.thekitchn.com/what...

I make my decisions on what to eat by what my body was designed to eat. Humans are by nature omnivores. That some would adopt a prey diet, and try to justify it on ethical grounds is just another inconsistency in their logic. Is a vulture evil? Is a lion or other frank carnivore evil? Is a horse or Pika good because they eat only vegetation? Humans are a part of nature. We do have the ability to choose to harvest the meat that we eat in as humane way as possible, which I wholeheartedly believe in.

But we are still omnivores.

Exactly what nutrients are you losing by peeling the apple?

You lose very little. It is a myth that the nutrients are concentrated in the peel. So peel guilt free. Or even better, just don't eat apples. Nutritionally, they are one of the worst fruits. Peaches, pears, cherries, watermelon, oranges, bananas, and even tomatoes or bell peppers, have far more good stuff in them.

Downside : a normal coffee brew process generates 6-12 cups of Joe.

I guess we could all switch to a press ... but that's a bit messy and requires a stand alone heating method (I've not the space to keep a proper tea kettle on my office desk)

Keurig provides a clean single-cup solution

Unfortunately these pods wind up making your coffee cost $51 bucks a pound, as opposed to bags of coffee @ 6-7 bucks a pound.

For example, the Nespresso Arpeggio costs $5.70 for 10 espresso capsules, while the Folgers Black Silk blend for a K-Cup brewed-coffee machine is $10.69 for 12 pods. But that Nespresso capsule contains 5 grams of coffee, so it costs about $51 a pound. And the Folgers, with 8 grams per capsule, works out to more than $50 a pound.

http://www.thekitchn.com/51-pe...

The good news is that you can make one cup of good drip coffee with a single cup coffee filter that rests on the cup and uses regular ground coffee. They can be had for less than six bucks:
http://quetico.org/index.cfm?f...
http://ezway.en.ec21.com/EZ_Wa...
http://teeccino.com/product/81...
http://fantes.com/coffee-manua...

Allow me to blow your mind: One ingredient ice cream

B12 is produced by microorganisms, and apparently that's where most animals get their B12 from -- e.g., eating soil.

Cyanocobalamin is the usual B12 supplemental form and can be obtained in tablet form over the counter or from supplemented foods.

Nutritional yeast is usually supplemented with B12, though the amount varies. Looking at a few labels: KAL Yeast Flakes lists "150% Daily Value" in 3 rounded tablespoons; Red Star Yeast VSF (flakes) lists 8 micrograms or "133% Daily Value" in 2 heaping tablespoons; and impressively, Twinlab SuperRich Yeast Plus lists 25 micrograms or "416%" in 2 tablespoons.

Many people find that nutritional yeasts taste good. I sprinkle yeast flakes on popcorn and mix yeast into soup or over pasta both for the nutritional boost and because it's a source of umami flavor:

http://www.thekitchn.com/umami-for-vegans-136507

Brits and Aussies have Marmite and its clones:

http://www.marmite.com/love/nutrition/vitamin-b12.html

The worst part came at the end, when the enormous cracked-in-half bones were taken out of the boiling pot and given to each of the diners. Waiters showed up with plastic straws. I stood horrified as each of the diners stuck the straw into the broken end of the bone and slurped out the by-now-almost-liquified marrow.

Marrow is eaten in almost all cultures ... it's full of fat and things that people find tasty.

Examples include Ossubuco (which you can probably find pretty readily), roasted bones with the marrow still in 'em, and probably more (OK, those two examples are probably close to the same thing).

Back when people didn't have the luxury of only buying the pretty bits at the supermarket, people basically ate the whole animal. I know loads of people who will feast out on tendon or pig ears -- it's not for me (I don't eat meat), but it's not really surprising that people eat it. Asia and some food-revivalists seem to be the last bastions of eating all of the obscure bits of an animal. The sheer number of foodies nowadays probably makes some of this stuff even more common.

I figure if you're gonna eat animals, embrace the horror, and try all of the parts. Who knows, you could find something you can't live without.