Comments on: Is Raw Veganism Really Extreme?

By: Get Skinny, Go Vegan

Get Skinny, Go Vegan — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 03:21:57 +0000

Fruit Loops are extreme.
Apples, oranges, and nuts are not!!

By: Vegan Girl

Vegan Girl — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 06:11:48 +0000

So hearing you Damien!

By: Damien

Damien — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 06:16:55 +0000

What’s extreme about eating food in its natural state? I don’t eat much raw myself, but that’s only because of lifelong conditioning against it by a society that doesn’t understand how to relate well to its food. If you really want to label a diet “extreme”, you can’t beat the over-processed fat-laden completely unnatural “Standard American Diet”, which bears not even a passing resemblance to anything natural.

By: Vegan Girl

Vegan Girl — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 01:04:34 +0000

Hey Vanessa, yes Los Angelenos are definitely spoiled for choice when it comes to veganism and raw veganism. It’s a pretty special place and GREAT if you’re a vegan! I totally sympathise re: not having any vegan restaurants where you live. I’m now experiencing the same. What a change! Means spending loads more time in the kitchen, that’s for sure.

Robert (I believe) was referring to the Standard American Diet (SAD) which consists of a lot of fried foods, meat and such, which I’m guessing you don’t qualify for

Thanks for voting!

By: Vanessa Lackford

Vanessa Lackford — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:34:41 +0000

The opening statement of your post tells me a lot – your favourite raw vegan restaurant in LA had closd down. This implies that there are others in LA! In Cornwall, UK, there is not even a vegan restaurant, there are several excellent vegetarian ones, being vegetarian is considered fairly commonplace nowadays, but vegan, as we have ourselves become recently, is far less well understood/accepted. So, to be raw foodist as well, would be considered so way off the map as to be almost unheard of by most people in this part of UK, big cities are of course different. We have had guests stay who eat raw, and have provided interesting (I think!) food for them and my interest in raw foods has been awakened. that is why i had to vote for not considering it ‘normal’, from a purely statistical point of view nowadays. the comments by Robert are interesting, although i do not think I am sad!

By: Vegan Girl

Vegan Girl — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:50:44 +0000

It’s fascinating Robert, to see it spelled out like that. From a health perspective, I know since eating raw, I’ve never felt or functioned better. There is a clarity and joie de vivre that I never experienced when every meal I ate was cooked/dead.

By: Robert

Robert — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:37:57 +0000

Anthropologists say the human species has been around for about a million years. For the first 990,000 of those years (99% of our total existence) we ate, as all primates do, an almost exclusively plant based, raw vegan diet. So in terms of the big picture of human existence, we raw vegans are the overwhelming mainstream while the SAD cooked eaters are the weird fringe.

Study after study links animal foods to cancer. Show me a single one that says fruits and vegetables are unhealthy.

And not only do humans need far less protein than the mainstream would have you believe (human milk is only 6% protein), we get it unadulterated and easily assimilated directly as amino acids from plants. So again, contrary to what the mainstream claims, plant protein is clearly superior and definitely more healthy.

Raw vegans, take heart in your well chosen approach to nutrition!

By: Vegan Girl

Vegan Girl — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:16:57 +0000

Thanks guys, so great to read your thoughts on the subject! Eric, I’ll see what I can do about adding that extra question—great point

By: Tamar

Tamar — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:06:01 +0000

Hi there,

I definitely don’t think raw is extreme, but I have noticed a few things about eating at raw food restaurants: 1) there is an over-reliance on nuts and 2) sometimes the food is really oversalted.

I am not 100% raw by any means, but try to eat as much raw vegetable food as I can handle – I particularly love raw black(lacinato) kale with avocado!

By: Shweta

Shweta — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:33:38 +0000

Hi,
Being born in an indian lacto-ovo-vegetarian family,I never find it difficult to be a vegan in terms of taste and missing dairy, but now i am in the transition state to go on high raw path as vwell as getting better health( my all the friends and family who is mostly vegetarian,has difficult time to understand my organic high raw diet even) except my hubby .So I don’t blame people not understanding raw vegan diet.But we being in minority might have to struggle to find our place in society, but if we are right people will follow us eventually.I actually have high respect for people who being meat eaters are able to be vegan,when I myself being born vegetarian cann’t even leave dairy and eggs.
But I myself being born in India do consume raw milk(mainly raw buttermilk usualy.As according to Ayurveda and our hinduism belief, is one of the great superfood always offered to gods ) So my belief system also doesn’t let me go 100% vegan as honey and milk(both raw though) are highly prized in my tradition, where i have seen people live almost to 90 years life without chronic conditins.Definetly when i say highly prized, its written in our scriptures how to treat animal ( not the way they are treated in factory farms here) As mahatama Ghandi says”The progress of a nation can be judged by how do they treat there animals”
So here when i buy raw milk, i make sure i get from grass fed ,free range cows.treated with love…and so do honey….

just my 2 cents

Shweta:)