its a question i get often.but after over 2.5 years 100% raw vegan and remembering how i felt compared to how i feel now? remembering the increase i had in vo2max i got when i went raw...etc etc.

i did my years of transitioning between cooked vegan and raw vegan. you think the dude that holds the volume eating record of 5 gourmet tofu burgers at australias longest running vegan cafe (vego n lov'n it, rundle st, adelaide) would give up cooked food without some hardcore personal experimenting to forge new beliefs based on my own conclusions?

i can eat the same amount of calories from fruit as i did cooked food to fuel my training and feel better off...its win win for me. win, win for the organic farmers, win win for the extra trees(animal habitat) needed, win win for the water and environment saved. win win for planetary karma.

sure i can hang with my cooked mates and some of their vegan dishes smell nice and familar. but it ends there. its just a smell now. for me fruit smells better, tastes better, feels better and i live better for it. as a vegan, having my calories coming from fruit trees which support animal life instead of cutting down trees to plant mono grain crops..it makes sense. those that dont believe me or dont want to believe me can just go spend a few days in either..youll see what i mean.

but seeing the lame excuse for fruit in most supermarkets worldwide...i dont blame crew for freak'n when they think thats the schwag they got live off..im talking hardraw, foraged, or local or organic gourmet flava, taste bud kick'n fruit that totally changes your personal references of what that fruit should taste like..

granted i know that many crew live in non fruit areas..do what you can do. heck ive had people come back from thailand and say' oh it would be hard to be raw there!' lol!

i say, 'a raw miracle is simply a shift in perception'..

its easy for me cos ive set up my lifestyle to support my lifestyle. i mingle with like minded crew. my main competition in radelaide for quality fruit is freelea, i know that my family is sincere yet sincerely wrong when they give me health advice as they take drugs to numb reality, pain and or cooked health issues.

i know that i live in a cooked society that not only accepts cooked but encourages it via tv, radio, mail, street smells, festivals, holiday traditions etc. i must continue my time in raw nature as a reminder that the world is meant to be raw, that everyone was born raw and raw is our birthright. just as free food and shelter should be avaliable to all. but it isnt..cooked corporations are to blame. corporations that rely on public ignorance and chronic apathy.

i also understand that most people live in a family, relationship, community, work setting that opposes raw. just like in the days when smoking was more accepted and you couldnt speak out. times are a chang'n and tell the crew that make diss your food choices that youll be chang'n decks if they dont start accept'n you for whom you are.

society seems to be stuck in war filled strife while some of us choose to live the raw filled life. i guess it comes down to wanting it. like anything in life, raw is worth working for.

if we dont stand for something, we stand for nothing.


this is what i call bite sized baby! a foraged ripe persimmon...

<<There is a certain fear with going 100% raw. Its like diving off a height.>>
Yep! Don't I know it ha ha!  Yep, I am all for trying anyway. I think curiosity is one good reason. 

<<f we dont stand for something, we stand for nothing. >>

Yep, but (no but yeah but no but yeah but lol!) raw is not everything. Love is. The most beautiful souls out there are defined not by being raw but by being the most loving beings.

Gosia

Harley wrote..
i know that i live in a cooked society that not only accepts cooked but encourages it via tv, radio, mail, street smells, festivals, holiday traditions etc. i must continue my time in raw nature as a reminder that the world is meant to be raw, that everyone was born raw and raw is our birthright. just as free food and shelter should be avaliable to all. but it isnt..cooked corporations are to blame. corporations that rely on public ignorance and chronic apathy.
[/quote]That's a really profound post Harls and I couldn't agree more...

Hey did you eat the last of the persimmons? Not very smart ;-P

    Why would I ever go back to a cooked diet when I can go to a rawfood potluck and be surrounded by vibrantly handsome men !!! 

In the last 3 years of being mostly raw and attending Sydney potlucks I have met some incredibly energetic, good-natured males who take pride in their bodies and, through raw food become individuals that we could all aspire to be.  Raw men are an asset to the world -   Go guys.   

Nothing against the girls       but I used to think it was mainly the females who gravitated towards this kind of lifestyle, glad I am wrong.........

joybell    "choose to live a life that matters"