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Sep 22, 2014 - 10:02 AM
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Rollin Hand
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The food-processing industry offer products that are treated with pesticides, fertilizers and chemicals and therefore are modified: GMO (Genetically Modified Organism). In other words, they fashion dead food.
In the last two decades, it was reported in the western world, a rise of cancer, obesity, allergies, mental diseases.
A minority of farmers produce "natural" fruits and vegetables—chemical free—and create a "bio" market sold and distributed independently.
1. Do you consume such bio food?
2. What is the type of diet do you apply?
raw diet
cooked diet
vegetarian diet : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetarianism
vegan diet : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veganism
fruit diet : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruitarianism
Nota Bene
There are a number of vegetarian diets, which exclude or include various foods.
1. Ovo vegetarianism includes eggs but not dairy products.
2. Lacto vegetarianism includes dairy products but not eggs.
3. Ovo-lacto vegetarianism (or lacto-ovo vegetarianism) includes animal/dairy products such as eggs, milk, and honey.
4. Veganism excludes all animal flesh and products, such as milk, honey, and eggs, as well as items refined or manufactured through any such product, such as bone-char refined white sugar or animal-tested baking soda.
5. Raw veganism includes only fresh and uncooked fruit, nuts, seeds, and vegetables. Vegetables can only be cooked up to a certain temperature.
6. Fruitarianism permits only fruit, nuts, seeds, and other plant matter that can be gathered without harming the plant.
7. Sattvic diet (also known as yogic diet), a plant based diet which may also include dairy (not eggs) and honey, but excludes anything from the onion or leek family, red lentils, durian fruit, mushrooms, blue cheeses, fermented foods or sauces, alcoholic drinks and often also excludes coffee, black or green tea, chocolate, nutmeg or any other type of stimulant such as excess sharp spices.
8. Buddhist vegetarianism. Different Buddhist traditions have differing teachings on diet, which may also vary for ordained monks and nuns compared to others. Many interpret the precept 'not to kill' to require abstinence from meat, but not all. In Taiwan, su vegetarianism excludes not only all animal products but also vegetables in the allium family (which have the characteristic aroma of onion and garlic): onion, garlic, scallions, leeks, chives, or shallots.
9. Jain vegetarianism includes dairy but excludes eggs and honey, as well as root vegetables.
10. Macrobiotic diets consist mostly of whole grains and beans.
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Also, a lot of vegans that I know are just plain assholes.
It CAN be a smokescreen sometimes for an eating disorder, there's TONS of material about that. It reached the stage where the mere mention of the word 'vegan' made one look for the evidence of perfectionist parents, absent fathers and domineering mothers who did a lot of cooking. Unfortunately, the evidence was always there! The 'Jairus' Daughter' syndrome even!
When Starfleet eventually can manufacture the food synthesizer that provides Captain Kirk's chicken sandwiches, then they'll have a quandary: food that is totally carnivorous, but not involving the death of any animal. They may well get round that one by eschewing it as 'processsed'. Actually good genetically engineered meat is already a reality, and that'll make a silent revolution for protein provision in starvation areas.
Funnily enough, the Buddha's last meal was allegedly boiled pork. The insistence on vegetarian diets for his devotees at high consciousness is ... as ever, something later imposed.
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Sep 23, 2014 - 7:42 AM
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mstrox
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Also, a lot of vegans that I know are just plain assholes.
It CAN be a smokescreen sometimes for an eating disorder, there's TONS of material about that. It reached the stage where the mere mention of the word 'vegan' made one look for the evidence of perfectionist parents, absent fathers and domineering mothers who did a lot of cooking. Unfortunately, the evidence was always there!
I think it's a bit reductive to boil most or every eating disorder down to mommy and daddy issues - It leaves out completely the major role of society and media in body image issues; it ignores the role that concurrently diagnosed mental health issues (anxiety disorders, affective disorders, personality disorders, obsessive/compulsive disorders) can play.
At any rate, I think that argument is probably more coincidental than it seems - I'd wager the percentage of human adults who would say they fall within the large umbrella of [perfectionist parents, absent fathers, and/or domineering mothers] would be fairly high. Personally, in spite of all my issues, I'm happy to say that parentage and family aren't one of them - so you can plot me as an outlier on your chart of people with eating disorders 
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Sep 23, 2014 - 10:01 AM
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Rollin Hand
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Not the first time that (Member) has advertised TVS in posts recently...might be, dare I suggest, self-serving advertisement? Also, OP, do you believe the first paragraph to be the cause of the second? And do you understand the reasons for the details of the second paragraph happening?
Don't worry, I don't belong to the Vegan Society.
It's very difficult to convert to a total plant diet in a city.
It's a new paradigm, far away from the industrial and marketing world.
I am studying the matter of alternate diet in relation to our biology and economy.
I am trying to find a way to avoid restaurants (expensive, unhealthy) so it's a good solution to eat plants (vegetables and fruits) at home. With plants, I integrate eggs and honey as a surrogate sugar.
I am studying the variety of (mineral, spring) water provided in the commerce and the composition of tap water.
I am studying now each category of food and the integrity of the soil.
It's a very economical topic.
The industrial food is rather toxic and, above all, "acid".
And we need an amount of "alkaline" food to balance the "acid" leaning of the food.
¶ Alkaline diet
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alkaline_diet
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