Calculating What % Raw (WAS: OT: promoting meat....was Vores)

[Guest guest]

Nice one, Janet! Joe, I would love to know how you calculate that 15%

number, if you would be willing to elaborate. In my experience, most people

who claim to be X% raw are, at best, no more than half that amount, once

they learn how to do the calculations. For example, people who claim to be

eating 80% raw are actually eating 25-40% raw in most cases.

 

Best,

Elchanan

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rawfood [rawfood ] On Behalf Of

Janet FitzGerald

Wednesday, September 19, 2007 3:29 PM

rawfood

[Raw Food] OT: promoting meat....was Re: Vores

 

 

Oh Joe,

 

There you are using that f word again. And, it seems you are labeling

yourself a meat-eating promoter. You don't need me to do that. I think

you're doing a fine job. ;-)

 

You said, Joe: This all started from a stance of saying that if you wish to

consume meat very occasionally, it should be fine for you and don't worry

especially if you eat lots of raw! Thats all. Enjoy some life, don't be so

hard on yourself and others and all that sort of jazz.

 

Janet says: This paragraph you wrote IS promoting meat. Please define,

" very occasionally " and " lots of raw. " And later you said that eating a diet

which consists of 15% meat is OK. Hmmmm. That is actually a great deal of

meat in the diet that will promote dis-ease. (See " The China Study " ).

Also, if meat the size of a cow's hoof were presented for a meal, it would

take a HUGE amount of fruits and leafy greens to bring that fleshy meal down

to 15% of total calories. Since cooked flesh is dense and the water is

cooked out of it, the body has to pull water from the tissues to move it

through the digestive tract. Meat is enervating and acidifying to the body.

It will slow the body down.

 

I don't think anyone would argue that eating less meat is better than eating

more. But, why promote eating LESS meat when NO meat is better?

 

My husband became a vegan after reading " The China Study " . I know of five

people who became vegans after seeing the movie, " Fast Food Nation " . If we

meet our meat and confront the suffering that precedes the slaughter of

these animals, then there is hope that people would pass the red flesh aisle

at the grocery store.

 

Janet