Living in warm climates only? - is there any society 100% vegan?

[Guest guest]

.... Has anyone been and eaten in the Jungle in Africa?...

 

Thank you Nancy!

 

I am glad, I am not the only one! But my experiences were more South Africa,

Mocambique

(this could be Paradise if the county would have not been plundered), Botswana,

Zimbabwe

etc.

That brings me back to the theory which some raw food leaders explain, that

humantiy

were meant to live in warm climates only and eat only fruits, some veggies and

some nuts

and seeds. Well, the areas of such " paradises " are very limited. Why? I guess

that is another

possible theme to discuss. But back to the ancient times in Africa (and still

today), there

are only very few areas were humanity could live in such " perfect "

circumstances. In history

men wandered where ever food was available, as wild animals do. When everything

was

eaten around them and nothing was available anymore, men moved on or hunted as a

last

option.

 

My point is: There is no society on this globe who is 100% vegan or frutarians

with little bit

of veggies and nuts and seeds only.

Eating raw in general is logically the most natural way, no doubt.

 

What makes me wonder though is that the oldest societies known are actually not

in

warm climates, even not the ones who are surrounded from so called paradise

circumstances.

 

The longest living societies known are the folks in Hunza Valleys and people in

some areas

in the Swiss Alps (before the yoghurt was pasteurized! ))

All of them are not known of being 100% vegan or frutarians with some veggies

and nuts.

Their climates are certainly not really warm, at least not in winter times.

What makes them live so long?

 

Why I am asking is simply, because of all these discussion, you have to be 100%

this or

100% that or you are wrong! Based on my travels, my experiences and creating and

preparing foods with natural ingredients for over 25 years, mainly raw, but also

vegan,

vegetarian and some meats, my doubts are that always 100% vegan is the right way

to

live?!

 

By the way I lived for four years on an organic farm in Germany, with cows,

pigs,

chickens, geese, ducks, rabbits, cats and dogs, farmland, forests and wildlife.

I enjoyed

every day!

 

My point is, there is no 100% of this or that. Humans are unique. Everybody is

different!

Every society is different! Could there be simply a way to try to live as

natural as possible?

Which automatically protects humans, animals and nature! About health we would

discuss

mainly how to recover from an accident or so, but not all these modern diseases;

or silly

enough, discussing all the problems people get because of following some 100%

ideology

directions and fall from rain into the gutter. I only try to see the " big

picture " .

 

Chef Ursula from Good Mood Food Cafe

www.goodmoodfood.com

 

 

 

 

 

> My point here is that they were definitely not living on raw foods only. Of

my list above

I am thinking that tomatoes and pineapples and bananas would have been the only

raw

things. The corn was definitely not tender and sweet like the corn on the cob

we eat over

here. I am pretty sure that I got a blister on my hand trying to cut it off the

cob so we

could make a stew out of it and the other veggies. I don't recall seeing greens

of any kind

available to us. Maybe the had them and weren't trading, but we usually scoured

the

whole market areas to make sure we found everything we could.

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> Obviously I was not doing raw on that trip. I have sometimes wondered how I

would

have fared if I had been. I don't think it would have worked out very well with

my traveling

companions because there didn't seem to be a whole lot available. We generally

bought

all we could at each village and that would be like 2 pineapples and 25 bananas

and a few

handfuls of tomatoes for a group of 20.

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