raw (in LA) featured on TV show, Taste of America

[Guest guest]

Host of Taste of America, Mark DeCarlo, (Travel Channel on cable/sat) visits

Taste of the Goddess on Melrose, then Juliano's. At Taste, he is joined by the

owners, as well as comedian Andy Dick, and some other raw foodists. He enjoys a

brazil nut shake (which he suspects was made at 7-11, since it tastes " like a

shake " ), but dismisses the raw pizza as tasting like " raw pizza " . Andy Dick is

weird and funny as you would expect. Then, Mark visits Juliano at his

restaurant, and Mark remarks that it looks like a Sizzler salad bar. The

interview goes well, he compliments Juliano on his wizardry, culminating in Mark

tasting a " tuna " wrap, which Mark admits, is tasty.

 

Hopefully you can download the show using bittorrent, or catch it on a rerun. If

you don't find it on any torrent site, let me know, maybe I could upload it, but

I don't have a DVD burner (or Tivo-to-go) yet so it might take me a week or so.

 

Anyways, so I Tivo'd it, and watched it after hearing noted vegan activist Dr.

Michael Gregor speak tonight. After arguing with Gregor (who presumably would

only let soy be pried out of his cold, dead fingers), then seeing the show, it

struck me how much more receptive many ppl on the SAD diet are to raw, than most

vegans. I had to remind Gregor that the mass cultivation of soybeans with

harvesters kills many millions of small field mammals, and therefore, could

hardly be called " vegan " food. He quibbled over the numbers saying they had been

fudged, and that the animals would " run away " . His " top 12 cancer fighting

superfoods " contained only a couple of the foods raw foodists would tap (i.e.

" berries and greens " - does that include maraschino cherries and iceberg

lettuce??), but includes such discredited ones as oats and B-12 fortified

nutritional yeast (so they fortify it with B-12 after they destroy all the B-12

in it by heating it? Too bad about all the ureic acid in yeast,

regardless... that's a main ingredient in urine, which reminds me of a really

bad sci-fi movie, where they kill the evil beast by feeding it its own waste

products). Ironic that the ugliest beast of all may be the one we can't even

see: groupthink. JP

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

Sure, cooked food eaters take an interest in the raw diet, they can

afford to, there's little chance they're going to take it seriously.

But for a vegan, he may feel a need to take the raw diet seriously,

so he'd rather not think about it.

 

Maraschino cherries aren't raw for me but iceburg lettuce is.

 

Groupthink - the act or practice of reasoning or decision-making by a

group, especially when characterized by uncritical acceptance or

conformity to prevailing points of view. I'm groupthinking all the

time, eat your produce. It's not an ugly beast at all, conformity of

belief makes for the happiest of situations for the individual, just

ask God.

 

Rich

 

rawfood , Jos Bagdonas <jbagdonas@s...> wrote:

> Anyways, so I Tivo'd it, and watched it after hearing noted vegan

activist Dr. Michael Gregor speak tonight. After arguing with Gregor

(who presumably would only let soy be pried out of his cold, dead

fingers), then seeing the show, it struck me how much more receptive

many ppl on the SAD diet are to raw, than most vegans. I had to

remind Gregor that the mass cultivation of soybeans with harvesters

kills many millions of small field mammals, and therefore, could

hardly be called " vegan " food. He quibbled over the numbers saying

they had been fudged, and that the animals would " run away " . His " top

12 cancer fighting superfoods " contained only a couple of the foods

raw foodists would tap (i.e. " berries and greens " - does that include

maraschino cherries and iceberg lettuce??), but includes such

discredited ones as oats and B-12 fortified nutritional yeast (so

they fortify it with B-12 after they destroy all the B-12 in it by

heating it? Too bad about all the ureic acid in yeast,

> regardless... that's a main ingredient in urine, which reminds me

of a really bad sci-fi movie, where they kill the evil beast by

feeding it its own waste products). Ironic that the ugliest beast of

all may be the one we can't even see: groupthink. JP

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