Raw food reality.I am disappointed by the content of the article about raw food and its wild claims about being the most environmental diet you can choose ("Que Se-Raw, Se-Raw, Eating Right, July/August 2004). Unless they live in Florida, Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, or Hawaii, most raw foodists get the bulk of their diet from the tropics tropics, also called tropical zone or torrid zone, all the land and water of the earth situated between the Tropic of Cancer at lat. 23 1-2°N and the Tropic of Capricorn at lat. 23 1-2°S. , which has serious environmental costs in transportation. Many famous raw foodists don't have any qualms about eating lots of foods that are grown on the other side of our planet (one famous raw foodist calls himself the Durian durian, the highly esteemed, edible fruit of Durio zibethinus. The edible portions are the seeds found inside the large spiny fruits, which may weigh several pounds. King, though he lives in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of and durians are grown in Malaysia). Further, the fancy, raw food meals are prepared with a lot of electrical equipment, like dehydrators, juicers, blenders and food processors. Personally, I have been a strict raw foodist for more than five years, but recently I have become a little less strict, since I am living in an ecovillage in Northeastern Missouri where there is much more focus on eating locally. I still eat mostly raw, but there is no doubt in my mind that it is much more sustainable to eat a vegan diet vegan diet (vē´g  n),n the strictest form of vegetarian diet, which prohibits the consumption of all animal products, including of mostly fruits and vegetables, including some steamed foods like locally grown yams and potatoes, than to get the bulk of your food from thousands of miles away. Arjen Hoekstra, Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage Rutledge, MO |
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