From: yozzo@watson.ibm.com (Ralph Yozzo)
Newsgroups: sci.med.nutrition
Subject: Re: True Vegeterian - is it OK?
Date: 27 Jan 93 03:39:07 GMT
Organization: IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM

In article <1993Jan26.152503.15933@rtf.bt.co.uk> traub@rtf.bt.co.uk (Michael Traub) writes:
>In article <C1Eutx.1FH@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk> dam@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (David Morning) writes:
>>His rational goes....plants are sensitive to humans, they respond to being
>>spoken to and they react when damaged i.e. they hurt when fruit/grain etc is
>>picked. He is devoted to peace and therefore should not do anything that will
>>hurt another living thing including plants therefore he should eat nothing
>>that hasn't fallen naturally to the ground, just like (he thinks) the Red 
>>Indians. This eliminates virtually everything from his diet including rice
>>which is harvested.
>
>The  best  thing  to do is agree with him and get him to link up with other
>fruitarians.  While  fruitarianism  sounds like a crazy diet to most people
>there  are  people in the UK who have been successfully fruitarian for many
>years.  It  does  however  require  a  very  varied  diet  and  some  loose
>definition  of  what  is  and  what is not a "fruit". The founder of the UK
>fruitarian  group  has  only  just  retired  (he  is  in  his eighties). By
>getting  your  friend  active  in  the movement you may get him to be a bit
>more  active  generally.  He  may  realise  that  strict  adherence  to his
>current  diet  is  neither healthy nor necessary and he wll be getting this
>information from people who understand where he is at.
>
An alternative approach (which may snap your friend out of his 
troubles) (But, beware it may do more harm than good.) is
to explain to him that every time he walks in the grass, he may
be killing many small insects.  But does that mean that he will 
give up walking?

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>Another  thing  you can try is getting him to take up dairy products. While
>not  necessarily  the  most healthy thing to eat, they at least are full of
>fat  and  protein  which  is  probably  what  he  needs  at  present.  Many
>spiritual  vegetarians  argue  that  dairy  products  are the "fruit of the
>cow".  The  Jains  of  India  who  are  probably the largest cultural group
>approaching fruitarianism follow this belief.
>
>If all that fails buy him lots of avocados and bananas.
>
>
>-- 
>Michael Traub
>BT Customer Systems, Brighton Systems Centre. traub@btcs.bt.co.uk
>
>    JOE, taxi driver: Unemployment will rise and sooner or later the
>    masses will revolt against it. There'll be civil disorder and the
>    further breakdown of civil society. The end result I hope will be
>    the triumph of the people over capitalism. I also wouldn't mind
>    if a few more people used taxis this year - '92 was rotten.
>
>(Taken from "Hopes and Fears" in The Guardian, December 31st 1992, a
>section which looked at what people saw 1993 bringing)



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 Ralph Yozzo (yozzo@watson.ibm.com)  
 From the beautiful and historic New York State Mid-Hudson Valley.
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