I didn't mean to cause offence Empress, sorry about that.
I just mean that I know ones who eat meat, yet are very much alive like I and I, despite the fact that they eat death. I wasn't drawing a comparison between flesh eating and eating of cooked food. I was more just making the point that it is not what goes in that matters as much as what comes out. I personally do not make a deal over what one choose to eat or how one prepares the food they eat...once it is not unclean food, because Jah instructions are very clear.
I know what the I means though, in regards to cooking food. It is cultural, and cooking is almost part of the process of eating itself, one prepares then eats. I mean even a raw food diet involves preparation.
As for the vegetable being dead once it is pulled out..well it isn't dead yet. Just like a plant cutting, it remains alive once it is cut, but unless you put it in water it will die eventually. Same goes for a vegetable, it will die eventually, as we all know vegetables go off, when they go off, they are dead. So they start the process of dying when they are pulled out teh ground, but they are not dead, they are still alive.
In the beginning, we read in genesis, we only ate of the fruit and vegetables and herbs, there was no cooking necessary. Raw food livity is from the beginning, not created in california, they may have started a trend out of it or something i guess.
I wouldn't say that eating raw is bad for the body though...I do not know from isperience, but I do know from hearing the ispereinces of others. And it is supposed to be a real ites when eating from the earth, the way it came from the earth, with all the nutrients as they were initially. It is also detoxing.
Anyway, It doesn't bother I what one chooses to eat, we gotta focus on more important things, each one to their own....once it is not going against Jah commands (unclean foods).
This is from an interview with Mutabaruka on vegetariansim:
BV: Did you see any subtle differences between eating a vegetarian cooked diet and eating raw, in terms of your consciousness?
M: Yeah, man! Definitely. The raw thing is a higher level. It's like you walking a line, but it's not a line really, because it make you so balanced. I don't know. Things start to feel more to you. It gets you more aware, more quicker. You don't sleep as much. You're not as sluggish. I remember when I used to be raw, I didn't want to sleep. It was like I was starting fresh. I didn't want to sleep, but you're supposed to sleep. I had to realize that there was nothing wrong with me. Sleeping is not a thing where you have to sleep
eight hours. You eat less. You definitely eat less when you eat raw food. Three meals a day is a crazy thing. It's a western thinking. Three meals a day is a man who is soon dead. And it's kind of ridiculous to eat three meals a day when people don't eat one meal. When you're a vegetarian and you start eating tofu and gluten, it's almost like you're eating meat. But it's not as sluggish. But the raw food thing—you eat less, you're not as hungry. You just eat when you feel like you want to eat. Sometime I eat because I afraid. I didn't really want to eat, but I didn't eat for a long time so I feel I should eat something. It keep you alert.
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