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Re: Interview With an Ex-Vegan: Kaleigh Mason

RawZi — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 11:05:57 -0000

I was vegan even longer than you. I'm certainly not now, although in person people (vegan people too but not raw meat eaters) ask if I'm vegan (with actual thought that I am), when I'm now wearing an obviously wool coat and have told them what and how I eat! People practicing (all or mostly cooked) omnivore diets too, after I tell them I eat raw meat, continue to say about me that I'm vegan. That's another story, that makes little sense to me. Anyhow, I wish I learned more about meat and eggs earlier, learned what I know now. Meat is health food, real health food. Animal foods (meat etc) are sanity for living people. All processed foods, be they plant or animal are inferior, with the exception of vegetable juice as medicine/transition food. Yes, juicing is a process. I'm happy for you, Kaleigh, finding what works for the rest of your life.

Re: Fatisfied...SOOOO fatisfied.

RawZi — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:59:08 -0000

I don't like to keep waste. I like to find use for what I can use. When I started eating (raw) eggs, the whites of them were too displeasing to my senses. I gave the clear parts to my neighbors. That's ten whites every day, it's a little inconvenient. I do eat them now, but it's good to have found very good other use for them, especially since chemicals can build residues in the scalp and on the hair.

Everything you put on your skin make penetrate. Using shampoo might be described as feeding your shampoo to your bloodstream, not to mention the rivers it may get into with fish. Eggs are laid by rivers in nature. Shampoo doesn't pop up in nature by itself.

Re: Fatisfied...SOOOO fatisfied.

RawZi — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:15:56 -0000

Thank you Anthony. I'll take a look at those enzymes, and see if he likes them.

Last year we were traveling, and it was a special occasion. No one ever "catches" me with raw dairy, but my husband wanted to make extra sure everything went smoothly; because of the specialness of the reason for travel. He tried his best, but with stuff I don't need. I need my food.

Anyway, supposedly they had meat for me that was raw grassfed, but I could tell it was not, so I didn't taste a bite. We got butter there though, not cultured, but from experience I know that doesn't matter for me. It was definitely grassfed though. I pretty sure it was A1, but I don't think that bothers my body for the dairy. There are plenty of times I had A1 dairy, never had any health problem as far as that.

Anyway, I don't eat much, I was mostly eating butter. So, I ate the butter. I got swollen hard lymph nodes after. They were tender too, and took a couple of months to go back away. I did not get them tested, but they were ugly, uncomfortable and scary. I will not allow myself in that position again. No pasteurized butter for me. Sure, maybe it wasn't the butter, but it really seems it was. I don't see anything else that happened that could have possibly triggered that.

Re: Fatisfied...SOOOO fatisfied.

RawZi — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 18:53:57 -0000

You're welcome Anthony :)

The enzymes that you take, do they include phosphatase? Do greens? I really have no idea.

At least none of the above is pasteurized milk. Out of dairy products, you're right, usually butter is the best tolerated health-wise in my experience too from any dairy that's been heated or not. Unfortunately for me, I can't tolerate grass grazed pasteurized butter either.

I have my husband on WholezymeTM from WFM, or other vegan enzymes from other companies. I think it does help with a lot of things. Which enzymes have you found that work the best? The ones we choose are for vegan ethics, but I'm wondering if he'll accept one if it works better.

I don't know from my experience, I never liked taking anything factory processed for more than a few months, even an enzyme. I think I tried Rainbow Light many years ago. I don't remember it doing anything one way or the other. I guess I didn't need it back then.

Re: Fatisfied...SOOOO fatisfied.

RawZi — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:28:53 -0000

"I've been throwing out the whites and just using the yolks since the whites have avidin"

Akim4, the whites make an excellent chemical free raw hair wash. Remember, don't warm the water, or it will cook in and not wash.

Re: Fatisfied...SOOOO fatisfied.

RawZi — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:26:39 -0000

"not raw, but with animal fats it seems to be
more wiggle room.

I'm not focused so much on the enzymes, more on the grass minerals and
animal fat for my brain and joints."

Anthony,

When dairy is pasteurized, they then test it for phosphatase. It's an enzyme. It's not finished pasteurizing if there's any phosphatase left. Without phosphatase, the human body will not use the calcium (mineral) in the dairy product in a useful manner.

If you are eating (raw) cheese, since it is so dense, I don't know if you know that you are probably not getting good minerals out of that either. Adding unheated honey to (raw) cheese makes it's minerals usable to the human body.

Re: Fatisfied...SOOOO fatisfied.

RawZi — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:18:15 -0000

:) You're welcome!

Yes, nature is not 100% Vegan, no matter where you turn. But then honey can't be either.

Cambodia, *sigh* so many places I haven't been. Haven't been anywhere in Asia.

I was just invited to South East Asia again, this by a big family that will be happy to share raw animal foods with me. It was just SAD'ers and vegans before, although I'm sure I could eat basically what I need anywhere. It just feels nicer to when you can eat the same things together with people who have first hand experience with your best diet. Maybe I'll decide to go sometime, don't know. I'm sure it would be great.

Re: Fatisfied...SOOOO fatisfied.

RawZi — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 14:48:51 -0000

Maybe I'll try a smoothie with the NZ org raw vanilla pwdr & cinnamon. Which cinnamon do you recommend? I know some are just cassia bark, & that cinnamon is supposed to lower blood sugar. My son has drank raw milk vanilla smoothies but prefers fruit over vanilla. I like fresh mint leaves, fruit or ground coriander seed, or just plain most of the time. I might like stevia leaf with the mint, I haven't tried it that way, Idk. With just milk or butter or fruit I don't think I'd like stevia. Have you tried grubcomb? (honey comb with the grubs still in)

Yes, they have access to info. Unfortunately for many of them, they still ignore it. Of course also they have insurance & like you said, $$, they wouldn't even know what it is to live really broke & have to be self reliant & actually use their mind to do wonderful things with faith in nature.

Money has never been something I was very attracted to. I like sharing & how most people change after a while in a good environment. If you run across any laws or related stuff against bartering, shoot me a line about it please.

Re: Fatisfied...SOOOO fatisfied.

RawZi — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:04:29 -0000

You don't pay tax on raw dairy anyway. Is bartering illegal? I don't know. Do you mean just illegal for dairy? I don't know that either. I spent most of my life bartering, if I needed anything. Money just feels so fake.

You might be surprised to at how many people in big gov have cow shares.

Enjoy your butter smoothies!

Re: Fatisfied...SOOOO fatisfied.

RawZi — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 01:27:26 -0000

Thank you.

As you know, it's not always easy to get raw butter and cream, the laws are stricter than milk. It's even harder to find if someone restricts themselves to standards of getting to know and have personal friendly relationship with each milk animal first. Said son does this.

We are so fortunate this week. We got four lbs on Friday and are getting one to two more tomorrow. We're not buying them. It's not even a "cow share program". No one sells raw butter in the area, only milk as this is what local law permits. We were lucky to have other raw dairy they were interested in, so we bartered.

The freshly made for my family for this trade butter seems to be a nicer texture so far than any we've tried before. We're very grateful for the change. Some places you might get raw butter from take advantage and cut corners.

They are likely giving us some of their kefir grains tomorrow too.

Butter smoothies are great! I'm sure you must have read Karl Loren's blog when he tried primal, you can find it on his site. He wasn't finding raw milk, so one of the ingredients he used to replace milk in his banana smoothies was OP butter.

Re: Fatisfied...SOOOO fatisfied.

RawZi — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 23:18:59 -0000

Butter digests better than cream. Cream is useful for certain things, but requires many enzymes to digest it. Raw grass grazed butter does not. This is from things I've read and heard lectures on. But my son too, he is eating raw ethically obtained dairy. The butter he deals excellently with, never a problem at all. The cream he eats less often.

Re: Fatisfied...SOOOO fatisfied.

RawZi — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 23:11:24 -0000

I'm so happy you! My son was very sick. He was already vegan. He tried raw vegan. He tried raw fruitarian. He got too sick and couldn't handle any food. He's eating raw organic apples with local fresh made raw A2 butter now, like you Debbie. This food combination works fantastically for him. You can't buy raw butter where I live, but there are some small farms, and I trade for it.

Re: Walking away from Veganism...

RawZi — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 20:50:23 -0000

My son was mostly Vegan since the day he was born, except breast milk and a few occasional things up till ten-eleven years ago, then "pure" Vegan. Two weeks ago he started drinking homemade kefir, and feels so much better. He especially likes it blended with raspberries.

Re: Walking away from Veganism...

RawZi — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 20:43:52 -0000

Before I interned with Ann Wigmore, I didn't know "raw" existed, but I always ate some raw food. For at least a year I had been having only fresh coconut waters for breakfast, lunch and snacks, and then for dinner I'd make the family a meal of brown rice, beans, salad (no salt, oil or spices). I'd put out optional condiments of rock salt (in a grinder), (chopped) parsley, seaweed (flakes), sesame seeds (in a grinder), lemon (wedges) ... I ate the cooked food for dinner, sometimes forgoing the rice. I felt very healthy during that time, the best I had ever.

Labeling ourselves as raw is one thing, but restrictions can get old and it's good to change when it's needed.

Re: We Like It Raw Quickies - Anthony Anderson: Walking Away from Veganism

RawZi — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 11:32:51 -0000

I wish him well.

Re: We Like It Raw Quickies - Swine Flu Ancestor Born on U.S. Factory Farms

RawZi — Sat, 02 May 2009 23:24:04 -0000

We have a more mature form of evil than ever springing from this past century. That's what I see. I don't see any good in factory farming. I'm glad my family doesn't worry about this as far as our diets in that we eat diets that do not involve factory farm animal. Those pigs in the picture are cuties :) I'd like to see wild pigs in the streets :) They are beautiful. Incredible how humans as a race more and more synthesize a new reality, separate things more and more, etc. The time is coming that things will change.

Re: We Like It Raw Quickies - Acne Sucks

RawZi — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 17:15:00 -0000

I had skin that looked like some terrible disease (not having to translate remarks people made to me about it). I assume it was acne, as I didn't die from it, and I had been to a dermatologist who didn't give it another name. It took a lot to get my skin past it. Thank you for sharing the article.

Re: We Like It Raw Quickies - PETA funds a scientist developing meat from tissue culture

RawZi — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 07:46:56 -0000

So they grow this in calf blood?

Re: We Like It Raw Quickies - Worried about Antibiotics in Your Beef? Vegetables May Be No Better

RawZi — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 05:06:20 -0000

Thanks LOL I'm slowly learning these to navigate blogs. I hate antibiotics. I was administered lots of them as a small child. They may not have hurt me, but they didn't help, I could see that then too, very clearly. I almost feel like calling them my enemy. Good article. They need to stop all this artificial fertilizer. I wish the forces that push everything to the edge of obliteration would calm down. We need to reset the Earth's adrenals. Either that, or stop planting crops in the soil. Just sprout fruit seeds and other ways of eating for the non breatharians.

Re: We Like It Raw Quickies - Worried about Antibiotics in Your Beef? Vegetables May Be No Better

RawZi — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 02:53:17 -0000

Maybe that's why AW said don't use manure, use worm castings instead. I never saw her have anything to do with potatoes either. I think we'd solve a lot of this if we would just grow our own food on soil that we composted with stuff that the earthworms like to eat, at least when it comes to cereal grass and vegetables, vines and fruit trees. We could keep in mind to not polluting the oceans so the fish will be good too. Do you have a link to the study? I don't see it on her blog.

Re: We Like It Raw Quickies - Warning: Mammograms and CT scans expose patients to atomic bomb levels of radiation

RawZi — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 07:10:18 -0000

Don't remind me how much I hate these tests, the system that's so involved in them and the fact that so many people are so tied to them. I guess there's no sense in hating it, but I won't do anything else, except maybe post a blog entry. I am very glad I have always refused mammograms, and that through living food I have avoided biopsies, also that I eat raw foods that help repair radiation damage. I feel much appreciation to the greatest raw food teachers,

Re: We Like It Raw Quickies - In the process of pasteurizing, juice is heated...

RawZi — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 19:01:36 -0000

:) Thanks. Yeah, I remember years ago, they were lining those children's fruit-juice packs with nickel (other brands).

Re: We Like It Raw Quickies - In the process of pasteurizing, juice is heated...

RawZi — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 01:32:01 -0000

Grape and especially apple and orange juice never tasted like the fruit to me. Thank you for explaining. Yes, I think "not-from-concentrate" can be more unhealthy than concentrate, but better not to fool around with either. Thank goodness most of us in the raw food movement have juicers, if we even like juice. I'll have to look up Firmenich. What do they "protect" the flavor with? Nickel? lol

Re: We Like It Raw Quickies - Pesticides linked to Parkinsons

RawZi — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 01:47:15 -0000

The link doesn't work:
Pesticides linked to Parkinsons
As I read this story about a link between common garden pesticides and Parkinsons, I wondered why anyone would still use this crap, when organic gardening is ...
It would be nice if everyone could protect themselves by not coming in contact with insecticides; because everyone was totally benevolent and knew that insecticides are extremely dangerous.

Re: We Like It Raw Quickies - What a child is doing when he puts things in his...

RawZi — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 01:38:40 -0000

Interesting point. I'm not sure I know enough to agree with her. I have seen children like Brody's NYT January 26 article reads put dog droppings in their mouth and be hella strong like it's more likely building them than harming them, so that may also knock the germ theory out of the ballpark.