tasch
Last Updated: 11 Mar 97
Date Written: Thu, 6 Mar 1997 09:54:52
i've been eating vegan for a year, and eating 100% [a]live foods (raw,
sprouted,fermented) for 2.3 months now. i know this hasn't been much of a
time but i think my [continuing] experience can still be relevant to share
and nourish. i'm a womin, 19, i'm planning to cannalize my energies into
studying all the multiple aspects of food in relation to the body, health,
society, politically, anthropologically, historically, ecologically and,in
extension, all the aspects of everyday life (housing, clothing...), i'm now
involved with groups that have ecological anarchist (anti-authoritarian,
not bombthrowers) tendencies, and the main reasons i've gotten on this list
are to learn more everyday stuff and theory knittings on health, life,
nutrition, the body, people, selfempowerment, collective sustenance and
foods.
to me, an [a]live foods diet has come to be[come] a magnificent and radical
tool, act and process of life propaganda, an ecological craft, a play
apology, a situationist foodism.
let's elaborate a bit...
life propaganda-
because we inhabit a social context of artificiality and numbness, a
democracy where everything and everyone are equal and equally valueless,
where no one can tell the difference between the living and the dead,
because the entirety of our food industry is built on violence, death,
profit and speed, because food and eating habits are a reflective and
revelatory microcosm of how life and individuality are perceived, a
livefoods diet, based on the simple principle that life creates life and
death delivers death, unfolds as a celebration of life; a life based on the
respect and nurturing of your body and environment where food is a process,
an exchange, a link to the totality; a life at your own pace, a life as a
continuing act of education where knowledge becomes intimate and festive
rather than utilitarian and pure; a life promoting questioning,
selfempowerment and selfsustenance since you are the one who grows your own
food; a life of practical transcendence since food becomes a daily act
entailing respect and creativity.
ecological craft-
the universe being a matrix of fibers where each being, each act, affects
everything else, coming to a livefoods diet directly entails the respect of
your intimate environment, your self, since you come to question your own,
and others', wellbeing inside a cannibalistic society and foodindustry
which feed themselves on the lifecravings of every individual by turning
them into profitable readymade easy-to-buy one-size-fits-all commodities
and fastfoods (sadfoods). A livefoods diet also brings forward a complete
respect and reempowering of the planetary ecosystem since it is mainly
based upon an organic, vegan, at home, do it yourself food culture which
demands water, sun, air, good vibes (and magic...), which is low-scale and
simple and which does not demand any butchering, processing, packaging,
complex storage or transportation.* Because of that, a livefoods diet
becomes an ecological craft where the self and the totality of the
ecosystem are maintained into a nourishing dependency.
*nowadays, in a livefoods diet, it is mainly sproutings, local wild plants,
fruits, veggies and homemade nutmilks, nutcheeses, nutyoghurts as well as
essene 'bread'types which are a complete do-it-yourself food culture
(cultivation) since there still are numerous fruits, veggies, nuts and
grains which have to be shipped from abroad, but if people (myself
included) get their act together and integrate permaculture, biodynamics,
bioregionalism, urban farming and compost/solar heat teknowledgies (as well
as all the other stuff i forgot about and don't know about) it is
completely possible to have all our foods without any processing,
packaging, and any complex or unecological storage and transportation.
play apology-
i think we can learn a lot from children, their spontaneity, their
playfulness while learning and being, their ongoing curiosity, (i'm a child
admireror) and i think that a livefoods diet necessarly involves
playfulness and creativity for the individuals who practice it since they
are obliged (because of what they know) to put into question and reject all
the generations of foodcooking/foodprocessing traditions and, consequently,
are forced to go look into hidden histories of livefoods traditions, inside
themselves, to be creative and convert some actual foodforms into [a]live
food forms, as well as integrate the livefoods rythms and needs into this
actual historical context, this actual time. A livefoods diet is playful
since it questions (and acts on) how our society has become so
alienated/alienating, fix and rigid inside its false diversity of plastic
and sad foods, it is playful since it questions something intimate and
usually taken for granted, hidden in tradition, it necessitates a personal
involvment and creativity in its making, it treats fantasy as a direct
guide to action!
situationist foodism-
As Hakim Bey says, "food belongs to the realm of everyday life, the primary
arena for all insurectionary self-empowerment, all spiritual
self-enhancement, all seizing back of pleasure, all revolt against the
Planetary Work Machine and its imitation desires", and thus a livefoods
diet seems to carry an even more radical potential since it also questions
food forms and processes in their entirety, and this rebellion of everyday
life becomes a daily rebellion against a state of living death (and
deadfood) routinely called real life (and real food), and, the shock of the
familiar suddenly seen, it radicalizes and spiritualizes the familiar and
the everyday.
o.k, that's it for the bit of elaboration, tell me what are your own
motivations and perceptions of what a livefoods diet entails!
now, i also have 2 questions:
- -i'd like to know more about all the different food combination beliefs in
depth or overview, as well as reading references and publishers' addresses
if possible. (Tom Billings sent a great post, and that's what spiked my
curiosity, thanks), i personally try to respect, as much as i can, with it
still being fun, acid/alkaline as well as some hygienist food combinings
- -i'd like to know more about different perspectives/opinions on eating
veggies that grow in the ground, under the soil (carrots, potatoes, black
raddishes, turnips,etc.) raw, i do it, i usually grate them and rinse them,
and, after reading something on amidon and your body not being able to
convert it, if forget what was said exactly, i'd like to know more about
it.
thanks in advance
.tasch
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