A Raw Food Diet
Some people might find this post offensive, but what it is about I just found so disgusting and nasty that I couldn't leave it alone. I love to cook, but what these people do that I'm talking about just goes too far.
Today I think I saw the craziest thing I've ever seen, by far. I turned on the TV for a little background noise and there was this Wife Swap show on. One family was ultra clean and ultra urban, which I can understand completely. The other family was from somewhere in Iowa, were completely self-sufficient subsistence farmers, and ate only raw food. They did not cook their meat. That is what was hard to take. Their theory was that God put bacteria on earth, so it can't be bad for us if we don't cook our food. I'm not talking only about vegetables here. They were eating 4 MONTH OLD RAW BEEF. They called it high beef. I wonder if that is because how it made you feel. It had been refridgerated, but still...ICK!
They had to eat every five hours or they become anorexic. I'm sure that wasn't the word they were looking for. You don't become anorexic after not eating for a while. Anorexia is an eating disorder. I think they might have meant anemic, but still only after five hours of not eating? That seems a little unlikely.
I wanted to point out to them that people had been cooking their food since the existence of human memory. Biblical figures cooked their food. If we apply this reasoning to other things, like alcohol, you'd get something just as insane as the basis for a raw food diet. There is wine in the Bible, and God wanted in the Bible. If it's in the Bible, it can't be bad for you so drink as much as wine you want as often as you want! Bacteria is good for you so consume as much fetid, rotting old, meat as you want. It doesn't work like that. A biblical justification for the existence of bacteria doesn't mean you should eat only raw food.
Today I think I saw the craziest thing I've ever seen, by far. I turned on the TV for a little background noise and there was this Wife Swap show on. One family was ultra clean and ultra urban, which I can understand completely. The other family was from somewhere in Iowa, were completely self-sufficient subsistence farmers, and ate only raw food. They did not cook their meat. That is what was hard to take. Their theory was that God put bacteria on earth, so it can't be bad for us if we don't cook our food. I'm not talking only about vegetables here. They were eating 4 MONTH OLD RAW BEEF. They called it high beef. I wonder if that is because how it made you feel. It had been refridgerated, but still...ICK!
They had to eat every five hours or they become anorexic. I'm sure that wasn't the word they were looking for. You don't become anorexic after not eating for a while. Anorexia is an eating disorder. I think they might have meant anemic, but still only after five hours of not eating? That seems a little unlikely.
I wanted to point out to them that people had been cooking their food since the existence of human memory. Biblical figures cooked their food. If we apply this reasoning to other things, like alcohol, you'd get something just as insane as the basis for a raw food diet. There is wine in the Bible, and God wanted in the Bible. If it's in the Bible, it can't be bad for you so drink as much as wine you want as often as you want! Bacteria is good for you so consume as much fetid, rotting old, meat as you want. It doesn't work like that. A biblical justification for the existence of bacteria doesn't mean you should eat only raw food.
posted by Constanza at 10:16 PM
