Ahimsa - Not Fit For Life
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RawPracticalist
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Date: October 19, 2016 12:29PM Ahimsa is refraining from causing pain to any living creature
Yet is here is another extension of Ahimsa from Marilyn Diamond the author of Fit For Life. [www.30bananasaday.com] It is a very disturbing statement. Re: Ahimsa - Not Fit For Life
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Tai
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Date: October 19, 2016 02:24PM Both Marilyn and her ex husband have been eating meat for years.
It's sad that some slow readers still actually revere their Fit For Life book and actually still follow their advice in the book and not realize that even the authors don't follow their own advice anymore. Re: Ahimsa - Not Fit For Life
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Horsea
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Date: October 20, 2016 03:21AM Science has shown that even plants experience pain, so where do you draw the line? If you inhale air, you kill living forms of bacteria, so then, you must stop breathing to practice what you preach of ahimsa.
Right. There's no difference, is there, between killing a plant and killing an animal. This is what passes for deep spiritual commentary these days? Re: Ahimsa - Not Fit For Life
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RawPracticalist
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Date: October 20, 2016 05:38AM >It's sad that some slow readers still actually revere their Fit For Life book and actually still follow their advice in the book and not realize that even the authors don't follow their own advice anymore.
When I started with raw and living foods, Fit For Life was one of the first book I read. It has been a long time and I may not remember all of the content but some of the ideas outlined in the book are still true today even if the authors do not follow them. They were just common sense truths. One was that fruits will digest in about 30 minutes while a meal of bread and meat will take more than 8 hours. Another was that 70 percent of the food intake should be fruits and vegetables, and fruits should not be mixed with other foods.... The book had a good chapter on proper food combining... > There's no difference, is there, between killing a plant and killing an animal. Of course there is a huge difference between killing a plant and killing an animal. Everything in the universe has some degree of awareness but we are dealing here with degree, level of consciousness, from simple reflex to more profound level of self consciousness. Because we have to consume life to live, we search for our food in the kingdom that is below our own human or animal kingdom. And the plant themselves find their own food in the mineral kingdom, a kingdom below the vegetable kingdom and so on... It is called in political circles "compassionate conservatism". An economically this makes sense. In eating animals, you are eating more plants that you would have if you were eating plants directly. It takes many pounds of plants for an animal to produce one pound of flesh. So you let the animal eat a lot plants first before you can eat one pound of the animal. Waste of energy and compassion. Just eat the plant and make the animal your friend. You will be both happy. And plants take less time to regrow themselves, to be "born again", while animals and humans take longer time. Energy and effort in the universe should not be wasted for unnecessary pursuits. Edited 6 time(s). Last edit at 10/20/2016 05:51AM by RawPracticalist. Re: Ahimsa - Not Fit For Life
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Tai
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Date: October 21, 2016 02:06AM I quickly peeked into their book, Fit For Life II, published sometime in the 80s, and I saw that they had fish and chicken recipes.
I never was a follower of them, but I had their book laying around. Did they even promote a vegetarian diet in the first book? Re: Ahimsa - Not Fit For Life
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RawPracticalist
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Date: October 21, 2016 12:12PM I have not read Fit For Life II but I did read many comments about it especially complaints from vegetarians on the chicken and fish recipes.
In the first publication of the book a good demonstration they made about fruits as our natural food. If I remember it was that: if you leave an apple and a rabbit in a room with a child, the child will eat the apple and play with the rabbit, he will not try to kill and eat the rabbit. I guess in the second book they went on killing the rabbit for a meat recipe. Re: Ahimsa - Not Fit For Life
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Mislu
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Date: May 30, 2017 03:05AM What damage do they think will be done if you exclude animal foods? I have heard some people say that, but no facts, no figures, no examples. Sorry, only registered users may post in this forum.
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