Raw veganism is a diet which combines veganism Veganism is a philosophy and lifestyle whose adherents seek to exclude the use of animals for food, clothing, or any other purpose. Vegans endeavor not to use or consume animal products of any kind. The most common reasons for becoming a vegan are human health, ethical commitment or moral conviction concerning animal rights or welfare, the and raw foodism Raw foodism is a lifestyle promoting the consumption of uncooked, unprocessed, and often organic foods as a large percentage of the diet. It excludes all food of animal origin, and all food cooked above 48 degrees Celsius (118 degrees Fahrenheit). A raw vegan diet includes raw vegetables and fruits, nuts and nut pastes, grain and legume sprouts, seeds, plant oils, sea vegetables, herbs, and fresh juices. There are many different versions of the diet, including fruitarianism Fruitarianism is the practice endorsed by people called fruitarians or fructarians of following a diet that comprises fruits, nuts and seeds, without animal products, vegetables and grains. Fruitarianism is a subset of veganism, juicearianism Raw foodism is a lifestyle promoting the consumption of uncooked, unprocessed, and often organic foods as a large percentage of the diet, and sproutarianism Raw foodism is a lifestyle promoting the consumption of uncooked, unprocessed, and often organic foods as a large percentage of the diet. Sometimes the definition of a raw vegan diet is loosened to include vegan diets with at least 75% raw foods.

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Motivations

In addition to the ethics of eating meat In many societies, controversy and debate have arisen over the ethics of eating animals. Ethical objections are generally divided into opposition to the act of killing in general, and opposition to certain agricultural practices surrounding the production of meat. Reasons for objecting to the practice of killing animals for consumption may include, dairy A dairy is a facility for the extraction and processing of animal milk—mostly from cows or goats, but also from buffalo, sheep, horses or camels —for human consumption. Typically it is a farm or section of a farm that is concerned with the production of milk, butter and cheese, eggs An egg is a spheroid or ovoid shaped cell laid by females of many different species, including birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fish. Eggs have been eaten by mankind for millennia. Bird eggs consist of a protective eggshell, albumen (egg white), and vitellus (egg yolk), contained within various thin membranes and honey Honey is a sweet food made by honey bees using nectar from flowers. The variety produced by honey bees (the genus Apis) is the one most commonly referred to and is the type of honey collected by beekeepers and consumed by humans. Honey produced by other bees and insects has distinctly different properties, a raw vegan may be motivated by:

Health reasons

Raw vegans believe that cooking foods destroys the complex balance of micronutrients Micronutrients are nutrients needed throughout life in small quantities. They are dietary minerals needed by the human body in very small quantities as opposed to macrominerals which are required in larger quantities. The Microminerals or trace elements include at least iron, cobalt, chromium, copper, iodine, manganese, selenium, zinc and. They also believe that, in the cooking process, dangerous chemicals are produced by the heat interaction with fat, protein, and carbohydrates.

Environmental reasons

Some raw vegans are concerned about deforestation Deforestation occurs for many reasons: trees or derived charcoal are used as, or sold, for fuel or as a commodity, while cleared land is used as pasture for livestock, plantations of commodities, and settlements. The removal of trees without sufficient reforestation has resulted in damage to habitat, biodiversity loss and aridity. It has adverse and sustainability Sustainability is the capacity to endure. In ecology the word describes how biological systems remain diverse and productive over time. For humans it is the potential for long-term maintenance of well being, which in turn depends on the well being of the natural world and the responsible use of natural resources, believing the use of wood or fossil fuels Fossil fuels are fuels formed by natural resources such as anaerobic decomposition of buried dead organisms. The age of the organisms and their resulting fossil fuels is typically millions of years, but exceeds 2 billion years. These fuels contain a high percentage of carbon and hydrocarbons for cooking is harmful to the environment.

Spiritual and/or philosophical reasons

Most dedicated followers of a raw vegan diet place importance on spiritual gain Spirituality can refer to an ultimate or immaterial reality; an inner path enabling a person to discover the essence of their being; or the “deepest values and meanings by which people live.” Spiritual practices, including meditation, prayer and contemplation, are intended to develop an individual's inner life; such practices often lead to an.[1] Ruthann Russo states, "The raw food movement looks at the way food, living, treatment of the earth, our treatment of each other, and our quest for physical, spiritual, and mental health all fit together."

Other considerations

Raw vegans must ensure that their intake of vitamin B12 Vitamin B12, vitamin B12 or vitamin B-12, also called cobalamin, is a water soluble vitamin with a key role in the normal functioning of the brain and nervous system, and for the formation of blood. It is one of the eight B vitamins. It is normally involved in the metabolism of every cell of the body, especially affecting DNA synthesis and is adequate, since it is produced by bacteria and does not occur reliably in plant foods.[2][3][4] Vitamin B12 deficiency can have serious consequences such as anemia and neurodegenerative disease Neurodegeneration is the umbrella term for the progressive loss of structure or function of neurons, including death of neurons. Many neurodegenerative diseases including Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, and Huntington’s occur as a result of neurodegenerative processes. As research progresses, many similarities appear which relate these diseases to.[5] The Vegan Society The Vegan Society is a registered charity in the United Kingdom that promotes veganism and Vegan Outreach Vegan Outreach is America's cutting-edge grassroots animal advocacy group working to expose and end cruelty to animals through the widespread distribution of printed informational booklets. As of March 2010, over eleven million hard copies of Vegan Outreach brochures have been handed out by the local members of Vegan Outreach around the world, among others, recommend that vegans either consistently eat foods fortified with B12 or take a B12 supplement.[6][7][8] Tempeh Tempeh, or tempe in Indonesian, is made by a natural culturing and controlled fermentation process that binds soybeans into a cake form. Tempeh is unique among major traditional soy-foods in that it is the only one that did not originate in China or Japan. It originated in today's Indonesia, and is especially popular on the island of Java, where, seaweed Seaweed is a loose, colloquial term encompassing macroscopic, multicellular, benthic marine algae. The term includes some members of the red, brown and green algae. Seaweeds can also be classified by use, spirulina Spirulina is a microscopic blue-green algae in the shape of a perfect spiral coil living both in sea and fresh water which is the common name for human and animal food supplements produced primarily from two species of cyanobacteria: Arthrospira platensis, and Arthrospira maxima. These and other Arthrospira species were once classified in the, organic Organic foods are made in a way that limits or excludes the use of synthetic materials during production. For the vast majority of human history, agriculture can be described as organic; only during the 20th century was a large supply of new synthetic chemicals introduced to the food supply. This more recent style of production is referred to as & produce, soil, and intestinal In human anatomy, the intestine is the segment of the alimentary canal extending from the stomach to the anus and, in humans and other mammals, consists of two segments, the small intestine and the large intestine. In humans, the small intestine is further subdivided into the duodenum, jejunum and ileum while the large intestine is subdivided into bacteria have not been shown to be reliable sources of B12 for the dietary needs of vegans.[9][10][11] Vitamin B12 can be found in Nutritional Yeast. Nutritional Yeast is a reliable source of B-complex vitamins and Cyanocobalamin (B12). Two tablespoons can provide 133% of a raw vegan's daily needs of B12[12]. Most soy milks are also fortified with at least 50% of a raw vegan's daily B12 intake.

References

  1. ^ Au naturel: the raw food revolution - raw food diet by Lori Tobias (Nov, 2002) Better Nutrition - BNET
  2. ^ "What every vegan should know about vitamin B12". Vegan Society The Vegan Society is a registered charity in the United Kingdom that promotes veganism. http://www.vegansociety.com/html/food/nutrition/b12/. Retrieved 2007-02-22. "Vitamin B12, whether in supplements, fortified foods, or animal products, comes from micro-organisms."
  3. ^ Jack Norris, RD (2003-04-18). "Staying a Healthy Vegan". Vegan Outreach Vegan Outreach is America's cutting-edge grassroots animal advocacy group working to expose and end cruelty to animals through the widespread distribution of printed informational booklets. As of March 2010, over eleven million hard copies of Vegan Outreach brochures have been handed out by the local members of Vegan Outreach around the world. http://www.veganoutreach.org/health/stayinghealthy.html#vitamind. Retrieved 2007-02-22. "There are no reliable, unfortified plant sources of vitamin B12; therefore fortified foods and/or supplements are necessary for the optimal health of vegans."
  4. ^ "Vitamin B12 Information Sheet". Vegetarian Society The Vegetarian Society is a British registered charity established on 30 September 1847 with the aim of promoting understanding and respect for vegetarian lifestyles. http://www.vegsoc.org/info/b12.html. Retrieved 2007-02-22. "any B12 present in plant foods is likely to be unavailable to humans and so these foods should not be relied upon as safe sources."
  5. ^ "Vitamin B12 (cobalamin)". Merck Manual Home Edition. http://www.merck.com/mmhe/sec12/ch154/ch154h.html. Retrieved 2006-10-30.
  6. ^ "Healthy choices on a vegan diet". Vegan Society The Vegan Society is a registered charity in the United Kingdom that promotes veganism. http://www.vegansociety.com/html/food/nutrition/. Retrieved 2007-02-14.
  7. ^ Reed Mangels, Ph.D., R.D.. "Vitamin B12 in the Vegan Diet". Vegetarian Resource Group. http://www.vrg.org/nutrition/b12.htm. Retrieved 2007-02-22.
  8. ^ "Don't Vegetarians Have Trouble Getting Enough Vitamin B12?". Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine is a animal rights group based in Washington, D.C., USA, founded in 1985 by physician Neal D. Barnard. It describes itself as an "association of doctors and laypersons" whose stated purposes are to promote preventive medicine and encourage higher standards for ethics and effectiveness in. http://www.pcrm.org/health/veginfo/b12.html. Retrieved 2007-02-22.
  9. ^ "What every vegan should know about vitamin B12". Vegan Society The Vegan Society is a registered charity in the United Kingdom that promotes veganism. http://www.vegansociety.com/html/food/nutrition/b12/. Retrieved 2007-02-22. "Vitamin B12, whether in supplements, fortified foods, or animal products, comes from micro-organisms."
  10. ^ Jack Norris, RD. "Vegan Health: B12 in Tempeh, Seaweeds, Organic Produce, and Other Plant Foods". veganhealth.org. Vegan Outreach Vegan Outreach is America's cutting-edge grassroots animal advocacy group working to expose and end cruelty to animals through the widespread distribution of printed informational booklets. As of March 2010, over eleven million hard copies of Vegan Outreach brochures have been handed out by the local members of Vegan Outreach around the world. http://www.veganhealth.org/b12/plant. Retrieved 2007-02-22.
  11. ^ Jack Norris, RD. "Vegan Health: Are Intestinal Bacteria a Reliable Source of B12?". veganhealth.org. Vegan Outreach Vegan Outreach is America's cutting-edge grassroots animal advocacy group working to expose and end cruelty to animals through the widespread distribution of printed informational booklets. As of March 2010, over eleven million hard copies of Vegan Outreach brochures have been handed out by the local members of Vegan Outreach around the world. http://www.veganhealth.org/b12/int. Retrieved 2007-02-22.
  12. ^ Nutritional Yeast Food Nutritional Facts http://www.bulkfoods.com/nutritional_yeast.htm Retrieved 2010-02-06

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Vegetarianism Vegetarianism is the practice of following a plant-based diet including fruits, vegetables, cereal grains, nuts, and seeds, with or without dairy products and eggs. A vegetarian does not eat meat, including red meat, game, poultry, fish, crustacea, and shellfish, and may also abstain from by-products of animal slaughter such as animal-derived Lacto-ovo-vegetarianism An ovo-lacto-vegetarian is a vegetarian who does not eat beef, lamb, pork, poultry, fish, shellfish or animal flesh of any kind, but is willing to consume dairy and egg products · Ovo-vegetarianism Ovo vegetarianism is a type of vegetarianism which allows for the consumption of eggs; unlike lacto-ovo vegetarianism, no dairy products are permitted. Those who practice ovo vegetarianism are called ovo-vegetarians or "eggetarians." "Ovo" comes from the Latin word for egg · Lacto-vegetarianism A lactovegetarian diet is a vegetarian diet which includes dairy products such as milk, cheese, yogurt, butter, cream, and kefir, but excludes eggs. The origin of "lacto" is the Latin word for milk [lac, lactis]. Cheeses which include animal rennet and yogurts which contain gelatin are also avoided. Lacto-vegetarianism as a concept and
Semi-vegetarianism Semi-vegetarianism is a term used to describe diets that are not vegetarian, but include less meat than typical diets. The term has no precise or widely accepted definition, but is generally defined as the avoidance of red meat and/or generally following a vegetarian diet, but eating meat occasionaly. The term is sometimes used interchangeably Flexitarianism Semi-vegetarianism is a term used to describe diets that are not vegetarian, but include less meat than typical diets. The term has no precise or widely accepted definition, but is generally defined as the avoidance of red meat and/or generally following a vegetarian diet, but eating meat occasionaly. The term is sometimes used interchangeably · Pescetarianism Pescetarianism, also called pesco-vegetarianism, is the practice of a diet that includes seafood and excludes other animals. In addition to fish or shellfish, a pescetarian diet typically includes some or all of vegetables, fruit, nuts, grains, beans, eggs and dairy. The Merriam-Webster dictionary dates the origin of the term "pescetarian& · Pollotarianism Pollotarianism is a semi-vegetarian diet in which a person only eats vegetables, fruits, and poultry meat (particularly chicken), but does not consume meat from fish or mammals. Pollotarians tend to include non-flesh animal products such as dairy and eggs in their diet, as well
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