In regards to eating meat

[Monica]

Interestingly, one of the raw vegan gurus recently ran an article in which he totally blasted the enzyme philosophy.

Interesting. Do you have a link?

Sure, with the disclaimer that I don't agree with everything this guy says. He's got a lot of great info, but is what I'd consider a 'purist' and is very, very rigid and dogmatic in his opinions. Same with his wife. They claim to be open-minded but are quick to condemn a lot of things before they've done their due diligence. (As you can quickly see in this example.)

I was actually impressed when they recently stated that parents aren't committing an unforgiveable sin if they feed their young children a bit of cooked vegan food!

I actually quit reading their newsletter for awhile because I got tired of being told that so many foods were 'bad'. Can't have onions. Can't have garlic. Can't have spices. Bleh! There seemed to be more emphasis on what not to do, instead of what to do.

In all fairness, they seem to have now loosened up their stance considerably, so I've resumed reading their blogs. Ironically, in this particular blog they are the ones on the defensive from their purist fanbase!

I don't want to over-analyze them, but just want to make the point that there are many raw vegan 'gurus' out there, so please don't judge the whole movement based on just this one.

http://www.fredericpatenaude.com/blog/?p=2036