On Aug 26, 1:46 pm, Jerry <story.je...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Aug 26, 7:23 am, Laurie <n...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> > Engineer/nutritional researcher seeks other raw food vegans to build a
> > real raw food community on the Big Island, HI.
> 1. Do people need a raw food community in order to eat 100% raw vegan?
A raw food community could have easements filled with large fruit
bearing trees, fruiting hedges and vines underneath instead of
association fees paying for genetically engineered grass and window
dressing maintenance as they do in the new developments in Florida. In
such a community I wouldn't have to buy 3-4 of some species of fruit
trees with the hope of obtaining both ***es for pollination. Community
ponds could have edible aquatic plants like lotus root, pond apple,
etc. I wouldn't need a mature crosser for my expensive Phoenix
dactiflora date palm, seeds & cuttings could be obtained from the
easements to transplant in yards, etc. Neighbors could trade fruit and
less would be wasted. There are a couple small organic veg communities
I read about in New York and somewhere in Europe.
> Is it not sufficient to have access to all the raw vegan foods even
> alongside nonraw nonvegan foods?
There are thousands of species of edible fruit/plants unavailable in
commercial grocery stores. Such a community could provide a practical
way to increase access to seasonal fruit with short shelf life, bruise
easily and just fruit that doesn't come wrapped in purple plastic with
cartoon clowns on it to be marketed and available. A virtually disease-
free community of natural eaters could be a good population for
research interests too.
> 2. Suppose you build a raw food community. Then suppose someone in the
> raw food community decides to switch from raw food to cooked food.
> Will you kick this person out?
That person may not be able to contribute or gain as much from annual
fees in such a community. But home owner associations around Florida
already convene to form legions, which strive to provide plant-free-
environments and enforce rules that are as arbitrary as you can
imagine. In my community, after a dormant winter in which association
board members stew in states of seasonal affective disorder, the
castration anxieties are remobilized as trees resume growth in the
spring. A fat fine for a flowering vine is enough to restore neurotic
equilibrium and pay for a newsletter that gives us recipes of how to
bake the violations committee's favorite dishes. The committee
threatens to fine for not having a "conformed look." "It's in the
covenants." Which are quoted like The Bible! Hedges are not allowed in
front, leaves from one tree must not touch leaves from another tree,
etc.
Chris
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