Primal Diet Success Compared to Vegetarian

by Gay
(Canada)

Corin,
Thank-you for your site.
Please pass this note on to your visitors and please send a copy on to David Wolfe.

Quoting David Wolfe on this page,
“Eating raw animal flesh is better than cooked animal flesh for a time and people will feel better until the body begins to accumulate the unmitigated death energy (karma) of the animals, and then the trouble starts. I cringe when I receive e-mails from young people who are new to raw foods and have been convinced to eat raw animal flesh for strength and health. . . ."

DAVID - I love your books and bought two of them - and have come across your articles occasionally looking for Raw Veggie info. All very good. Much of your information is so incredibly well researched and helpful on the path to recovering one's health.

However,I find your gentle, public grieving for those who find animal products healthful to go too far.

What do the plants do with all the "Death Energy (karma)" that they accumulate from consuming not only other dead plant materials, but also dead animal materials from the soil. This Belief System of yours falls more than a little short of the normal Cycles of Life.

What do you say about all the extremely sick Vegetarians who go to Raw Paleo and Primal Diets? It is not only cooked meals and junk. Many of them have been Raw Vegans too.

Your Nutritional Knowledge on raw plant based foods is so totally wonderful. And I use it to improve the Raw Veggie, Fruit and Oils portion of my own Diet. . . and delightfully so.
But . . . I believe your Evangelical Diet Beliefs come across as harshly as Religious people who believe that anyone not practicing their Religion and Worshipping their God is going to Hell (Death Energy/Karma). - Perhaps some peaceful meditations on the place of humans in the Cycle of Life might be helpful. I found Aajonus' sections on the Human Digestive System compared to Vegetarian, Omnivorous and Carnivorous Animals to be very enlightening. Humans appear to fit in a much Broader Range of "Normal Diet and Digestion" than you have allowed for.

There have been studies that have discovered wonderfully Healthy Indigenous Human Populations who eat 90% Vegetarian Diets and some who eat 90% Meat Diets. I have never seen a study of Healthy Indigenous Humans who eat Vegan or 100% Carnivore. I will pray with much love for you to find a wide enough range of understanding and compassion for all normal, healthy, human Diets. In the meantime - I am going to go with what works!

1. I have been recovering from debilitating chronic health problems so much better on Primal Diet than on any other Natural or Western approach.

2. I tried Vegetarian Diet/Life for 5 years - but got worse. I probably should have been concerned when for the other 15 years (wanting very much to become vegetarian)I was not well enough to properly digest a Vegetarian Diet . . . let alone Vegan Diet. But the messages are conveyed so well and so inspiringly that it never occurred to me - that if I can't get well on Vegetarian - probably it is not necessarily the best diet for a Human Being - me or my spouse or children - whose digestion at that time was also compromised.

3. For Example: I also discovered that (according to Udo Erasmus) it takes at least 5 enzyme processes to change short chain Omega 3 in Flax Seeds to the long Omega 3 chains needed by our bodies - and it takes a long time for that to happen. Many of my enzyme processes were not functioning properly. No wonder all those years on Flax Seeds/Oils did nothing to improve my skin, brain etc. Going on Fish/Flax/Borage Combination and taking Cod Liver Oil made huge differences - and significantly reduced the severe Lone Atrial Fib Episodes that plagued me for 10 years. So Vegan or Vegetarian - Not so good David. I lost 20 years trying/wishing to become Vegetarian - what a loss of life. What is your Karma going to do with that?

4. When I started "Exploring Primal Diets", by chance, I started with the Raw Plant Kingdom. Then totally by chance, Raw Dairy. Then Raw Eggs. And again after much reading finally slowly introduced Raw Meats. The Raw Meats made the most difference. Was I ever surprised!!! Could have blown me over with a feather. I had not expected such a strong positive healing response to the meat - so much more that the other foods. My day takes a gentle wonderful lift when I eat my first meat meal of the day. And I feel more calm and gentle and focused and centered than I do if it gets delayed or neglected. The meat gives me more vital calm energy than anything else. Raw gives me way more than cooked - but Raw Meat gives the most. And 2 months after going 90-100% Raw Primal Diet - I went off Thousands of Dollars of Supplements per year. I have not tested the more controversial parts of Aajonus' information or experiences - but have benefitted incredibly from the 2 years I have been on the Primal Recovery Diet prescribed for me by Aajonus.

5. For my Life Energy - Good Karma I give thanks every day whether my Life Energy comes from plant, animal, air, water, spirit or the earth I stand upon or the people who love and support me. I want to hug the trees and plants and animals and people and universe upon whose lives mine depends.

6. It is too funny:-) I have found myself saying very similar things about "Simply Raw". It is wonderful and amazing how much help you gave those people for their serious diabetes. But after my Vegetarian experiences - I always ask myself . . . What deficiencies will they have after a few years - or decades?? It often takes 20 years to find that out. We don't know. I don't know. And I do not think you know either.

Gabriel Cousins indulged in some quiet Meat Bashing comments on the Simply Raw Video - but I was so grateful that you did not. Please stop casting the Death Energy/Bad Karma language out like a dark damning viel across people for eating an omnivorous diet -normal for humans - and so far in my case much better for their health. The bad Karma may also harm yours.

Much Love and Best Wishes on these great Diet Adventures. Thank you for your life, your knowledge and your loving spirit.

Gay