Eating heirloom raw organic vegan is the ultimate FUCK YOU to corporate America.

[MineralMan]

20. Well, genuine raw food vegans are extremely limited in

their food preparations. Since many foods present themselves much better after cooking, the raw factor makes it very difficult to present attractive, flavorful food. I'm afraid that I would not prepare a meal for a raw vegan as part of a mixed guest list. If cooking is out of the question, I'd present a healthful salad of organic, locally-grown produce, and leave it at that. I'd include nuts and seeds in that salad to add protein to it, but I would not attempt to make an entire meal that matched a raw vegan's dietary restrictions. That would not be fair to my other guests, and would limit what I could offer too much.

There's a certain asceticism in some raw vegan advocates. I'm not a big fan of that when it comes to food, which should be rewarding and pleasant in many ways for those who eat it. If confronted with an ascetic vegan meal, I am nonplussed, and will probably only eat enough to be polite, and then eat something else later.

I actually have been in that situation a couple of times. Presented with a wheat grass smoothie, a dish of raw, diced root vegetables, and another dish of sprouted, uncooked grains, I simply could not find my appetite, so I nibbled a bit and found a reason to leave not much later. That is ascetic eating, and I'm simply not into that at all. Taking pleasure in one's food is one of the simple pleasures we should all be able to enjoy. When I find people who embrace a raw vegan diet, I'm not surprised to find asceticism in other areas of their philosophies. I don't find much pleasure in their company.

They're welcome to their austerity, but I can't participate.