QuoteOriginally posted by Dave Bulla:
Ummmm, what's a fruitarian?  sounds like someone who doctors sick fruit....

As an ex-fruitarian...

One who only eats seeds or fruits, fruits being the flesh of the seeds.

Plants produce fruit intentionally for animals to take the fruit away spilling seeds along the way thus spreading the next generation over a wider area.  Some seeds need to actually pass through an animal before they can germinate.

At first glance most people are like, what the hell do you eat then?  But when you consider that all the cereals are seeds, beans, lentils, rice, all fruit, most spices, etc..

I'm a fully qualified chef, have studied nutrition and all that, so i know what i'm talking about and was able to live quite happily on that alone.

What changed my perception was when i got some land to grow stuff on.  Then i had to think about pests and pest control, fertilisers, etc..

Once i got down to the nitty gritty of actually having to grow and produce my own fruit, instead of getting it from a supermarket, i started to realise that it was not possible to produce even a fruitarian diet without the necessity of killing things like pests, or using animal products or chemicals for fertilisers.

At the same time a great tv series started in the UK, called River Cottage, where an ex-chef from a top London restaurant moved down to Devon, where i now live, and started up a small holding and started to show people in television land exactly where their food comes from and what has to suffer to make it.  If you can get any of the River Cottage stuff over in the US then have a watch - especially the early stuff.

All in all it started me thinking more about what i was eating and what actually did happen to bring that to my plate and at the end i decided the only ethical course left was to move out of the city to the country get into wild food.

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