Raw foodist bashed on Dutch TV
Posted by NLveganmama on May 25, 2010 · Member since Jan 2010 · 380 posts
I'm so angry that I could scream...My husband was watching a Dutch chat show and there was a woman & her son who were raw foodists. The chat show host and his guest, a local football commentator, were totally giving her such hell about eating raw! Granted she didn't give the best arguments for it "the animals eat raw, so we should", but she did mention how her son had gone off his asthma meds since eating only raw.
It totally pissed me off that these two guys just couldn't get off the "but, you don't eat meat...you don't cook anything" and always asking the son if he felt like a outcast for not eating the same things as his friends.
ARGH.
Janel
The last semester I taught in an English-language school we had a book full of alternative stuff in the lessons. It was all dream interpretation, alternative medicine, this and that, which is good, and created conversation (and sometimes, argument). But there was a lesson on a raw-foodist family that made them all look mental. They were also "off the grid" and didn't have things like a washing machine, etc.I used it to show my students how choice of words can skew an article, and had them re-write it in a more positive way. Not the point of the lesson but it worked.
It totally pissed me off that these two guys just couldn't get off the "but, you don't eat meat...you don't cook anything" and always asking the son if he felt like a outcast for not eating the same things as his friends.
ARGH.
Janel
Because that's what kids are reallllllly being peer pressured into ::) Sigh. People!!