The question has come up again in my brain. Can you eat locally, really locally on a raw food diet? Are raw food veganism ideals actually sustainable? On environmental, food mile and nutritional levels?
Obviously it's completely absurd to have just eaten cashews from Indonesia and olives from Peru in my dinner, even though they were delicious, organic, fair trade and sustainably farmed, it is far too far. If eating only raw vegan foods are supernutrients and supplements from faraway actually important or even useful? How do we get around seaweed? How do we even get around bananas from the tropics? If you only ate fresh fruit and vegetables from your local area would you be okay? No grain, no nuts, no oils unless local (goodbye coconut butter)? How would this work? Would you also need to eat some cooked/raw wild meat and eggs sometimes? Can wild greens really provide enough protein? Is hempseed not a viable source of protein in Australia? if we consider primitive diets- A high raw foods plant based diet with the ocassional pounce might make more sense. Than the intellectual blending of superpowders and tropical fruit when you live closer to antartica than Hawaii. Anyway these are just thoughts that come every now and again and I honour their seriousness in this time of awakening and transition.
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