The redneck strike again.

[Confused Ape]

What did you have?

Wild rice with a vegetarian steak.
For drink i had sunflower milk shake (sunflower seed, lecithin, water, blended together)
Yummy.

Did you cook your wild rice and steak? There are people who insist that cooked food is unnatural and bad for our health.

The Science Of Raw Food

Scores of unnatural chemical by-products with damaging effects on health are produced by cooking. For example, cooked carbohydrates can do much more than create weight problems. They can turn into a carcinogen called acrylamide, a chemical used to make plastics and dyes that has caused cancer in animals - the higher the cooking temperature, the greater the levels of acrylamide. Frying, one of the worst kinds of cooking, makes oils oxidize creating harmful ‘free radicals’ and increasing the risk of cancer, heart disease and premature aging. Ironically, frying also destroys the Vitamins A and E which we need to protect us from free radicals.

It wasn’t always like this. Fire was only discovered a relatively short time ago in archeological terms. Before that, there was no intentional cooking at all. Even today, of the millions of species of animals and insects on the Earth, only people intentionally eat cooked food. In fact, we’ve become dependent on cooked food – addicted to it! So much so that the very idea of living on a diet of raw, uncooked, live food may even seem preposterous! “What do you eat, rabbit food?” We’ve forgotten what real food tastes like, and not so coincidently, we’ve forgotten what it feels like to be completely alive and healthy.

Then there's the problem with rice and other grains according to people who have decided they're unnatural for the human diet.

Health Dangers Of Bread, Pasta And Rice

Genetically speaking, we’re identical to our ancestors of at least 40,000 years ago. We’re hunter-gatherers, and our bodies don’t take kindly to the newfangled grains that were nonexistent in our primal diet.

Studies have revealed that cereal grains, especially wheat, maize, and barley, and dairy products contain opioid substances called exorphins. Opioid substances have a very similar sequence of amino acids to thsoe in our natural endorphins and apparently can bind to endorphin receptors in the brain… In simple terms, exorphnis produce narcotic-like and mood-altering affects and can be addictive.

Do you agree with these views about cooking and grains? After all, the people who promote these beliefs are using the same kind of arguments that you use as so called proof that meat eating is unnatural.

Unless you're trying to say that fruits are not plants, then...

This idea seems to be influenced by Jain philosophy.

Jain Vegetarianism

Also, consumption of most root vegetables involves uprooting and killing the entire plant. Whereas consumption of most terrestrial vegetables doesn't kill the plant (it lives on after plucking the vegetables or it was seasonally supposed to wither away anyway).

Eating fruit doesn't kill plants, either, because fruit is meant to fall off a plant.