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1350 pound pumpkins, 9 inch circumference figs,

apple trees dropping thousands of pounds of free food..

these are the gifts of God

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Why Fruitarians Are Smartest



Every time a fruitbearing tree drops free food, wealth is created out of nothing through the agency of a

seed, sunlight, rain, and mother earth.

Money does grow on trees.. on avocado, macadamia, mango, plum, apple, almond trees.

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So tell me.. do celery stalks around

the world send cards to fruitarians

on their birthdays?

-JBO-





http://fruitarians.blogspot.com

http://www.fruitarian.com

http://spot.acorn.net/fruitarian

http://health.yahoo.com/news/170005...3MmcszYXz0Yu7cF





Fruit and nut trees, berry bushes, pumpkin, cucumber and grape vines, fruityielding plants have the highest yield of any food, are the most nonviolent, the only food containing the seeds of eternity, the healthiest food, the most energy conserving



Orchards of centenarian trees can yield 450, 000 or more pounds per acre as compared to 100 to 1000 lbs for animal flesh. Trees can grow on scrub land if they are started and maintained through irrigation. Australian Richard St Barbe Baker was responsible for the planting of billions of trees in the world.





WHY FRUITARIANS ARE SMARTEST: VEGAN AND FRUITARIAN BRAINS







William Shakespeare's comment on the cause of Alzheimer's in "12th Night" He is a heavy eater of beef. Methinks it doth harm to his wit. Modern

research indicates it is the amyloid

plaque, formed from the residue

of the protein in animal and fish

flesh, which lines the cerebral

arteries blocking the flow of blood

to the brain.





Fruitarian Leonardo DaVinci: an analysis of his notebooks

indicates he ate no flesh. He was a fruitarian and the genius was also the strongest man in Florence, says a biographer.



Mary Shelley who wrote Frankenstein at age 19 as a treatise against lab research on animals.. was a vegetarian.



Mathematician Ramanujan: a vegetarian



Albert Einstein.. a vegetarian who ate 1 bite of meat a year on a Jewish holiday to appease his wife

http://www.jewishveg.com/schwartz



Pythagoras, discoverer of the Pythagorean theorem: a vegetarian



Nicola Tesla, genius inventor, was a vegetarian, reported

Pandeva Zagar



Linus Pauling: only winner of both the Nobel Peace and Biochemistry Prizes, (discovered 6 new elements in the periodic table), advocated

fruit as the food which most approximates neural transmitters. He wrote a book on vitamin C as the body's natural toxin bouncer. His work so threatened pharmaceutical multinationals that he was followed around on his lecture tours by them. Vitamin C also speeds the flow of electrical signals across the brain's synapses. Unfortunately Pauling's Center For Orthomolecular Research after his death was subsumed by the University of Oregon, a primate torturer, which has not advanced his work

Pauling defined an orthomolecule or right molecule as a fruitarian or fruit-based one. He wrote that the neurotransmitters of the brain are all fruit based. .Vitamin C is best taken in whole uncooked fruit a. to buffer

the stomachb. to allow the time

release of the water soluble vitamin

and c. because cooking destroys C) C

also removes toxins from brain cells.

http://fruitarians.blogspot.com



Benjamin Franklin, author of 'an apple a day keeps the doctor away' was a vegetarian when he discovered electricity. Later in Paris he

wrote that he had lapsed into venison and venery (venereal disease).



Just as we find that eating a lion's heart brings not courage but adrenalin we find that eating monkey brains brings not intellect but Mad Cow or kuru.



We all have the same Indweller God inside, but some have a greater opening to the God within.





WHAT IN ANIMAL FLESH HARMS BRAIN FUNCTION?



1 Animal fat clogs all arteries, including cerebral arteries, and leads to stroke and heart disease, the world's number 1 killer.

2 Amyloid plaque, a byproduct of animal protein, causes Alzheimer's or senility

as it lines the cerebral arteries, cerebral cells, and all the arteries of the body.

3 Mercury reduces long range memory.. and is concentrated in animal and fish flesh

as well as toxic vaccines

4 Prions: the work of Nobel laureate Dr Stanley Prusiner was put on a back burner at Harvard, which is invested in the meat industry. He continued his prion research at UC. Prions are a cause of Mad Cow or bovine spongiform encephalopathy, cervine spongiform encephalopathy (Mad Deer) etc. http://www.mad-cow.org 7000 articles http://www.madcowboy.com

5 Monosodium glutamate MSG is not intrinsic to meat but is put into the muscle flesh of meat to tenderize it. It also breaks down the muscle and nerve tissue of humans eating the MSG meat.. it is called the Chinese restaurant headache cause.

vitamin C: speeds up the flow of signals across nervesynapses in brain and elsewhere.. is in all uncooked fruit.. is in no meat or dairy http://www.acorn.net/fruitarian

6

HYPOXIA OR NOT ENOUGH OXYGEN TO THE BRAIN

a caused by animal fat occluding cerebral arteries

b caused by tryptophane, an animal flesh protein which

generates sleepiness

c caused by animal protein digestion (a lion sleeps 3 days

after devouring a murdered antelope)

7 There is no vitamin C in any animal product. Vitamin C speeds the flow

of neural signals across the brain's synapses as well as eliminating toxins

from the body.

8

red blood cells

Vegans and fruitarians have more red blood cells per cubic centimeter. Their blood is more purple. More red blood cells means more flow of oxygenated blood to the brain.

9 no adrenalin Adrenalin, a fear and terror hormone secretedby agonized animals, is a long protein enzyme, some of whose links remain intact after cooking.. giving similar biochemical effects to meat eaters and interfering with concentration.





THE BRAIN

http://www.pcrm.org 7000 members nearly 1000 of whom are vegan MD's

http://www.vegsource.com Michael Klaper MD

http://www.vegansociety.org Stephen Walsh MD

http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org

http://www.notmilk.com





Leonardo da Vinci: One day the world

will look upon the eating of animals as it now looks upon the eating of human beings.

(It is an analysis of his Notebooks by

authors such as Dudley Giehl which indicates that DaVinci referred only to the eating of fruits and pastas (the latter is a fruit under the definition that it is the product of a plant.



Albert Einstein: (paraphrased) The most important evolutionary step humanity can take is to evolve toward vegetarianism. Dr. Einstein said in his autobiography that angels gave him the theory of relativity.



Isaac Newton wrote that he was an aspiring vegetarian.







Representative Dan Burton has held hearings about the danger of thethe hepatitis vaccine. Its mercury is related to autism and to the causation of multiple sclerosis.









While all are temples of the indwelling God

and while all can access God's omniscience (for it is the

size of the opening to the Light within which determines

consciousness) those with the highest number of Phd's

both per capita and in numbers are the Asian Indians*

who have been more vegetarian than any other group.









Sai Baba, believed to be an Avatar or God Incarnation by over 100 million people

http://www.sathyasai.org http://www.eaisai.com/baba



Dick Gregory author

of Cooking With Mother Nature for Folks Who Eat who convinced the poster

to aspire to fruitarian diet.. who has run across America

to focus on justice issues http://www.dickgregory.com









http://www.pcrm.org http://spot.acorn.net/fruitarian http://www.thefruitarianlife.com

http://rawfoodsupport.com/

http://www.ivu.org







Recommended Reading: The Holy Science by Sri

Yukteswar,, guru of Yogananda, whose book has

a chapter on frugivorous indications in human

anatomy.







HEALING

As cholesterol and plaque slowly build up in the brain, they can slowly be eliminated through chelation

therapy or fruitarian or vegan diet. Fruit juice fasts can eliminate these

toxins more quickly.



CHILDREN WITH HIGH IQ MORE LIKELY

TO BECOME VEGETARIAN



http://www.forbes.com/forbeslife/he...cout600136.html



TEXT OF ONLINE BOOK

FRUITARIAN HEALTH



The healthiest food (see below for .vitamin C . weight loss. .natural fiber .least food poisoning .antiacidification .most digestible .natural for anatomy .prevention of calcium oxylate kidney stones . electrolyte balance . polysaccharides which prevent insulin exhaustion .fruitarian oils like olive oil best for heart .counters sleep-inducers .contains no volatile sulfur gases {onions do} .most natural prevention of scurvy, beri beri, and pellagra .eyesight conservation .bouncer of free radicals .stimulate enzymes which detoxify carcinogens, immune system booster .prevent diet-related diseases such as diabetes, arthritis, and heart disease through high potassium and other factors . no artificial colors, flavors, or MSG . the most efficient B12 {hydroxyl cobalamin not cyanocobalamin} .ulcer prevention with less hydrochloric acid)



FRUITARIAN NONVIOLENCE





The only nonviolent food (no killing or theft from animal or plant) No branding, castration, or eartag punching of voiceless innocent animals.



POTENTIALLY NONVIOLENT HARVESTING The most nonviolent in harvest as well (prevention of harvester-caused deaths to humans and field mammals) (75,000 human accidents and some fatalities yearly.. as well as millions of mammals and other creatures sliced by combines, harvesters) (Gandhi said goats' milk kept him from being a full fruitarian.)



MOST GENEROUS the only freely given food, from the fruit tree which bequeaths all





FREE





The most free food (freely given and no cost are not the same)(bury peachseeds in your back yard and come back)(May all who wish them have back yards)



Saves meat inspector costs, cattle raising tax-supported subsidies etc.



HIGHEST YIELD



Best feeds the hungry.. the food with the highest acreage yield (400,000 lbs. per acre) (spherical 3 dimensional fruit trees produce more than linear two dimensional rows of vegetables.) Dr. Faust, former chief of the USDA fruit labs: Centenarian apple trees can drop 2 tons each of food. (This is further multiplied if fruitbearing vines are planted around tree trunks and fruitbearing plants are placed interarboreally. This is called tri-level agriculture.)



MOST DIVERSE food yield with millions of varieties of hundreds of thousands of species.





ENVIRONMENT





The only food which can reforest the world (saying yes to tree products)

In reforesting the earth fruit and nut trees prevent erosion & mudslides and stabilizes temperature extremes And brings rain to desert, dust bowls and drought areas And trees along with vines create oxygen

And purify and filter the air

And reduce the noise pollution of the planet.

The most efficiently wrapped (nutshells, banana peels, coconut husks)

The most decentralized (can be grown wherever are light, water, earth, and air)

Fruit trees, bushes and vines provide the most fabric for the planet (cotton etc.)

Fruit trees, bushes and vines provide housing materials (not in the form of wood from the killing of trees but fallen palm fronds etc. used in tropical housing.) 18b: Fruit eliminates the problem of flesh-containing trash which attracts neighborhood cats and dogs.

In reforesting, fruitarian diet adds greentree privacy screens

Those who let things be have no time, money, or landfill problem with the raking of fall leaves.

And re-provides a home for wildlife

And trees eat carbon dioxide which prevents global warming 22a: Fastest to prepare.. the Goddesigned fast food is fruit.



ENERGY



Since fruit has the most prolific yield of any food, and since any food can be turned into fuel, fruit (corn is only one of many) is one of the best sources of alternative fuel. (Fox TV Jan 24th: High fiber foods like oats give longer energy flow.)

The most energy free food in cultivation, harvest, and compost disposal. (Dr. Don Meyer: a lb. of vegetables takes l/80th the production energy of a lb. of animal flesh)(Fruit foods are in tri level agriculture 450 times as energy efficient as meat)

Fruitarian soaps leave none or the least bathtub rings while animal soaps (with lard or tallow) leave the most.

Fruitarian cotton paper lasts 400 years. Libraries are finding that tree paper lasts 60 to 100 years.

Fruit is the most easily reproduced of of all foods. It can be windsired.

The diet of humankind before we worked by the sweat of our brows

Because it is the most easily reproduced, and the most diverse, it most easily makes new non-laboratory species.



THE MOST BEAUTIFUL



The most beautiful (stained glass lime.. green pepper belltower where little seedbells hang)(fruits of almost infinite hues.. from most intense to most pastel.. from red passion to violet compassion)

The food which most preserves the body's beauty (the most vitamin C (none in animal products)(vitamin C firms cellular tissue)

Fruit is the sweetest food, meat the most bitter.

Fruit is the most fragrant.. with petaled fruit blossoms which effortlessly attract bees



WEIGHT LOSS

Of all dietary groups, fruitarians on the average weigh the least (Dr. Mervyn Hardinge's isocaloric study at an Ivy

League University which he left because of the institution's

investment in slaughterhouse stocks found that after

3 months each subject having the same number of calories, nonvegetarians weighed the most, vegetarians

12 lbs. less and vegans 23 lbs less with fruitarians

not in the study weighing the least.)

(You can't be too rich or too thin.. say the actuaries about centenarian men.) (The causes of overweight are only tangentially overeating. Some of the root causes are fear of starvation, fear of sexual intimacy, a need for a weight blanket to counter sensitivity, unreleased anger, chewing as a relaxation device.) There have been a number of fruitarian diet books written, such as one on grapefruit, one on grape juice etc. Susan Estrich, former Dukakis presidential campaign manager, currently a law professor at UC, spoke of struggling with hundreds of diet books and overweight for 30 years, says be prepared to walk past vending machines by having apples in your purse or briefcase.





ADDICTION BREAKING





The uric acid (pre-urine) in the muscle cells of animal flesh is an addictive trioxypurine, even more so than caffeine (dioxypurine) A diet of much fruit replaces addictive biochemicals.



NATURAL ANTIDEPRESSANT



The adrenal poisons dumped by animals fighting for their lives in slaughter re-create depression, fright, and anger in those eating the animal flesh. Adrenalin is a long protein enzyme chain whose chain links are only partially broken by cooking heat.



BREAKING ALCOHOLISM'S CHAINS



General Bramwell Booth of the Salvation Army found that vegetarian diet is a natural antidote to the biochemical marriage of meat and alcohol. Current researchers find that as alcohol solvents outside the body cut grease, so do they inside. (May other cities have proportionately as many corner fruit stands and fruit and smoothie vendors as the Big Apple has.)

Fruits which are uncooked or eaten within 3 hours after cooking do not develop sleep-inducing bacteria (known in ancient over 20,000 year old Sanskrit as tamasic)



RECYCLING



After 3 days, animal flesh starts to

stink. Nuts are Godwrapped and

last for years, requiring no earth

harming landfill clogging packaging.

Apples last months in a cool fruit

cellar.







EMPOWERMENT





The food which saves the most time (compare 3 hours for a roast to 20 seconds to peel a banana or 3 minutes to cook a fruitarian burger ) (Compare the time to scrub a roast pan and all the concomitant dishes to the time required to compost a peel.)

Because fruit is so prolific, it melts away money, political and outside control systems which depend upon scarcity.

Promotes Meditation:



As high quality wiring helps channel electricity into a home, fruitarian diet is a ground for Spirit. Specifically lauric acid in coconuts is conducive to a meditative, peaceful state.

Just as the infra-red to ultraviolet light spectrum increases in frequency from red through orange and yellow to green blue and violet, so in fruits and foods in general. Therefore, limes are better than lemons. Violet grapes are better than crimson cherries.

Promotes Focus:



John Feinstein NPR Sports spoke of Bill Walton on the Portland Blazers team scoring in 21 of 22 basket attempts. (During that time Mr. Walton was wearing Love Animals Don't Eat Them tshirts at press conferences.)



WAYS THE GOVERNMENT PROMOTES

TOXIC FLESH



Besides the consumption of

cloned cadavers of Dolly and other

hundredth lambs, The FDA and USDA also allow:



1. the spraying of animal flesh with

a 5 virus blend called bacteriophages

2. carcinogenic irradiation of meat

3. the passing of Mad Cows, Mad Pigs,

Mad Fish, Mad Chicken etc.

4. female hormones banned by the EU

and correlated to breast, prostate

and uterine cancers to be given to

animals to make them gain water

weight

5. food poisoning deaths to be blamed

on vegetables.. before there is any

testing

6. cadavers to be passed through

by speed doubled inspection lines

.. animals with cancerous tumors

and discolored flesh, animals covered

with flies..;. whizz by

7. the hiring of illegals at Swift,

Cargill, Conagra, Tyson's, Perdue

and other slaughterhouses

(for who else wants to be ankle deep

in blood, urine and fecal matter..

in very cold places, murdering

animals fighting for their lives.. )

8. aforementioned consumption of

cloned animals

9. cadavers full of insecticides,

antibiotics



Ann Veneman of the American Meat

Institute and then the USDA now

heads UNICEF, spreading American

flesh hazards around the world to

children. Semantics are designed

to obscure hazards. Thus leukemia

is leukosis in a chicken, though

this is the same disease and can

be transmitted through consumption.



Captive cattle are kept not

only in concentration camps but

grazed on federal land which

prevents reforestation.



Wall St. mutual funds are heavily invested in toxic, brutal, environment

destroying stocks, despite the

fact their volatility makes them

very dangerous.



Corporate media rakes in tens of

billions annually on the advertising

of these toxic products, and silences

news of the feeding of cattle parts

to chickens in factory farms (Mad Chicken).



American tax dollars are stolen to

advertise fast food overseas.



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PLANTS LOVE FRUITARIANS SOME FRUITARIAN LINKS

your additions would be appreciated



http://www.acorn.net/fruitarian

http://www.iol.ie/~creature/Fruitarian.htm

http://www.fruitarians.com.ar .

http://www.angelfire.com/pq/paradisegardens

http://animalconcerns.netforchange.com/

http://www.egroups.com/messages/fruitarians

http://groups.msn.com/fruitarian

http://www.student.nada.kth.se/~f95-mwi/fun/

http://www.tulibertadzine.com.ar/frut/frut.php

http://www.islandnet.com/~arton/fruit.html

http://community.webtv.net/FruitLov...BRTROPICALFRUIT

http://www.angelfire.com/pq/paradisegardens/

http://frutarianxs.cjb.net/



RAW

http://www.wigmore.org

http://www.rawfood.com/retreat.html

http://www.lifefood.org

http://www.rawtimes.com 1-888-RAW-FOOD or 619-229-8259

http://www.egroups.com/subscribe/rawseattle

(unfortunately some raw groups include bloodied flesh)



NONMOWING PLANT RIGHTS

http://www.egroups.com/messages/nomow108/1





COMMERCIAL SITES

http://www.michiganapples.com





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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Sri Yukteswar, guru of Yogananda THE HOLY SCIENCE..

a chapter on fruitarianism

Dick Gregory Cookin With Mother Nature For Folks Who Eat

http://www.dickgregory.com

The works of Morris Krok

Dr Palm's book on the grape diet

THE SECRET LIFE OF PLANTS





INTERFAITH



http://www.all-creatures.org

http://www.christianveg.com

http://www.jesusveg.com

http://www.groups.msn.com/christianveg

http://www.hacres.com

http://www.compassionatespirit.com

http://www.egroups.com/messages/christianveg

http://groups.msn.com/catholicveg/cv9.msnw

http://www.egroups.com/messages/vegchristian

http://www.catholicworker.org

http://groups.msn.com/christianveg

http://groups.msn.com/catholicveg/cv9.msnw

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http://www.jewishveg.com

http://www.hindu.org

http://www.plumvillage.org

http://www.eat-halal.com

http://www.islamicconcerns.com





pt 3





Best for Economy . . . in Centenarian Trees Many Fruit Cents become Dollars:



Money does fall from trees. Look at the $2 avocados. If a centenarian avocado tree drops 2000 avocados that's $4000 per tree, $400,000 oer acre.

The food most resistant to currency fluctuation (CNN on Jan 18th ran a Swiss Radio International report which finds that businesses which marry ethics and economics do better in the long run.).

Fruit is light's expansion. Meat is killing's contraction. Love is expansion. Selfishness is constriction.

The food best for stable economies..(The drought which can destroy linear rows of plant crops does not kill orchards) (Thank you Jimmy Stewart for ordering tomato juice on the train in your movie.)









SAFETY:



Prevention of choking on meat and fish, the 6th highest cause of accidental death.

The food which causes the least grease and stove fires (Prevention of industrial accidents listed elsewhere).

Prevention of Sexual Dysfunction:



Dr. Michael Klaper MD lectures on vegan diet as a help for impotence.. relieving cholesterol pressure in arteries. He states that a 25% blockage of arteries can cause 4 times that much obstruction.

The least breast and prostate cancer.

The least gynecomastia (male breast growth from female hormones present in meat and dairy products)

Crime Prevention:



The food which causes the least incidence of rape (the female hormones given to cows, pigs, chickens, etc. cause an excitation of the sexual system in those who eat animal products) added to by adrenalin based violence (from the fright hormones secreted by animals before slaughter).

Cotton fruit can eliminate forest destruction for paper.

The pectin in apples is a fruit source for candles.

Fruitarians need less dish soap and therefore less rinsing water.

Coconut meat is an excellent chew toy for dogs.

Reduce sulfuric acid. The volatile gas of sulfur in onions, when mixed with the lachrymater of tears.. becomes hydrogen sulfide, sulfuric acid or other sulfur compounds.

World Peace and Justice:



Over a decade ago, a government research paper indicated the major cause of the crisis in Poland was a lack of meat. Entire populations were addicted to the uric acid (trioxypurine) in meat. Breaking addictions is a factor in world peace.

General Bramwell Booth of the Salvation Army ended alcoholism for London drinkers through nonmeat diet. (His father General William Booth advocated planting fruit trees along railroad tracks, in parks etc. to create food for the poor.) kept the British Navy from scurvy. So the sailors were called limeys.

A Czarist navy ship mutinied sparked by meat full of maggots. This led to an overthrow of Czarist anti peasant, anti-worker policies.

Fruit lasts longer without refrigeration or freezing. Nuts in a shell .. apples in a cellar .. coconuts within the husk.

More efficient military. The British navy found that limes prevented scurvy. The Odessa mutiny of the Czar's Odessa ship was sparked by sailors refusing to eat maggot infested meat.

Politically uniting: combines the freedom granting of the poor and the left with the conservative nature of the right.

Self Replicating:



The only food which can reproduce itself (containing eternal seeds)

The only self replicating food (Fruitarians who believe in plant sentience would be upset with Nostradamus' suggestion that in a special recipe one needs 300 roses plucked before dawn.)

Oil Source:



The oil used in eating fruit and cooking with fruit (coconut, olive, corn, nutoils etc.) is also oil which can fuel vehicles and oil machinery.





GOD DESIGNED:







Genesis 1:29 The Garden of Eden Behold I have given you herb-yielding seed. To you it shall be for meat. The Hebrew holiday of Tu B Shvat or the awakening of the fruit tree sap is one example.

Buddha: May all that have life be delivered from suffering. If plants are sentient, have feelings, this prayer implies not killing them and not using insect killers, known as insecticices. There are frequent references to fruit in the Quran.

The Essene Gospel of Peace and the research of many Biblical scholars indicates the pure diet of Jesus. His anger in the temple over money changing animal sacrificing, his cursing of the barren fig tree are some indications.

In Hinduism, Rama the first embodied avatar, was fruitarian 14 years in the forest. Krishna, the first avatar to descend with all power, was a lacto-fruitarian (eating fruit and dairy at a time when animals were loved and not factory farmed). Mahatma Gandhi tried to become a full fruitarian . Gandhi felt his love of goats' milk a barrier. He planted fruit trees all over his ashram.

A fruitarian eats nothing which has been killed or stolen. That supplants meat, dairy, and plants with the thousands of fruit and nut combinations on the planet. E.g., a fruitarian can eat an avocado sandwich, a coconut milk shake or the purest coconut ice cream made from the milk and meat of the fruit, veggie burgers made of lentil or beanpaste or tofu etc.,,a succotash of corn, limas, peas, and tomatoes, sweets made with corn syrup or date sugar, or fructose, pecan pies made with fruit sugars, fruitshakes made of a mixture of orange and banana, pear and peach, pomegranate, papaya, and plum.. a pizza of tofu, tomato, and pepper (not pepperoni), salads of tomato, cucumber, green and red peppers (but not lettuce, cabbage, or celery), nutbutters such as almond butter, tahini (a mixture of sesame seed, lemon juice, and hummus {chickpea paste}, cornbread and muffins.



The scriptures of several religions and the research of several anthropologists including that of Dr. Marvin Katz and Dr. Leakey, the son of another famous Leakey, indicates our frugivorous origins. Another implication of fruitarian diet isorganic food, since insecticides are not used with their carcinogenic and bone and teeth harming results. The book The Holy Science by Sri Yukteswar has a fruitarian chapter which inspired Dennis Weaver 40 odd years ago on the set of Gunsmoke to give up meat.

Industrial Safety--Preventing Industrial Slaughterhouse Accidents:



A UFCW union steward has said that most worker accidents occur in slaughterhouses. Fruitarian diet prevents the following accidents:

Workers are kicked, bitten, and scratched in the head by terrified animals fighting for their lives unsuccessfully.

Contract ear problems from the screaming and shrieking of the animals,

Have problems with bones in relation to the cold storage rooms.

Cuts from the metal machinery, running into computer line knives.

Alcoholism and drug use from trying to deal with the animals' suffering they are constantly absorbing.

The reduction of OSHA staff and the use of illegal aliens to fill these jobs, some of the most unpopular in the industry, intrinsically means more accidents.

Electrocution from machinery near liquid secretions.

In slaughterhouses where pig flesh is scalded, there are frequent burns.

Open grease pits for blood, grease, feces, urine are traps for tired employees.

There is ligament tearing in the back, shoulders, and arms from the lifting of 100 lb. or several hundred lb. carcasses.

Carpal tunnel is a frequent complaint of meat cutters.

As a 1980's administration doubled the legal speed of the line, there is a consequent increase in accidents.

The deregulation of some slaughterhouses has meant less trained personnel.

In fish slaughter, there are also bites, scratches, hook accidents, fishing line accidents, drownings and other trauma.

Prevention of contracting the animals' diseases in contact with slaughterhouse fluids (blood, feces, urine, vomit).

Slip and fracture themselves on blood, urine, vomit and feces soaked floors,

Lung problems from constant exposure to feather dust (A Japanese movie shown on Bravo is a tale of peach trees cut down as their spirits speak to children.).

Posted by fern on 02-12-2004 10:58 AM:



Fruitarians maybe smartest but as with anything in evolution, smartness comes with the absense of hard muscles and big body frame. There is very little of protein in vegetarian diet. Asian Indians are shorter than the Nordic men and tall Black men (like those playing Basketball), softer than the Mongoloids etc. It is only what a particular person wishes for or gets decided by life as also the heridatary factor. Sometimes even if one decides to take up more animal food to become stocky, he or she might not be able to catch up with others who had been heriditarily eating it. The same goes for vegetarianism. there is a proverb in Tamil, "Pasi edutthaalum Puli pul thingaadhu" meaning "Even if a tiger is hungry, it will not eat grass".

Posted by Shack on 02-12-2004 08:52 PM:



Fruitarianism is great if you like to be without teeth, energy, and have diabeties. For some helpful info for anyone considering a vegetarian, instincto, fruitarian, raw, or hygenic diet you can find some well informed articles at the following site:



Beyond Vegetarianism -Transcending Outdated Dogmas