posted July 08, 2013 08:40 PM            

I would love to have raw cheese but don't know if it is a good food or a bad one.

What do you think?

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posted July 09, 2013 09:17 AM            

I am super interested in what you think because I gave up all cheese from reading a girl's FB who is a raw vegan. She is awesome and she says cheese is bad for humans, as are eggs.

I feel good with no cheese but cheese is such a great food that I am starting to consider it again.

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posted July 09, 2013 01:26 PM            

Sprouted wheat tortilla cut in half, with brown mustard. Pile one side with portobello mushroom, red onion slivers, arugula, tomato slices and raw cheese. Top with the other side and grill for a few minutes just until the cheese melts.

*pausing to take a bite and wipe off my fingers*

It's really good. Yes the cheese is unpasteurized so the enzymes, especially lactase, remain in the cheese. Some of my German friends who've had lung trouble are convinced that raw dairy products actually clear up their lungs, digesting old debris that accumulated there back when they ate pasteurized/homogenized dairy. I trust Germans, they don't say things just for the fun of it.

posted July 09, 2013 01:27 PM            

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Originally posted by Randall:
Cheese is rotten milk. Not sure how it could be raw. Do you mean unpasteurized?

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posted July 09, 2013 01:55 PM            

Ditto everything Faith said. I've also known several people unable to tolerate pasteurized, homogenized milk and cheese yet do just fine with raw. In fact, it appears to ease a wide array of assorted maladies. For instance, seasonal allergies respond fantastically well to raw milk, cheese and honey. Locally harvested, of course.

Down with dead milk! (just make certain it's grass fed)

posted July 09, 2013 04:22 PM            

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Originally posted by Randall:
Cheese is rotten milk. Not sure how it could be raw. Do you mean unpasteurized?

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Yes--the same, Randall.

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posted July 09, 2013 05:52 PM            

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Originally posted by shura:
I've also known several people unable to tolerate pasteurized, homogenized milk and cheese yet do just fine with raw. In fact, it appears to ease a wide array of assorted maladies. For instance, seasonal allergies respond fantastically well to raw milk, cheese and honey. Locally harvested, of course.

Down with dead milk! (just make certain it's grass fed)

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Yes GRASS FED and humanely treated cows make

awesome cheese.

In Ayurveda, raw milk that is freshly boiled is recommended as one of the staples of people with a Vata (thin, dry, rapid-moving) constitution. There's no substitute for it. I am Kapha-Vata and from my experience can say that I feel great when I have raw milk in my diet. It's been a while, though, since it's hard to obtain.

Ghee, which is similar to clarified butter, is regarded as a cleansing fat. This is ancient wisdom emerging from back when people were more in tune with the earth and their bodies. I trust it.

posted July 09, 2013 09:43 PM            

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Originally posted by Ami Anne:
Thanks Faith and Shura
I want to order some and was waiting on some opinions!

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Give us a report after you've indulged, Ami.

posted July 09, 2013 09:59 PM            

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Originally posted by shura:
I trust it too. Know very little about, mind you but I have a general intuitive trust. Ayurveda has been on my list of subjects to give further attention to for so many years.

I'm more familiar with the Four Temperaments, where I tend toward the melancholic. I think that best relates to Kapha?

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I can only guess, I would think all three doshas can manifest as melancholic, but in different ways.

To my mind, Kapha is phlegmatic, Pitta is choleric, Vata is sanguine.

posted July 09, 2013 10:03 PM            

She told me that raw cheese is not good and I should make a vegan version if I want cheese, so I am gonna wait.

I can live without it but if it was good for you, I would get it.

I love raw fish and we have a fish market which has that. I kind of feel that a vegan needs to add some animal protein. I could be wrong about this, though.

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posted July 10, 2013 06:56 AM            

My friend's cousin died of pernicious anemia, maybe that's why I tread extra carefully. B-12 supplements can work but I suspect they are not a good substitute for the real thing: I believe we were designed (or evolved) to consume animal food.

I love John Robbins, son of the founder of Baskin-Robbins, author of Diet for a New America, which espouses veganism. His writing is just outstanding and very convincing. However, he raised his son Ocean as a vegan, and his son looks very unhealthy, and Ocean's children are autistic. The Robbins family, like too many vegans I've seen, seem to have serious breathing trouble, and that is another B-12 deficiency symptom.

posted July 10, 2013 08:18 AM            

I guess a little fish and maybe raw cheese is good. I love raw fish. That is one of the most delicious foods, to me, and it is still raw.

I notice that I get tired when I eat cooked foods. I think my body is so used to raw.

Anyway, you are right, Faith. Many total vegans do not look healthy.

You guys should check out SRV on FB. Her name is Drew and she is very cool. She believes in total vegan and looks great.

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