Are raw vegans liars or just stupid?

[Vater Araignee]

Let me preface this by saying. there is difference between strict Vegetarians and Vegetarians who think they are vegan¹ and true Vegans. It is called evangelical ideology IE They are the piece of shit who insists you are a piece of shit that should be punished for not following their ideology. Anyway....

 

Since my dietary change I have been watching videos and reading articles and blogs about diets (that is right I fight conformation bias) and I'm noticing something.

The raw vegans are either liars or outright stupid.

There are 5 "foods" I noticed that are common among them.

1. plant based protein powder
2. raw sugar
3. soy milk
4. raw cashew² butter
5. cocoa powder

First lets look at the definition of cooking " Cooking or cookery is the art, technology, science and craft of preparing food for consumption." So there is that but I'll go stricter. Adding heat, biology or chemicals (to alter structures not just flavor) to prepare food for consumption. Anyone who thinks a brine pickled cucumber is a raw cucumber is a fool. Think real sauerkraut is raw cabbage? Well you probably have an i.q. equivalent to the sauerkraut. One has been chemically cooked and the other biologically so though technically still chemically cooked. Lets look at those five foods with:

HEAT:

1. plant based protein powder: Many are made using high heat processing methods. That automatically kills the raw claim but the next issue is high heat destroys nutrients. I'll get to other methods
2. raw sugar. Sugar syrups must be dehydrated using high heat to prevent fermentation. as the crystals are formed they are separated from they syrup and further dried.
3. soy milk. Grind up that soy, mix it in water, boil the mix and strain. Come to think of it I could add that flavorless booger textured white trash tofu here it has to be cooked to be processed. Oh by the way according to Asians diets you should only be consuming soy as condiment soooo less than 1.5 ounces a week with an occasional splurge?
4. raw cashew butter. if you get the wrong RAW cashew at worst will kill you at best make you wish you where dead. The shells contain phenolic lipids, cardanol and anacardic acid. Eat poison ivy and tell me I'm wrong. They are steam roasted for at lest 10 minutes left in the vessel for at least 20 more and then placed in open air to cool for about 12 hours, Better believe that nut has started cooking, but wait, there's more! After the outer shell is removed They are then placed in an oven for 24 hours at 140f and then cooled for another 12 hours. Yup got cooked twice. Oh by the way when you see RAW cashews in the shell in the store Just know it is a lie, it is illegal to sell RAW cashews in America and even if it weren't I highly doubt that the store would want the lawsuit that would follow.
5. cocoa powder. Well the beans are roasted. But that aint all.

BIO

1. plant based protein powder. Depending on how you look at things this could go here, enzymes are biological molecules right? This is the lest common method of production because it is the most expensive, but even if you reject the idea that using enzymes counts as cooking, a crap ton of the ingredients that are added to the extracted proteins have been cooked by heat and or chemical processing. Just had a thought, using proteins to extract proteins = digestion.
2. cocoa powder. Well the beans are fermented. But that aint all.

 

CHEMICAL

1. plant based protein powder. Hexane, a chemical neurotoxin derived from petroleum that can, I'm not saying will, just can damage your central nervous system. Don't think I need to say more but I will add that many vegetable oils³ use it as a processing method too.
2. cocoa powder. Well this can be iffy coco comes in natural and dutched or dutch processed . After the fermented beans have been roasted and ground into a past from witch the fats are then extracted you are left with the solids which are ground into a fine powder. For natural, this is the end of the line, it gets packaged into the bitter product that I loved mixing into avocado to make the avocado tolerable. Dutched is washed with potassium carbonate to neutralize its ph to 7 then you have heavy or black dutch which is taken to a ph of 8 (i miss oreos). Why do I bring this up? Well every raw vegan I have seen uses a very dark cocoa powder whose color can only be explained by the dutching process. It could be their cameras and lighting, but all of their cameras and lighting? What, does their religion require ALL of the raw vegans the world over to use the same type of camera and lighting? Occam's razor dictates that I just haven't seen thew few sugar addicts that like natural cocoa.

 

¹Vegetarians who think they are vegan because the Vegans and Seventh-day Adventists  have done a very good job of conflating the ideology of veganism with the dietary practice vegetarianism.

²Cashews are referred to as BLOOD NUTS you know, like BLOOD DIAMONDS. Geeee I woooondeeeer whyyyy

³Oils, you should probably research how types of oils are extracted but it is a good bet that if it cant be cost effectively extracted without chemicals you probably shouldn't be eating it.

A quick blurt about soy and enter their midlife change, you should probably be avoiding soy like the plague. Unfiltered beer because 1 bottle can contain more yeast than a loaf of bread, and cannabis edibles and topicals too thoe not to the extent you should be avoiding soy. Why? Because you testosterone is dropping...

Soy contains contains phytoestrogens called isoflavones that mimic the activity of the hormone estrogen.

Brewer's yeast has para-aminobenzoic acid, a compound that stimulates the production of estrogen and lowers follicle-stimulating hormones.

Weed, I don't know, but out of the long term smokers I know and the long term swallowers I know only the swollowers have grown boobs once the above two factors are removed.

Swallowers growing boobs, there is a joke there, I'm sure of it.