Yesterday Leah came over to my house and made a gourmet dinner and an amazing chocolate cake for a group of friends. Of course the food was delicious, healthy and full of life giving enzymes, but it was also food that was kind to the environment. That’s because, outside of a couple of plastic wrappers from some Nori sea vegetable sheets, Leah’s meal only produced ogranic, compostable trash.
If most people ate the way we do, there would be no real plastic garbage problem in Bali. When you look around the island and see plastic on the roads or floating in the canals about 90% of it has to do with some sort of food wrapping or containment. In my opinion, that’s just crazy. Whenever possible I reuse my plastic bags and the little bit that I do throw away, I send to ecobali recycling.
The environmental benefits of eating raw stretch beyond our small island. I remember a friend in New Zealand commenting that his family reduced their garbage by 80% when they started eating raw food instead of buying prepackaged stuff. They went from 1 large black trash bag a week to about 1/2 of one per month!! Amazing.
And the benefits don’t stop there. Eating raw food helps the environment by encouraging local eating, thus eliminating some of the costs of transport of food. It also encourages us to support small, organic local farmers and to even grow food ourselves. In the long run it could also save humanity. If indeed the population of the earth doubles by 2050, we’re either going to need a lot more land to continue eating how we generally eat now or a lot more of us are going to have to adopt a simple diet based on local raw vegan foods. I sincerely hope for all of us, that it’s the latter of the two.
Every time you eat a raw vegan meal you can pat yourself on the back for doing just a little to help this precious earth.
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