We Like It Raw - Raw Food Goodness

Pet Health for Dummies

Via Acorn Dog Training

"What most people feed their pets is largely dictated by big business - companies that have the financial muscle to pay for advertisements in the press, and also on TV. One pet food manufacturer in the UK spends around £35 million each year on advertising alone to tell you that its food is the best (this figure doesn't include PR or sponsorship)."

"But big business influence stretches further than advertising, through sponsorship of veterinary and research establishments. Ask a vet how he was trained in pet nutrition, and he will usually admit that, if he received any nutritional training at all, an employee of a petfood company was wheeled in to do the teaching - for maybe two days. Then, once qualified, vets are 'educated' by visiting sales reps, and the 'food' they stock in their practices is often the 'food' with the biggest margin. Veterinary nurses are also fooled into thinking they are learning about nutrition when they go on pet food manufacturers' sponsored 'training' courses."

BARF Misinformation Campaign

"BARF," which stands for biologically appropriate raw food, just makes sense. Period.

Feed animals what they would eat without "human involvement" and watch them enjoy health abundance. No more depression for dogs and leukemia for cats.

With BARF taking the pet community by storm, it's no wonder "concerned" veterinarians are putting out misinformation. We're not suggesting they are doing it purposefully, just that they haven't been taught better.

CBS News: Pets' Raw Food Diets Cause Concern

We Like It Raw - Audio Post

The following message is a 'We Like It Raw' audio post. Your editor, Dhrumil Purohit, has not yet had a chance to add a text description. So don't go wild and start cooking up a storm. As soon as we get internet access we'll be sure to clean things up.

In the mean time stay raw and enjoy the audio.

Pure Cafe: "Ya'll Keep It Raw Now, Ya Hear?"

It seems even our friends in Texas are jonesin for some raw-food!

Thanks to Cynthia Beavers (chef & owner) Pure Cafe is Texas' first raw restaurant serving organic living cuisine. And boy are we excited. In fact this is such great news that we just might need to have a spiritual-hoedown. Actually, I think Pure Cafe is one step ahead of us - the party & Grand Opening is August 15.

Pure Cafe
2720 Greenville Avenue
Dallas, Texas 75206
214-824-7776
Menu, Wine List, Photos, Directions

More Buzz from Pure Cafe

• Spa-Magazine - The Raw Food Revolution
• Paper City - Pure Cafe Review
• Advacate Magazine - Out & About
• Star Telegram - Rah, Raw!
• Dallas Morning News

The duck is alive!

Someone finally figured out that buying raw-foods online should be fun!

Herbivore Issue 8

Via veg blog: Herbivore Magazine is a lot more veg/vegan than raw, but they do have excellent features that we'd gladly proclaim as raw worthy.

Issue 8's Features

• Why Not Eat Your Pet
• SHAC 7 defendant Josh Harper interview
• Author and podcaster Erik Marcus interview
• Tales of a Rookie Protester
• Montreal vegetarian guide
• 5 Reasons to go Veg You May Not Have Thought Of
• Comic artist Travis Nichols
• A deathless picnic planner
• Vegetarian soul food restaurant article
• Musician Bobby Wratten interview
• And all the ussual suspects (aka columnists)

David & Regina Cooked, David & Regina Raw

This beautiful before and after story comes straight from Downunder. Special thanks to Ricardo of rawfood.com.au for the link.

David's Story
At the age of nineteen, I was diagnosed with stage two cancer.  Throughout my whole ordeal, I treated my illness as though I had a minor cold. I had no doubt that I would survive the cancer and live a normal and healthy life; it was just a matter of getting through the barrage of chemotherapy sessions and the drugs that were highly toxic to my system. More.

Regina's Story
Looking back, a raw food lifestyle presented itself numerous times before I decided to jump in with both feet. My first introduction to raw food came after following up a personal ad in Kyoto, Japan. During the first encounter with my mystery date, he told me about how he just ate raw food and the amount of energy and vitality that he felt due to this lifestyle choice. I had to admit, the man looked vibrant with health, but I thought to myself, “What a weirdo! How could he just eat raw food?” More.

Vanessa's Raw Chocolate Sauce

This awesome recipe comes to us via Vanessa Sherwood. Find our more about Vanessa and her personal chef services at somelikeitraw.net

Ingredients

• 1 c. maple syrup* (grade B if you have it)
• 1/2 c. agave nectar
• 6 Tbls. raw cacao nibs
• 2 Tbls. cacoa powder**
• 1 Tbls. virgin coconut oil
• 1 tsp. nama shoyu
• seeds from 1/2 vanilla bean (optional)

Directions
Place all ingredients in your VitaMix and blend on high for approx. 30 seconds until smooth. This sauce can be used for many things.

Recipe Notes
*Agave nectar can be used in place of the maple syrup.  It just won't give it as much depth of flavor as the maple syrup does. **Carob powder can be used in place of the cocoa powder, or you can do half carob, half cocoa.

Celebrity Waterhole: Drinking from the PURE fountain of youth

Via New York Daily News:

"Eat it raw: "I've never been at a party where all the guests are so thin - it's probably the food," Kyle MacLachlan told me the other night. It was at a fete for Matthew Kenney and Sarma Melngailis' non-cookbook, "Raw Food/Real World," at the authors' Irving Place restaurant, Pure Food and Wine. As waiters passed around various veggie concoctions from the book, the likes of Darren Star, Elisabeth Röhm and Ann Curry nibbled around the edges - and meat-eating me got hungrier and hungrier. Never mind Darryl Hannah's claim: "I love this food. I love to come to this restaurant. The food is very satisfying and makes you feel satiated." It's obviously working for her."

Bonobo's Reviewed (Verdict Cheap, Simple & Tasty!)

Bonobo's Vegetarian is cheap, quick, tasty, clean and simple. Check out the squad's on-site audio review.