Raw_Medic
11-08-2005, 03:34 PM
I was thinking about a trip I took like 10 years ago to Trinidad, in the carribean. By some this is considered to be close to a 3rd world country. I basically lived there for 3 months. This was pre-raw (wanted to point that out) Now the people I was staying with were not vegan or even vegetarian, but it's amazing how in less developed countries, people can be so much more natural then in our "advanced society."
Almost all of the fruit I had was local fruit. I had never enjoyed a mango before. It's amazing...over there mango trees are like palm trees in florida...they're everywhere. As you walk down the street you see pits everywhere...people will grab a mango as they walk down the street and eat it. I visited family of the people I was staying with, these people lived in "the bush," it took quite awhile to get to their homestead, roads don't go there, you have to hike on the side of a mountain. Once there we were able to drink from a stream that ran past their home, a mango tree was there too, we used rocks or long sticks to knock them out of the tree...they had fresh herbs growing wild outdoors...it was amazing to me. I had always bought those things in a store.
Isn't it funny how people would think these people to be living primitavely...and that we're living well. I would give anything to be living in a society like that right now...where I could go out and pick my food and know that it's so good for me, and didn't originate in some pesticide filled farm somewhere, but in God's forest with nutrient rich soil.
People think of this as "poor" and lower class. What a much higher class of living these people have. We should all be so lucky.
Just a thought...hope you don't mind.
Almost all of the fruit I had was local fruit. I had never enjoyed a mango before. It's amazing...over there mango trees are like palm trees in florida...they're everywhere. As you walk down the street you see pits everywhere...people will grab a mango as they walk down the street and eat it. I visited family of the people I was staying with, these people lived in "the bush," it took quite awhile to get to their homestead, roads don't go there, you have to hike on the side of a mountain. Once there we were able to drink from a stream that ran past their home, a mango tree was there too, we used rocks or long sticks to knock them out of the tree...they had fresh herbs growing wild outdoors...it was amazing to me. I had always bought those things in a store.
Isn't it funny how people would think these people to be living primitavely...and that we're living well. I would give anything to be living in a society like that right now...where I could go out and pick my food and know that it's so good for me, and didn't originate in some pesticide filled farm somewhere, but in God's forest with nutrient rich soil.
People think of this as "poor" and lower class. What a much higher class of living these people have. We should all be so lucky.
Just a thought...hope you don't mind.