How is a raw food lifestyle better for the environment?

Question

If you favor raw foods, please offer one of your favorite recipes.

Answer 1

I don't see how it could affect the environment either way. Maybe you don't expend energy heating your food?

Answer 2

Because deadly pathogens don't get killed in the cooking process; thus you die and your carbon footprint goes to zero.

Answer 3

Oh it would be wonderful....and tasty too.  Love those raw eggs, and raw hamburger meat.  Yummy.   Let's save the world!!!!

Answer 4

Though I am not a raw foodist, I think it is a great way of life, especially if you grow your own food. It is better for the environment because it cuts out all the energy needed for processing, packaging, and cooking (to an extent, I think to be considered raw, it can't be cooked any higher than about 116 degrees F). On a diet like this, you get the full potential and nutritional benefit of the food item and you eat no meat (if you do you are taking a big, reckless chance). Going on a tangent, meat is horrible for the environment considering all the land and water it takes to "grow" the animals, the emissions of methane from all those cows, the waste they create pollutes our oceans and water sources, the transporting all the animals to and from the slaughterhouses, the packaging, the cutting down of rainforest to grow soy just to feed chickens, I could go on....

Here's a bunch of websites about raw food that I found from Care2.com:

http://www.livingnutrition.com

http://www.doctorgraham.cc

http://www.rawfoodsupport.com

http://www.transformationinst.com/

http://www.healself.org/

http://www.thegardendiet.com

http://www.wholisticraw.com

http://www.takeafruitbreak.com

http://www.shazzie.com

http://www.rawlife.com

http://www.davidwolfe.com

http://www.purejoylivingfoods.com

http://www.roegallo.com

http://www.rawgourmet.com

http://www.livingnutrition.com

http://www.gardenofhealth.com

http://www.rawfamily.com

http://www.living-foods.com

http://www.rawfood.com

http://www.roxraw.com

Hope these help you!

good luck!