1) Some RVAFers claim that freezing damages the raw meat by 25% or so and that enzymes are harmed. Others claim that freezing gradually denatures enzymes over c.10 weeks of freezing. Others claim that freezing is harmless.
There are some basic facts:- freezing does create ice-crystals which disrupt the cell-membranes, which means that nutrient-loss occurs at a much faster rate once it is thawed. Also, thawed prefrozen meat tends to taste not as great as nonfrozen raw meats. Other than that, I would state that eating raw prefrozen meats is not the end of the world. Freezing does not, after all, create any toxins, whereas cooking definitely does. Bacteria in raw meats lie dormant, not destroyed, when the raw meat is frozen, so they are revived once the meat is thawed.
Also, there is the matter of convenience.Focusing too much on diet leads to dietary orthorexia, and some RVAFers needlessly get afflicted in that way.Besides, we RVAFers generally accept that a rawpalaeo diet only fixes some health-problems. There are many other aspects(mostly but not wholly to do with Palaeolithic-era concepts) such as exercise, posture etc., which also affect health.
If you want the best, you could always get a chill-room where you put your raw meats in every month. Such a room only cools the raw meat down to between 2 to 4 degrees Celsius, so that the meat is preserved without being frozen. That is what many grassfed-meat producers do, as chiling the meat very slowly ages the meat, thus tenderising it and improving the taste.However, it's not worth the bother, unless you own your own place/freezer etc., and have the cash.
To last long-term on a RVAF diet, is is better, imo, to have as much variety in your diet as possible. After all, the diet of our Palaeo ancestors was far more varied than nowadays, including things like insects, lizards etc. etc. Then again, we have people like Lex Rooker who have no problems eating just raw suet and pemmican on an endless unchanging basis.
Like you, I hate the taste and texture of raw suet, however grassfed. In addition, even suet from the highest quality source makes me have yellow liquid diarrhea soon after, which I take as a sign that my body does not like or need nutrients from raw suet. I far prefer other sources of raw fat such as raw tongue and raw marrow(from grassfed sources) or even raw brains(not everyone's cup of tea) or raw fat from leg of lamb. Other than raw grassfed lamb fat, I rather loathe white fat next to muscle-meat and prefer it sort of hidden/submerged such as in raw swordfish etc.
One caveat:- many raw zero-carbers have found, in the long-term, that a 100% RZC diet is difficult to stick to on a permanent basis. In my own, case I really thrive for the 1st 3 weeks or so of going RZC(getting increased concentration/alertness etc.), but then swiftly deteriorate healthwise soon after that point. That said, you may well do fine on it, who knows? Everyone is different. What works for one RVAFer does not necessarily apply to another.
3) RVAFers generally avoid vegetables, whether raw or cooked. Vegetables, even raw ones, usually include lots of antinutrients in them. That is why some RVAFers who overdo their raw-veggie-juice-consumption(more than 1 litre a day) end up with nutritional deficiencies.My general rule is that, since antinutrients are designed to make the plant more difficult to digest and less tasty to plant-eating animals, that I should avoid any raw vegetables which don't taste great to me. Cooking does reduce the levels of antinutrients in raw vegetables BUT cooking also creates additional heat-derived toxins such as advanced glycation end products among many others, so is not an option.
I find that fully soaking raw nuts in water for 24 hours before consumption reduces the levels of antinutrients, making digestion of said nuts much easier if I eat a lot of them at one time. Incidentally, if you are looking for alternative raw carbs to fruit, consider sundried raw bee pollen(in small amounts per day!) or raw honeycomb(heather, imo, is the best flavour).
