This site is hardly representative of RVAF diets as a whole, being just a tiny sliver of the RVAF diet community worldwide. Most RVAFers generally only eat a small amount of raw animal foods(raw dairy and raw eggs being the most common RAF foods eaten). We just represent the meat-heavy camp.
My comments re most pro-cooked-food-advocates favouring unhealthy supermarket. grainfed meats mostly is pertinent as you are, somewhat hypocritically, accusing raw food dieters of often not caring about the quality of their raw foods, despite the fact that most raw foodists constantly harp on about the issue of grassfed meats, organic fruit etc. - DV is a rare exception to the usual pro-cooked-advocate but that's all.
Re adaptation:- You are quite clearly confused as to what adaptation actually implies. Genuine full adaptation requires the food to be easily digested without problems, without any side-effects at all. Cooked foods contain heat-created toxins which harm human health over time, and, so far, not one single study has shown that we either are immune to all heat-created toxins or that we need to consume any heat-created toxins for health reasons. Similiarly, giant pandas can eat and digest raw bamboo more or less, but, becasue they have a naturally carnivorous digestive system, they are still ill-adapted to digesting bamboo. As regards enzymes, the point is not that one needs enzymes to digest cooked foods, but that, because cooked foods contain no enzymes, the body is forced to produce far more enzymes from its own organs than necessary to digest the relevant cooked food, which leads to the wearing out of such organs, thus accelerating aging of such organs, and other long-term side-effects.
Also lactose-intolerance is only one tiny aspect of problems with dairy. Other issues include lactose inhibiting copper-intake, the skewed calcium:magnesium ratio of dairy causing magnesium-deficiency( I have come across people who were never lactose-intolerant who got magnesiul-deficiency as a result of consuming dairy). And then there's the hormonal issues, plus dairy has been linked to the incidence of conditions like schizophrenia etc.
Re Eskimoes:- I did NOT state that the Eslimoes were healthy, merely that, directly contrary to your claims, they survived quite well in a very harsh climate on a diet consisting of large amounts of raw meats, thus showing that cooked foods are not required in a harsh, Arctic environment.
Re "pox-infected blankets":- That notion re blankets may be correct:-
http://www.nativeweb.org/pages/legal/amherst/lord_jeff.htmlWhatever the case, smallpox-infected blankets were not used in other contacts between Europeans and native HGs in other countries, yet the HGs there also died like flies, very soon after contact, not just after decades of adopting "white-man"s food". As to the notion of infectious diseases not existing, that is not a RVAF diet belief, merely something that Aajonus primarily believes in - and even he states that such diseases came about as a result of eating cooked foods.
The fact that a minority of raw vegans never eat fruit is irrelevant - many RVAFers eat raw fruits without issues, and most raw vegans actually eat a diet very high in raw fruits. And the fact that a tiny number of fruitarians cook a tiny number of their fruits is meaningless - besides, even cooked-foodists usually eat their fruits raw, not cooked.
As for your claims re raw foods/cooked-foods:- I did NOT state that one can "get by" on raw foods, I made it very, very clear that raw foods are WAY superior to cooked foods. The only exceptions are unhealthy things like grains or other antinutrient-heavy plant foods which should not be eaten in either cooked or raw form. Calling raw foods "problematic" is moronic as that only applies to things like raw grains that virtually no one eats. Most fruits can be eaten raw without any issues, apart from a tiny number of (R)ZCers in a population, and some veg can be eaten raw without issues(ie all those without high antinutrient-levels). So, cutting out raw broccoli and such antinutrient-heavy veg is hardly a limited diet when there are raw meats, raw organ-meats, some raw veg, raw eggs, raw honey, some raw mushrooms and raw fruits available. Sure, cooking allows extra (poor-quality) foods to be made more edible, such as tubers, but why waste effort on pointless cooking when one can eat much higher-quality raw foods instead?
More to the point, given that 75 percent of the world's population suffer from lactose-intolerance and ALL cooked-food-eaters suffer from problems in old-age gained from decades of absorbing heat-created toxins from cooked foods(re arthritis etc.), it is ridiculous to suggest that cooked animal foods or raw dairy are superior to raw fruits when food-intolerance to raw fruits is correspondingly tiny by comparison.
A guru who doesn't sell something has no real vested interests, and will therefore be far less corruptible than a guru who makes lots of money from his followers and who will therefore always try to sell people the most expensive supplements available. Didn't someone mention DV selling really expensive crap such as deer antlers in a recent post? Whatever the case, DV took the easy route in order to gain more followers - it wouldn't surprise me if he only ate raw meats in public solely for shock value so as to generate media attention.
