You Are What You Don't Eat

Ten ways to label you and your food.

When eating well becomes an obsession: Slashfood and UK newspaper The Guardian take a look at orthorexia, a burgeoning form of OCD.

wheres it at yo. i want jackfruit rambutans mamones star fruit durian young coconut. fruitarian for the week. ?

Keziah: No thanks, I’m a fruitarian. Max: I didn’t realize that. William: And, ahm: what exactly is a fruitarian? Keziah: We believe that fruits and vegetables have feeling so we think cooking is cruel. We only eat...

Ah yes, the classic fruitarian point of view. I go off of two pithy arguments... If God didn’t want us to eat animals, he wouldn’t have made them out of meat, or made them taste so good. And my ancestors didn’t...

Cat’s ears are noodles. Pig’s ears are cartilaginous bits of swinebody, cleaned, cooked and served. Elephant’s ears are pastries, aka palmiers. ears of corn and wheat I leave to the fruitarians.

Probably the better analogy would be vegan Hindus or Buddhists, or fruitarian Jainists. While I agree in that sense with your point, society accords different deference to dietary preferences based on observation of requirements...

, etc. I even know some fruitarians: people who only eat foods that can be harvested without killing the plant (never mind that most food plants are annuals that die anyway and the vast majority of seeds produced by plants never...

examples are a fruitarian and a raw foodist. your last example is a nice friend who doesn’t get sanctimonious about her food. nice that she was so appreciative of your gesture. :)

What’s beyond vegan is "fruitarians" — people who only eat things that can be harvested without killing the plant, like fruit, nuts and some grains. I’m not sure if or how people manage to actually do this, but...

to subsist on a diet of wormy peaches. Also that fruitarians are nutty (I actually knew this already). Then I wandered over to the humor section and got sidetracked thinking about how much the views satirized here:...

Many hounds are vegans, vegetarians (some, perhaps, are fruitarians), etc. Many went through a “phase” of the same before returning to full or partial omnivore status (and may yet have more “phases” to...

I don’t want to turn this into a TFL thread but they are extremely accommodating there. They will make the veg tasting menu vegan if you ask beforehand (I would suspect they could make it fruitarian if you asked nicely) ,...