Recycling this from a couple of years ag because...well, just 'cause.... Fruitarian: a person who eats only ripe fruit from mature plants so as to avoid any form of killing, including plants or their growth potential. Some especially strict fruitarians, or frugivores, adhere to the belief that only fruits which have already fallen from the parent plant can be eaten (seriously?) since it has never been proven conclusively that plants cannot feel, eating anything but fruit already fallen is not only killing, but actually painful to the plant. (you ARE kidding, right?) Obtaining the life essential nutrient of Vitamin B12 is especially problematic for strict fruitarians, as the only reliable non-animal source of B12 is yeast, a fungus. (Be careful with that knife, wouldn't want to get an infection. Bacteria needs love, too. Oh, wait, wouldn't use a knife on the vegetable anyway. Carry on.) (What's that? Oh. Don't eat vegetables 'cause it damages the plant? Ah. Hm.) which has lead some frugivores to abandon the practice of fruitarianism in favor of Inedia, or Breatharianism, the practice of sustaining life exclusively on water and sunshine. (”consider the lilies of the field, how they grow, they toil not, neither do they spin…” I thought photosynthesis required chlorophil. Green's not really my color.) Inedia was somewhat popular in the early 1990’s, however there remain very few surviving followers of this practice. (go figure) Persons interested in learning more of the practice of Inedia are encouraged to fill all their informational needs from the Breatharian Institute of America which hosts workshops and seminars at their HQ in southern Utah. (I wonder if they have refreshments during the intermissions) (Think of all the money you’d save on toilet paper, made by choppin’ trees, doncha know, and that’s gotta hurt.) Think your baggage makes more sense? Yeah, me too. It must have made sense when we picked it up. |