"Society has always had its visionaries that talked of love, beauty and peace. - But somehow the "practical" men have always been there to praise the smog as a sign of progress, to preach just wars, to restrict love while giving reign to hate. it must be one of the greatest ironies of history, that today the only solutions for the "practical" men, lie in what they think of as the dreams of the idealists. The question now is; Can the realists be persuaded to face reality in time?"

There has been much debate about the precise definition of "Fruitarianism". How much fruit must one eat to be classified a Fruitarian? Must one eat only fruit? What exactly is a fruit anyhows?

On closer analysis you will find that those claiming fruitarianism often follow completely different sets of rules…

One simple broad definition of fruit, is basically whatever botanically contains the seed of the plant. For example, there is generally absolutely no uncertainty that tomatoes are clearly fruits. As are apples, oranges, cucumbers, egg plant (aubergine), pumpkin, zucchini and chilly peppers..

Nuts are generally included too as the difference between nuts and fruits is botanically minimal.. – The distinction being that fruit is the flesh around the seed, whereas nuts are the edible seeds themselves..

One might even therefore stretch the term to include sesame seeds, wheat grains and sunflower seed. Indeed, I recall that some years ago, a couple of my dear friends went out to Ireland to visit a self proclaimed fruitarian living there.. She welcomed them and offered them a meal of toast, jam and peanut butter!! Stretching the term to its utmost I suppose there is some truth in her definition. After all, her bread may have consisted of just wheat and water, and her jam may have been 100% fruit, and one can easily be forgiven for thinking that peanuts are the seeds of a plant.. (strictly speaking this is not true – they are more like potatoes, - tubers growing under the ground, attached to the roots of the plant).

This is however, one extreme of the word to which I will not be referring..

Although it's not really implied in the term "fruitarian" itself, for most that practice it, the fruit is generally eaten in its raw ripe natural state. and not pulverized and cooked first..

For many also, the term is not 100% strict, but just implies a raw vegan diet, consisting of predominantly fruit.. How much "predominantly" means is a subject of eternal debate.

Personally, I would estimate my current diet to be about 95% fruit. I have 2 exceptions. Firstly I often drink freshly pressed sugar cane juice, and 2ndly I occasionally might drink and eat a soft jelly coconut.. Otherwise I eat no other nuts or dried fruits, and my diet consists of basically papayas, bananas, mangos and rambutan.. Durian, chempadek and mangosteen are all time favourites, but currently out of season here (Southern Thailand)..

This has basically been my diet for the last 9 months or so.. I've been into the raw food thing for about 9 years, but have admittedly binged on numerous occasions throughout this period. With an especial partial to baked potatoes.. However, there have been several periods during this time when I have eaten 100% tree fruits, no nuts, for weeks and months at a time.. It has become increasingly easier, and the cravings have taken their time, but diminished slowly and steadily..

You might question, why take the raw food thing even further, but once you've gotten there you'll understand why.. Fruit becomes increasingly more appealing.. Currently, greens and root vegetables hold no appeal for me.

It has by no means always been so, but my appetite and overall desire for food is currently very low. I probably weigh in at about 58 to 60 kgs, which is just about 2 kgs less than my average 10 years ago, but otherwise has been steady for some years now. Healthwise I feel ok. - I'm certainly no Sylvester Schwarzenegger, but I have strength and energy enough to do what I need to do, and feel no desire to otherwise pad my biceps with mucus.. I probably sleep way over the average, but this is nothing new in my life, and apart from 10 strange days in Devon some years ago, it's always been that way.

Fruit is the one food that is offered to us "free of charge" in the karmic sense. There is no taking of life, instead the fruit is offered as part of a symbiotic pact between plant, animal and the earth. The plant remains intact and benefits from the interaction. - It gets to reproduce itself. What bliss, what joy! Not only does it get to reproduce through the sowing of it's seed, but also the more delicious the fruit, the more chance that we will nurture that seed and, feed, water and care for it, until and after it brings to bare it's own fruit.

Eating fruit only, gives those screaming little carrots the benefit of the doubt, and lets them fulfill their birth rights by living out their lives to their natural conclusions, where they become warty, old, wrinkled and crinkly, and sow their seeds to the wind as nature intended.

Be Cute.. Eat fruit.. Live long, and Prosper...