Paleo Diet: Raw Paleo Diet and Lifestyle Forum
Raw Paleo Diet Forums => Off Topic => Topic started by: TylerDurden on February 15, 2010, 08:56:37 pm
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I did some checking of youtube videos and I'm a bit concerned about some videos of raw vegans/fruitarians stating that they are on a raw palaeo diet(at least some clearly never mention eating raw meats, just raw veg/fruit). Now, by their definition we were all fruitarians/vegans in the Palaeolithic era, but it's annoying that they're stealing the very term we use to describe our own RVAF diet.
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Who is "we", exactly?
The term "paleo" is used in some circles to mean meat-only or meat-mostly (like most of the folks here) while in other circles it means essentially "unprocessed" while in other circles still it means mostly fruits & veggies along with lean meats....and so on.
Depends on whether you're speaking to the guys at Caveman Diet, Paleo Diet, THE Paleo Diet, the Stone-Age Diet, the Hunter-Gatherer Diet, and so on. Lots of books - everyone with a slightly different definition.
While it's silly for fruitarians & vegans to co-opt a term when they already have MORE descriptive terms, it's not like there is a single definition of "paleo diet" to start with. Besides, I seriously doubt it will stick for them. Too many hardcore vegans who like to distinguish themselves from others by being more, not less, specific.