Why is it all these raw foodists believe that sunlight is not harmful to the skin ? o.O
As a cynic, I'd say it has to do with the fact that "naturalness" is a part of the raw-foodist memeplex. A person who believes that eating unprocessed ("natural") foods is good is vastly more likely to believe that being "naturally" in the sun must be good as well.
Nikolas Lloyd said it eloquently: "The equating of
natural with
good is a mistaken one. There was a time, when few people lived to see old age, and when people celebrated Man’s gradual triumph over the savage natural world. Nature was red in tooth and claw, and life for most was nasty brutish and short. Today, pampered middle-class idiots who have never known which years were bad for crops, let alone feared a bad harvest, have the ludicrous luxury of associating nature with goodness. To them, earthquakes and cuckoos, vipers and vampires are all good, because they are natural. Presumably unnatural things like schools, vaccinations, police forces, and photography must all be bad because they are unnatural."
Apparently Mr. Haeske is selling his lifestyle. In this light, the sun-enthusiasm could also be a marketing trick.
(Disclaimer: I'm not criticizing the raw-food diet, which has its merits, but only the ridiculous and dangerous claims about the healthiness of excess sun.)
Edited by miklu, 29 October 2009 - 11:03 AM.