Raw Food Society of British Columbia

My appreciation for live foods started in my Grandma's large garden on the prairies . My cousins and I were around four or five trying to fit 100 green peas in our mouths at a time. It was in those same rolling prairie hills that I developed a love for the Earth and gained my appreciation for organically grown and wild foods. I was 19 working at a health food store when this "strange" man turned down an offer for a discount on some oranges with soft spots, telling me that, "Those oranges don't have any life force left!" His comment started me on a path of discovery; learning that there is an unseen energy in living food and a life force that we get from them. My diet of mainly raw, living foods is an attempt to bring more of this life force/prana/chi (whatever you want to call it!) into my body and life.
I believe the combination of living foods and bodily movement arts such as yoga, dance and tai chi open up our merridians/nadis for this electrical charge to flow more.
My evolution toward a living plant diet also came from the realization that I had grown up eating dead animals for food and I wanted to live with less killing in the world.
This care for life and sustainability on Earth, along with many other influences has brought me to become a tool for Gorilla Food, a vegan, organic, raw food kitchen selling foods in downtown Vancouver.