There is a movement within the raw vegan movement away from vegan and also sometimes away from raw. You have asked me what I think about it, so here goes...

The raw vegan diet isn't easy for everyone to stick to in the long term. Some people are coming to realise that for whatever reason, it didn't work well for them. And that's fine, the universe does allow U-turns and life is just a beautiful journey. I think above all, what we're really seeing is a shedload of honesty, and I really appreciate that. I much prefer it when people are honest about what they do, especially if they have a "following". I can't bear it when people say "raw chocolate is poison" and then are seen eating chocolate cake in public. That doesn't sit well with me.

Where am I at?

In my 2008 book Evie's Kitchen, I wrote about the issues surrounding a vegan diet, so if you've read that, you'll know that I don't sit on the puritanical vegan side of the fence. I don't believe it's possible to raise a child on a vegan unsupplemented (non-fortified) diet and yet for personal reasons I want myself and my daughter to eschew animal products as much as possible. This is where I am right now:

I am still vegan (about 25 years now, but really can't remember).
I'm still mostly raw (about 95-98%).
I still have the odd glass of champagne or wine.
Sometimes it's not so odd, sometimes it's not there at all.
I still have superfoods with everything I eat at home.
Much of my food is in liquid form.
I still go heavy on medicinal plants.
I partake in a lot of other healing modalities such as reiki, affirmations, kambo, ayahuasca and iboga because food isn't our only medicine.
I still supplement B12, bone formula, vegan DHA, MSM and a few other things.
I still feel healthy, but document when I'm not because I know you also value honesty (such as when I got a frozen shoulder).
I feel really really satisfied with my diet.
However, I have felt very disconnected to the "vegans only need to supplement with B12" party line, because it's just not true. If you could see the emails and letters I get from mums who tried that diet with their children (high fruit / low fruit / high fat / low fat and all combinations in between) and their children didn't thrive, you would feel heartbroken. And you would speak up, too.

So in the name of honesty, I want to tell you what I did a couple of years ago which may shock you. I ate some raw sheep cheese. Gosh, it was WEIRD, after twenty odd years without it. I did it really consciously, and it was a teeny tiny amount (about a 1cm cube). It took me about 30 minutes to get it in my mouth. It felt odd, unnatural, and not something my mind wanted to do. But I repeated it three times on three different days, because I wanted to know if my body wanted it.

It didn't feel at all right to me, but I was glad I tried it, because after so long, I wondered if I was just being a vegan for the sake of it. Afterwards, I kind of felt remarried to veganism. I was glad, because I really really like being a vegan. BUT a vegan who supplements properly and continually evaluates her diet.
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