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1,500 farmers commit mass suicide in India
The Belfast Telegraph
Wednesday, 15 April 2009
Over 1,500 farmers in an Indian state committed suicide after being driven to debt by crop failure, it was reported today.
The agricultural state of Chatt...
how did this taste compared to the traditional one? looks promising hehe.
Thanks - I'm downloading it now.
Yes, it is indeed scary and out people are brain-dead on this subject.
I have started growing my own food last year. This year I decided to add strawberries. It is very difficult to find organic strawberry crowns. I had to resort to sources that ...
An amazing documentary on the dangers of the new industrial food system being led by Monsanto.
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New Documentary on Dangers of Industrial GM food
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As I learn more and more about the food system in the United States, the more I become afraid of it. Doing research for a paper recently, I found out that about 70% of all packaged foods sold in Am...
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- About Me:
I've been studing Computer Science in UC San Diego for the last two years, and I'll be graduating in 2010. I became a raw foodist in June of 06 after spending two weeks traveling through Europe. I was with a tour group, which forced me to eat lots of meats and white breads. Needless to say, by the end of the trip I felt horrible. When I got back home, I decided to try a raw food diet after having heard about it from several people at the local farmers market. After just about a week I could feel some dramatic changes in my body, and have stuck with it ever since.
Experiencing the effects of a raw food diet (a diet which was condemned by my physician), I began to question many of the ideas and ideals I had been taught in school, and found myself learning more about myself and the world than I ever imagined. Soon I found myself trying all sorts of new things.
For the last two years I've been practicing yoga, and attended a two week intensive course at an ashram in India during the summer of 08. Yoga has taught me as much about my body as becoming a raw foodist. Its one of the practices in my life that I enjoy the most and I really recommend it for anyone who's interested. I’ve also just started producing a series of videos and posts on pranayama (one of the eight limbs of Patanjali’s Ashtanga Yoga). You can check them out here and here. Or head over to the Roshi’s YouTube page.
I've also gotten really into rock climbing. There are several place to climb near UCSD and you'll usually find me at one of them each weekend with at least one of my roommates. We all got into it together and after a year we still can't get enough. You can check out some pictures of our adventures here.
Lastly, as an effort to spread some of the knowledge I've learned across my campus, I joined the UCSD Food Co-op. We're a homely little store smack dab in the center of the UCSD campus serving all vegetarian, vegan, and mostly organic food. We've got the greatest salad bar you could imagine, for the awesome price of just $5/lb. If you're ever in town come by, and ask for me. I usually whip up some raw food goodies to sell in the store, so be sure to pick something up if you're there.
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corporate food: the dangers of GM
As I learn more and more about the food system in the United States, the more I become afraid of it. Doing research for a paper recently, I found out that about 70% of all packaged foods sold in America have at least some genetically engineered components. For those of you unfamiliar with GM (genetically [...]Mahatma Gandhi on Diet and Health
Most people know Gandhi as the leading Indian freedom fighter and the man responsible for securing Indian independence. However, Gandhi was also a prolific writer and thinker. He expressed his views in many fields. One of Gandhi’s favorite subjects was diet and nutrition. Throughout his lifetime he experimented with a variety of diets. He tried meat-eating, [...]how to make sauerkraut
One of the ways that I keep my diet balanced is by eating a portion of fermented foods daily. Most traditional cultures include some fermented foods in their diets, because of their contribution to a healthy body and their extremely long shelf life. Dishes and drinks, such as sauerkraut, kimchi, kombucha, cheese, kefir, and pickles, [...]chai cookie cakes and… chai!
With it being the dead of winter and all, I’ve been doing my best to stay warm during the cloudy rainy days. This can be especially difficult if your diet consists of mostly raw foods, so its good to supplement with foods and spices that having a warming tendency for the body. The three C’s [...]relaunching of roshi’s online store
Our first launch of the Roshi’s Online Store was pretty sub-par, since we only had one item. After lots of work, however, we’ve been able to get some good contacts and sources to relaunch our online store with lots of goodies. You’ll now see in our side bar a list of items being sold in [...]Rishi Kumar's Videos
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New Documentary on Corporate food and the Dangers of GM
As I learn more and more about the food system in the United States, the more I become afraid of it. Doing research for a paper recently, I found out that about 70% of all packaged foods sold in America have at least some genetically engineered components. For those of you unfamiliar with GM (genetically modified) crops, they are crops that have been altered at the DNA level to have some “desirable” trait. These crops have been banned in several countries such as Japan, Norway, Germany, and Spai… Continue
Posted on April 14, 2009 at 9:00pm — 1 Comment
Relaunching of Roshi's Online Store
Our first launch of the Roshi’s Online Store was pretty sub-par, since we only had one item. After lots of work, however, we’ve been able to get some good contacts and sources to relaunch our store with lots of goodies. You’ll now see in our sidebar (on our website) a list of a few of the items being sold in our store. We have lots of spice… Continue
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Comment Wall (69 comments)
- At 3:20am on July 3, 2009,
Justin said… - Hi Rishi! Hope you are well. :)
- At 2:32pm on May 22, 2009,
Reena Kumar said… - Hey there! I adore your website. I never thought I could have the chance to eat Indian food raw. I really look forward to trying out some of your recipes... this is so exciting! :-)
- At 8:02am on March 11, 2009,
Mukesh said… - Happy Holi, bro!
- At 12:18am on March 11, 2009,
Figseed said… - Thank you.
I believe my friends are also afraid of the fact that not every place will offer them
good care and are trying to get more opinions.
I think one of the options they are considering is swami Ramdev's Patanjali center:
http://www.divyayoga.com/main.htm
But, yes, they don't know anyone who has treated themselves there.
- At 10:26pm on March 6, 2009, Figseed said…
- Hi Rishi,
how have you been?
Just a thought...I was wondering whether you would be able to advise.
I have my friends whose mother wants to go to India for medical treatment,
but they don't really know who to approach there or where to go.
May be you would know a good place where they can provide a good holistic treatment. They are also from India, but it has been many years since they lived there...
- At 2:13am on February 4, 2009, Figseed said…
- I am glad you are defending those who eat meat, otherwise we wouldn't be having such a wonderful conversation.
It is very hard to write on the topics we are trying to touch, without leaving a lot of misunderstanding behind.
I don't believe in one path being more right than another too, but I do choose to defend the animals and not those who eat them :-)
We are free to chose what is right for us and I am no one to judge the choices we make.
I was only trying to say, that what we choose for ourselves, creates our realities.
- At 1:06am on February 4, 2009,
arpan said… - rishi,
it's a nice conversation. i only wish that it was spoken and not typed!
- At 12:35am on February 4, 2009,
Unity Love said… - Hi Rishi,
Looking forward to connecting around Yoga, Spirituality and trying some of your Indian style Raw Recipes!!! I am interested in merging Ayurveda with Raw somehow. Have you any thoughts on this?
Aum Namah Shivayah,
~Unity.
- At 11:16pm on February 2, 2009, Figseed said…
- I always thought that the Vedas are not a religion, they are about spirituality and resource from spirituality itself.
This is what makes them different from the rest of the religious books, like the Bible, Koran...the message in them unites on the basis of spirituality, you don't need a medium between yourself and God, you can directly connect to God (the cosmic Spirit, the Goddess, nature, whatever you like to call it) through meditation, for example.
- At 1:14pm on February 2, 2009, Mukesh said…
- So I was one among blissed to taste the kulfis Figseed made. So delicious! Well my taste buds thank both of you :).
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