If you want to get technical, you could say that the raw diet started long ago when man ate mainly uncooked plant foods he could gather.
"Contrary
to popular belief, humans began to cook their food only recently.
For the great mass of people throughout the ages cooking fuel and
animal flesh have been onerously expensive luxuries. So the
contemporary raw food movement has a venerable history.
In
the first place, evidence of the first use of fire by humans—which
is likelier to have been used for tool-making than for cooking—has
been dated to 400,000 BCE. That may seem like a long time ago, but
in the evolutionary scheme of things, it’s quite
recent.
According
to Professor John Walker, a professor of anthropology at Johns
Hopkins University, the earliest hominids judging from the
micro-wear on their teeth were frugivores (an animal or human who
takes its nourishment primarily from fruit, nuts and seeds). Our
nearest primate relatives, the bonobos (pygmy chimpanzees) with whom
we share 99 percent of our DNA, are frugivores." Rynn Berry is the Historical Advisor to the North American
Vegetarian Society, and is completing a book on the history of raw
foodism, called Fruits of Tantalus: A History of Vegan Rawfoodism,
to be published in 2004.
Please let us know if we are missing anyone or if there are better/more pictures or other information that we could be including for any of those already listed!
Promonent Vegetarians/Vegans/Raw
Foodists of the
1700s & 1800s:
Dr. James Caleb Jackson (1814-1895)
Mrs. Ellen Gould White (1827-1915)
Dr. John Harvey Kellogg
(1852-1943)
Pioneers of the Modern Raw Foods Movement:
Dr. Edward Howell 1898T. C. Fry 1892-1996
Adamites
Arnold
Ehret
Benedict
Lust
Bill
Pester
Charles Kettering (donated money
for study of chlorophyll)
Dr. Carl
Schultz
Dr. Earp Thomas
Dr. Herbert Shelton
1985
Dr. Ventrano
Edmund Bordeaux Szekely (Biogenic Society The Essene Gospel
of Peace)
Fr. Bernardino Grauslys
Gordon
Kennedy
Harvey & Marilyn
Diamond
H.E. Kirschner
Hermann
Sexauer
Jay Kordich
John H. Tobe (book 1973)
John Tildon (book 1926 Toxemia
Explained)
Rev. Geroge Malkmus
Vera
and John Richter (Eutropheon)
Other Current Greats In The Raw
Food Movement:
Dr. Gabriel Cousens
Aris La Tham
Cherie Soria
David Wolfe
Dr. Tim Trader
Dr. Douglas Graham
Roz Gruben
Raw Family (Victori, Igor, Sergie, Valya)
Paul Nison
John Kohler
Karen Knowler
Dr. Fred
Bisci
Dr. Jamey Dina
Dr. Kim Sproul
Jameth Sheridan (Healthforcenet)
Juliano
Rhio
Chad Sarno
Dr. Ruza Bogdanovich
Ann Wigmore Institute Puerto Rico
Stephen Arlin
Dan Laderman
Victoria
Jayne
Mike White
Steve Meyerowitz
Woody Harrelson
Brian Clements
Harvey Diamond
Elizabeth Baker (book 1996)
