By: Uma Bhagwati Kaur

Uma Bhagwati Kaur — Thu, 24 Oct 2013 16:46:08 +0000

If you can't tell your child meat is murder/torture, what do you tell them? Also how do I post anonymously? I don't really care if this sites blogger knows my identity, but I would prefer randos not know my identity.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 15:34:43 +0000

Eeeeyuh. EST was definitely known for being cultish in the 70s & 80s – not even secretively so. A lot of what Erhardt taught has snuck into modern American corporate culture – the word "commitment" itself was his favorite word.
Having said all that, EST'ers didn't necessarily follow particular diets or have particular health convictions.
I was ovo-lacto veg before 3hO, remained lacto-veg for several years, until an ovo-lacto relative died at a young age of heart disease …. I had to reassess things, and began to lean more vegan at that time … did about four years of mostly macrobiotics, when another relative had cancer … now I lean vegan-ish most of the time (little dairy, little fish, little pasta, now and then) ….
There is a fine line to walk, I think, between the hysteria of PETA on the one hand (which, inasmuch as the orthodoxy about lacto-vegetarianism was practiced in 3hO, no one saw conflict between that and leather shoes, leather purses, leather kirpan sheaths, and real sheepskin rugs toted around all the time), and what is (in my mind, at least) the equivalent or louder "din" of the commercial advertising and dominance of people's consciousnesses of corporations like McDonald's and Domino's Pizza and Dunkin' Donuts…. having said all that … my personal belief is that the 3hO diet was overly dependent on starch, grease, and dairy products – and too skinny of really healthy vegetables and fruits and good protein sources (fried Indian 'milk biscuits' floating in a yogurt and ghee gravy over white rice just is not the health-giving recipe that it was cracked up to be).

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