Fruitarians

Lol no, but you do actually present information, not like a lot of people who have commented for the sake of it.
Honestly, thank you, but I was looking for someone who might have been in my position before and good help me deal with what's going on in my head.

Obviously there aren't any fruitarians on this forum, or none willing to admit it or help new out on this, so I give up.

Thanks to the couple of people who did respond appropriately.
I'm disappointed how many people just want to post but not read anything that goes on before hand.

My input definitely wasn't scientific.

It could be that uncomfortable feeling like 'do I want to be alive if doctors could kill me when ever they want for my organs, just because they let me be born'...

buuuut still... personally I find the diet solely based on grain, very appealing.. suits my hermit interests.

I havn't personally met a fruitarian, though I wonder if they would walk on grass, or concrete. On grass they might squash something, on concrete... stuff was... definitely.. squashed.. haha.

Walk the path less traveled? even if you have to cut down more plants to do so.. it is a provocative concept in the least.


Good luck, and have fuuun.

See, I believe you mean well, but this response wasn't helpful or even coherent.
You seem to be entirely missing the point.

you know, if i had to choose between killing a random animal or a 400 year old tree, it would be the animal. If it was between the tree and a human, i would choose the tree.
Dont ask me to morally justify this, life is full of hypocrisy and contradiction.

Plants are no less important than animals. They just have different considerations.

I think some vegans have the belief that the more you feel pain/fear, the more consideration you should get, but i dont agree. Just because something cant feel pain doesnt mean it should be exploited or ruined at our will.
Plants arent food, they're just another organism living on earth doing their own thing.
......Well actually they ARE food, everything is food as long as it can be eaten. I guess what i'm saying is everything has it's own worth, and when you hurt one you hurt all.

The agricultural mindset of destroying forest so that only humans could use the land for their corn is the exact same mindset that led us to enslave animals on that land and shortly after, humans.

but anyone who is worried about walking on grass, that's seriously sick

I don't have any experience with fruitarianism, I expect that one of the main reasons you won't find people who have here is because of the age of the members.
However I imagine that incorporating some freeganism could serve as a stepping stone or an alternative to fruitarianism. Being a freegan could possibly eliminate (or partially-lift) any guilt you feel towards the plant if you use a "I'd rather it not be wasted" mentality.

I suggest you look into what sort of changes you'd end up having to make to fit your ethics, as to me, plants would seem much harder to rid from your life than meat was since they're involved in so many things from vitamins, medications to beauty/hygiene products like shampoo and conditioner. Then figure out where you feel comfortable drawing your line.

I can't really offer much advice other than that as I've never really thought of plants as you sound to be (well, not plants that provide food) so I'm sorry if I'm completely off-track for what you're looking for, good-luck figuring it out.

the point is...

your body isn't one life form, the only reason it exists and is living.. apart from history, is all of the mico organisms that make it up, and smaller life forms. and the larger that define or create the world.

when a plant 'dies', much life is consequently created.

this argument doesn't apply to animals, because we can relate to them with some emotional capacity of their suffering. hence the insects and ... energy created is not ever weighed in comparison to an animals life, as it is considered a whole being.

where as a plant... can be cut and... grafted... and grown from a stalk trimmed off into another whole specimen... pando the quaking aspen is said to be the largest life form on earth, it is a mass of aspen trees all interconnected via roots maybe stemming from one source.

thus... we cannot relate and so.. instead of your 'fruitiarian' query being even comprehensible.. it is .. unfortunately left as a philosophical dilemma or even an attitude or mental uncertainty.. (if you can't be bothered formulating it into something which can be scientifically investigated or resolved)

hence.. you need to find your own personal answer as it is your emotions which feel the particular.. unfathomable way they do to you.

incoherent.. maybe to someone not thinking about it the same way as me.. hence.. people.. think different ways.. sorry i can't write the answer you want.

if I was to do that... i'd either be lying or saying things I know nothing about.. lots of people can do that... I prefer to think about it.

may aswell just synthesis your own solution.


so no, I don't avoid eating something for some ideological allusive reason.. unless it is just 'I like this' ... 'I don't like that', for me that can be reason enough.. but i'm not going to ask someone.. "Why don't I like cooked tomatoes, what should I do?".. because... as I thought might be helpful to point out... there is nothing wrong with finding your own comfort zone, I do this by contemplating abstract concepts in relation to something.. you might do it differently.. but that is all I have to share. I thought a different response, might be equally as useful than having someone prescribe you what you are looking to hear. I have no idea what that might be, I just eat because I 'Have to'.   ~ -   ~

Again, I believe you mean well. I appreciate that you're trying a different tactic.

My question was supposed to be read as "Are you a fruitarian? If so, could you give me some advice?" I apologize if it was somehow misleading, I don't think it is, but so far no one has read it that way, so I must be the problem.

But I don't see how you telling me I need to make my own decision, my own journey or whatever even comes close to answering this question.
And it sounds like you even established that you couldn't help me, but have so far given me three long winded answers...

Is it hard to be fruitarian?

Clearly no one on this site has been one, so no one can actually answer you.

I don't think it would be hard once you got the hang of it.