Mr. Nature Love, born Darrell Lamont Hubbard, was my original raw food mentor. I was thinking about Nature today while doing an interview for rawguru.com
Check out this excerpt from an interview that Jain Spirit did with Nature Love earlier this year on how he become vegetarian:
Q:One of the pivotal points of your life was when you became vegetarian. Could you tell us more about how that happened? Is it true that in your early teens you started having dreams about being a vegetarian?
A: Yes. When I was thirteen years old I started having dreams about just eating fruits and vegetables. They would just happen over and over again. It was really weird for me because I had never even heard of the word vegetarian. I didn’t even know anyone that didn’t eat meat. After my dreams I would wake up in the middle of the night and go look in the mirror and just look at myself for a few minutes. Looking back on it, what I feel my soul was doing was contemplating its identity and saying that this is what I want to be. I eventually went to a dictionary and looked up what a vegetarian was and it said it was someone who didn’t eat meat, fish, dairy or eggs. So I said, “Yeah, this is what I want to be.” I pretty much ate any vegetables and fruits I could get my hands on. My mom would just by an extra bag of carrots or apples and I would eat that for an entire meal.
Q:How did your friends and family feel about you becoming a vegetarian at such a young age?
A:Early on my parents didn’t approve at all, but only because they didn’t think it was healthy. They even took me to a doctor, Dr. Kadoka, and they wanted him to tell me to eat some type of meat. He told me that it was good and all right to eat chicken and fish, but looking back on it now, because he was Indian, he was probably a vegetarian himself. That always made me laugh.
As for my friends in school, I use to get teased and laughed at. Sometimes in the cafeteria I would bring out an entire plate of vegetables and everyone would just look at me and burst out laughing. After that happening a few times, and the continuous questioning, I stopped eating in front of people. I trained myself to eat only when I got home. After a while people got use to the fact that I was just different, but they got over it when I did. As my inner journey began at a young age, I became comfortable with myself and others did to.
Check out this excerpt from an interview that Jain Spirit did with Nature Love earlier this year on how he become vegetarian:
Q:One of the pivotal points of your life was when you became vegetarian. Could you tell us more about how that happened? Is it true that in your early teens you started having dreams about being a vegetarian?
A: Yes. When I was thirteen years old I started having dreams about just eating fruits and vegetables. They would just happen over and over again. It was really weird for me because I had never even heard of the word vegetarian. I didn’t even know anyone that didn’t eat meat. After my dreams I would wake up in the middle of the night and go look in the mirror and just look at myself for a few minutes. Looking back on it, what I feel my soul was doing was contemplating its identity and saying that this is what I want to be. I eventually went to a dictionary and looked up what a vegetarian was and it said it was someone who didn’t eat meat, fish, dairy or eggs. So I said, “Yeah, this is what I want to be.” I pretty much ate any vegetables and fruits I could get my hands on. My mom would just by an extra bag of carrots or apples and I would eat that for an entire meal.
Q:How did your friends and family feel about you becoming a vegetarian at such a young age?
A:Early on my parents didn’t approve at all, but only because they didn’t think it was healthy. They even took me to a doctor, Dr. Kadoka, and they wanted him to tell me to eat some type of meat. He told me that it was good and all right to eat chicken and fish, but looking back on it now, because he was Indian, he was probably a vegetarian himself. That always made me laugh.
As for my friends in school, I use to get teased and laughed at. Sometimes in the cafeteria I would bring out an entire plate of vegetables and everyone would just look at me and burst out laughing. After that happening a few times, and the continuous questioning, I stopped eating in front of people. I trained myself to eat only when I got home. After a while people got use to the fact that I was just different, but they got over it when I did. As my inner journey began at a young age, I became comfortable with myself and others did to.