Eco-Raw is personal project, the aim of which is to integrate the raw food diet within the wider realm of wholistic ethics, and show how it relates to environmental sustainability, social responsibility and fairness, personal health and development, and compassionate ethics. All of these areas are seen as aspects of a single consistent wholistic ethos.

The project gathers together, shares and explores information, thoughts, ideas, news and events which are related to the eco-raw ethos.

Eco-raw explores the current highest thinking in each area and brings them together within the context of an encompassing framework of principles.

The core values of the project are based upon wholistic ethics, and the interconnectedness of the universe. They include taking responsibility for your own actions and how your lifestyle decisions affect you, and how they affect others, and ultimately the Earth on which we all depend, either directly or indirectly. Core principles are taken from vegan ethics (ultimate compassion), raw vegan nutrition (highest personal health, global sustainability and efficiency), permaculture (practical tools for sustainable organisation).

As well as promoting the adoption of a sustainable wholistic culture by bringing together ideas from areas such as environmentalism, animal rights, human ecology, the hope is that the project will take raw-foodism beyond being just a diet system and stimulate raw-fooders to develop their ethical standards beyond the self and reach the whole.

Why focus on diet? For the simple reason that this is the single most important factor in living sustainably. What we eat directly affects both our health and our enviroment, which in turn affects our health and that of others. What we eat also reflects our cultural outlook on the world and it affects our behaviour.

While looking to raw foods for the personal health benefits, many raw foodists soon discover the connectedness of many health and environmental issues and so start looking beyond just what they are eating, and start questioning many other aspects of society. The selling of unhealthy food for profit not nutrition, the treatment of animals, the exploitation and destruction of natural resources for short term profit, the exploitation and oppression of our fellow humans. The first thing raw fooders realise is that most things they were ever told are not true, or not quite true, and from then on they question everything they are told, and think more deeply about their own and societies' actions.