Ah SugarHoneyIceTea, color didn't work. Here it is again, colorless...
I finally have my first edition of NFL and a copy of Raw Eating by A.T.
Hovanessian in hand, and, as promised earlier, would like to post a few
snippets from each for everyone's amusement. Peter certainly wasn't kidding
when he said the plagiarism appeared to be extensive. Indeed, it is nearly
paragraph for paragraph in many chapters. Since it is so unbelievably easy
to find the matching paragraphs (mostly they are in order, blow by blow,
but there has been some rearranging) which were so blatently stolen, I may
post a periodic reminder of NFL's absolute lack of honesty, integrity, and
originality. Until they threaten to sue me--then I'll post them
SEMI-periodically ;)
ind below nearly all of NFL's Chapter 5, as it is ripped off from Raw
Eating. Don't worry--an NFL "chapter" is only six paragraphs in this case
;) And as a special bonus for plowing through that whoooooooole chapter
there awaits you my personal favorite (so far at least) in NFL plagiarism
at the end.
[THOSE ALL-CAPS WOULD BE LIL 'OL ME]
Hovanessian, paragraph one, page 13: Addiction to Cooked Food is the Most
Dangerous of All Vices
"The reader may naturally wonder why none of the numerous scientists and
professors sees these simply truths and why nobody tells us that eating
cooked foods is unnatural and dangerous. The reason is that the whole of
mankind are food addicts and food-addiction has blinded everybody. Nobody
realizes that cooked-eating is a vice and that it is indeed the most
terrible of all vices."
NFL page 15, Chapter 5: Cooked Food: A Physio-Chemical Addiction
"Addiction conquers science and takes it into its talons." --Aterhov
[A DIRECT QUOTE FROM "ATERHOV"!!! AS IF THE REST ISN'T "QUOTED" AS
WELL.)
"Many people naturally wonder why none of the numerous "learned" scientists
and philosophers understand these simple Truths and why nobody has yet told
humanity that eating cooked food is unnatural and dangerous. The reason is
that all of humanity is addicted to cooked food and that addiction has
blinded everybody. Nobody realizes that cooked-food eating is a vice. It
is, in fact the most terrible vice of all."
Hovanessian, page 13, still the first paragraph:
"It is not a craving after only one kind of substance but the sum total of
one's voracious longings for thousands of substances (and what
"marvellous", "desirable" substancs at that!). Besides, short-sighted
cooked-eaters see richness and excellence in the multiplicity of the
debasements to which foodstuffs are subjected, whereas it is the very
multiplicity of the dabasements that gives rise to the multiplicity of
harms, the true reflection of which can be seen in the large variety of
illnesses which prevail in the world today."
NFL page 15 Chapter 5, second paragraph of Chapter 5:
"Cooked-food addiction encompasses not just a craving for one type of
substance, but hundreds, even thousands, of substances. On top of this,
short-sighted cooked-eaters see richness and excellence in the mutiplicity
of debased foodstuffs. It is this very multiplicity of debasements that
gives rise to a multiplicity of harms. A true reflection of this can be
seen in the large variety of illnesses that prevail in the world
today--especially in the 'rich, developed' world." (NICE TOUCH, EH? SINCE
IRAN WAS NEITHER]
Hovanessian, page 13, second paragraph:
"Man becomes addicted to these substances that contain poisons such, as tea,
coffee, tobacco, alcohol, opium, cocaine, morphine, etc. The strong craving
for these substances is stimulated by corresponding poisons collected in
the human organism. Cooked foods produce a large variety of poisons which,
in the course of time, are stored in different parts of the organism, such
as on the walls of veins and capillaries, between the joints, in the center
of fat cells and elsewhere."
NFL page 15-16, 3rd and 4th paragraph of chapter 5:
"Human beings become addicted to substances that contain poisons, such as
tea, coffee, cooked marijuana, cooked tobacco, alcohol, cocaine, heroin,
etc. Addictions promote and defend themselves. [DOES THAT MAKE NFL AN
ADDICTION, I WONDER ;) AND IS RAW MARIJUANA AND RAW CHEWBACCO
OK BY NFL
THEN? ;)]
"The strong craving for these substances is stimulated by corresponding
poisons collected in the human organism. Cooked foods contain a large
variety of poisons which, in the course of time, are stored in different
parts of the body. They are deposited on the walls of veins and
capillaries, between the joints, in the center of fat cells, and elsewhere.
"
Hovanessian, page 13, still the second paragraph:
"Just as the craving of a drug addict for heroin does not arise from the
normal physiological needs of his body, so the desire of a cooked-food
eater for cooked food, his feeling of hunger, is not the normal demand of
his organism; rather it is the demand of his addiction. It is the
expression of impulses that are stimulted by the poisons collected in the
human organism; it is the demand of the diseases nestled in the body, the
call of man's worst enemy."
NFL, page 16, paragraph 5 of chapter 15:
"The crack addict's craving for rock cocaine does not arise from the normal
physiological needs of the organism; it is created by a physio-chemical
addiction. Similarly, the desire for cooked food, is not a physiological
need, but a physio-chemical addiction. It is the expression of impulses
that are stimulted by the poisons and malformed cells thriving in the
organism. It is the demand of the diseases nestled in the body, the call of
humanity's worst enemy." [LEST ANYONE CLAIM THEY ARE SEXIST, EH? ;)]
Hovanessian, page 13, third and final paragraph:
"That terrible vice is introduced into the body of every human being by his
own parents right from the cradle. That is why the moment the baby begins
to take notice and start talking, food-addiction has already secured a firm
hold on him and from that moment to the very end of his life he regards
cookd food as his normal diet and his strong craving for it as his
physiological demand; it is this that he mistakes for real hunger."
NFL, 16, sixth and final paragraph (except for the "cooked food is poison"
tag ;)):
"That terrible vice is introduced into the body of every human being by his
or her own mother when still an embryo via the umbilical cord and placenta.
Once the child is born the parents unwittingly continue this insane
process. Even before the child has learned to talk, cooked-food addiction
has already secured a physio-chemical hold on the organism. From that
moment to the end of s/he regards cooked food as normal and natural and the
craving for it s/he mistakes for hunger."
[HERE IS A BONUS PARAGRAPH FOR READING THIS FAR]
Hovanessian, page 108, third full paragraph:
"Perhaps some of my readers may not like my tone of writing. In their
opinion my expressions should preferably be more scientific (adorned with a
Latin terminology unintelligible to most people), more conciliatory
(complaisant), more serious (hypocritical), more compromising
(unscrupulous), more courteous (lying), and more tactful (cowardly). But I
prefer to be decisive, sincere and bold. And that is how I shall be, even
if I find the whole world against me. I am confident that I shall be
supported by all sensible people and vindicated by future generations."
NFL, page 178-9
"Perhaps some people do not like our tone of writing. In their opinion our
expressions should preferably be more scientific (adorned with Greek and
Latin terminology unintelligible to most people), more conciliatory
(milquetoast), more serious (hypocritical), more compromising
(unscrupulous), more courteous (filled with lies), and more tactful
(cowardly). We are driven by forces seeded in our blood. We are decisive
and bold. We are accurate and succinct. We hold nothing back and get right
to the point. That is how we shall be, even if we find the whole world
against us. We are confident that we shall be supported by all sensible
people and vindicated by future generations."
[ONCE AGAIN, MORE "SUCCINCTLY" IN CASE YOU MISSED IT THE FIRST
TIME:]
Hovanessian, page 108, third full paragraph, third sentence:
"But I prefer to be decisive, sincere and bold."
NFL, page 179, second full sentence:
"We are decisive and bold.
They are laughing stocks is more like it. A final chesnut before I call it a night:
NFL, from page 173 in the first edition (and from p.171 of the 2nd edition, I'm told):
"It may be said that Truth is the highest virtue, but we have found that
living truthfully is higher still."
Ouch! Could they be more serious (hypocritical)?
I looked around in Raw Eating to see which sentence of Hovanssian's they
might have lifted for this gem, but haven't come across it yet. Perhaps
this sentence is an original for the Milli Vanelli trio. I'm not sure which
would be funnier: if it was actually penned by our favorite plagiarists or
if it was plagiarized.
I'm also wondering why it took all three of these fellows to "write" their book.
Any ideas?
Cheers,
Kirt
PS-- Permission granted to anyone to repost this anywhere you'd care to.=
Oprah would love this stuff I'm sure...or is the cattlemen who would love=
it--I forget ;)
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