Interesting question - at least I think so.
i would typify myself as several things. I am a low carber that
eats both cooked and raw foods, primarily meats and low carb
veggies - although I do the occasional piece of fruit I avoid
grains, legumes and very starchy veggies [which is a pity, I
loved raw potatoes before I changed my diet ;-(]

i prefer a simpler lifestyle than many because as a military
dependant [note: NOT a pacifist per se - just into defense rather
than offense.] I prefer to simplify bcaus I don't want to assume
a debt-burden trying to get new cars, lots of appliances, lots of
trendy clothing that will go out of style and need replacing in a
year. I don't feel the need to 'keep up with the Jonses' and get
things I really don't need. I like living on enough land to grow
my own garden and keep some personal livestock. I find that the
taste difference and textures are entirely different from store
bought.

Having worked in the nuclear power industry I will confess to
having protested pro-nuclear power on a few occasions back when I
was still in high school, and am still a proponent of both
nuclear power and in developing power cells and interesting
alternative energy sources such as the spiffy organic digester to
produce methane that the peace corps was using in the 70s, and
inexpensive photo-voltaic solar cells being used by the DOT for
the signs and emergency call boxes. As to weapons - the genii is
out of the bottle and isn't likely to go back in, so they are
here to stay. They do serve a purpose in the military protection
of the US, and if used properly they are neither good nor evil.
The same goes for guns, they are tools, neither good nor evil. It
is the useage of them that is good or evil.

As one of these american foodie types, I can say that I think
that certain punitive measures against the Taliban and other
governments and private individuals giving aid and succor to
terrorists is a good thing. I do not think that bombing
Afghanistan is a particularly good idea, but it is what the
government has chosen and it is a done deal. I do not think that
we should put the Taliban out of power as it is not my country.
If economic pressures worked and we hadn't taken to bombing, I
would be much happier. If what it takes is sending in Spec Ops
groups to assassinate Bin Laden, and they can get the Joint
Houses to approve the constitutional amendment that would be even
better to my eyes - but they had better also go after any Irish,
French,  German, Italian and Japanese terrorists in the same
manner otherwise it is prejudicial and abrogating both the letter
and the spirit of the amendment.
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The Quote Starts Here:
> WHY do raw food types, organic simple-lifestyle, shun-materialism,
> types, those who would have been in demonstrations to protest against
> the WTO and globalization and now are in demonstrations to protest
> military action, African-American-blacks in dreadlocks and those
> colorful crocheted caps, and whites with natural hemp clothing flat
> shoes and no make-up, lesbian-feminists, good union activists, lefty
> poets and artists, and RAW FOODISTS  -   why is it that these people
> want to band together in the streets to say "We protest the military
> actions against Bin Ladens and those who shelter bin Laden?"