veganism: I'm a vegan. And I think that people have the ultimate descision on what they eat, but why would someone choose fruitarianism over veganism? I mean veganism is 100% animal-free, so why would people want to just eat fruit, nuts, and seeds? Is it one of the healthiest diets or something?|||Unfortunately, eating only fruits is lacking a lot of essential vitamins, so being a vegan is good enough. Some say they don't want the vegetables to suffer pain while being grown and pulled out. Fruits are grown from plants so it's basically the same. In the food chain, living things suffer pain. To answer your question, it is less healthy as you can still get carbohydrates easier as a vegan than as a fruititarian. I hope I helped, I recommend staying with veganism.|||not true. fruits have everything u need. but u will probably experience major detox symptoms. ride them out. ur on ur way to amazing health and regeneration. read Arnold Ehret rational fasting, it's free on google books Report Abuse |||because they believe that taking the leafs hurts the plants (& taking the roots kills the plants), but the fruit was designed to fall of the plant & spread the seeds. i know some very healthy fruitarians ( see link below). richard blackman in particular is a fruitarian fitness coach. fruitarianism is a sub branch of raw foodism which recognises that cooking food kills the living enzymes in the fruits & vegetables.|||Most of the people that follow a frugivore diet long-term do so for spiritual reasons. Some Buddhist sects, for instance, believe that to take any form of life is morally incorrect, so the only moral method of subsistence is to consume only fruit that has already fallen. There are some people that also believe it's a pure diet free of toxins, but I think we all know only eating fruit, nuts and seeds is a bad idea, health-wise.|||Veganism allows for the eating of cooked foods, fruitarianism lends itself more to raw foodism. Raw foodists believe that the enzymes of food are destroyed if heated so eat only raw or dehydrated foods. From my experience, fruitarians are not only seeking vegan food, but raw food also. There is much information on the net about raw food, search for Victoria Boutenko, David Wolfe and Kevin Gianni.|||Fruitarians usually avoid vegetables because harvesting vegetables kills the plant. Harvesting fruits doesn't kill the plant. They also avoid cooked foods because heating food kills many healthy nutrients. Others are striving for the diet of Adam and Eve. Have you ever heard the quote "And God said, 鈥淏ehold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit. You shall have them for food."? Every seed-bearing plant is fruit. So many fruitarians believe that is what they should be eating.|||Because they are concerned about hurting plants. :3|||tastes better