About RawMeaters
We stopped cooking our food. This is why.
RawMeaters is a community for people who eat animal foods the way they come: raw meat, raw fat, raw milk, raw eggs, and unheated honey. Ordering your beef raw still gets you strange looks almost everywhere, so we built the place we wished existed.
Why we started
It usually starts the same way. You read about Aajonus, or watch someone eat a raw steak and feel great, and you get curious. Then you try to learn more and hit a wall: scattered forums, half-archived Q&As, and a lot of people telling you you're crazy.
At the dinner table it gets lonelier. Family worries, friends joke, and you end up eating your tartare quietly so nobody asks questions. Most raw eaters learned by trial and error, alone.
RawMeaters was started to fix exactly that. One place to find people who eat like you, swap recipes that actually work, learn which butcher and which farm to trust, and ask the beginner questions without being judged.
We're just getting started, and the community will be shaped by the people who join early. If you've been eating raw on your own, you don't have to anymore.
What we believe
Our philosophy.
Built on the Primal Diet, sharpened by what our members have learned at the table. Not a rulebook, a starting point.
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Raw, not cooked
Heat changes food. It alters proteins, fats, and enzymes. We eat animal foods the way people did for most of history, before there was a stove in every kitchen.
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Animal foods are the foundation
Meat, fat, organs, fish, eggs, and raw dairy do the heavy lifting. They're the most nutrient-dense foods on earth, and they come first on our plate.
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Fat is the fuel
Raw butter, cream, marrow, and suet aren't side dishes. Following the Primal Diet, raw fat goes with every meat meal, and lots of it.
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Fruit is welcome
Ripe, whole, seasonal fruit and wild honey are the original sweets. We don't fear fruit. We eat it whole, with fat, and skip the refined sugar instead.
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Nose to tail
Liver, heart, marrow, oysters. Organs are where the deepest nutrition lives. Start small, and make them a habit.
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Source is everything
Pastured animals, unwashed eggs, raw milk straight from the farm, honey that's never been heated. When you eat raw, the quality of the source is the whole game.
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Eat often, eat well
This is not a fast or a cleanse. Aajonus taught eating raw protein and fat regularly through the day, and never going hungry.
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Your body, your choice
We don't preach and we don't judge. Fully primal, part-time raw, or just curious about tartare, you're welcome here. You decide what goes on your plate.
On fruit
Meat first. Fruit welcome.
Strict raw eaters often treat fruit as the enemy. We don't. Humans have always hunted meat and gathered sweet foods. Today the Hadza of Tanzania, one of the last hunter-gatherer peoples, eat meat, honey, berries, and baobab fruit through the seasons, with honey alone often making up somewhere between a tenth and a fifth of their calories.
Even Aajonus, who kept sugar low, used fruit with purpose: tomatoes and cucumbers freely, dates with butter, papaya and pineapple next to eggs and meat, and fruit blended into raw-egg smoothies. His one rule was to always eat fruit with fat.
Today's 'animal-based' movement, popularized by Dr. Paul Saladino, lands in the same place: meat and organs at the center, with fruit and honey as clean carbohydrates. We sit right there too.
So we keep the Primal Diet's foundation and loosen the sugar rule. The enemy isn't fruit. It's refined sugar, syrups, juice concentrates, and processed snacks.
- Mango
- Papaya
- Pineapple
- Berries
- Banana
- Citrus
- Dates
- Watermelon
- Passion fruit
- Tomato
How we eat fruit
- Whole fruit, not juice. Chewing and fiber slow the sugar down.
- Pair it with fat or protein: cream, cheese, eggs, coconut, avocado.
- Ripe and in season. Local tropical fruit is about as primal as it gets.
- Fruit after meat works well. Papaya and pineapple help digestion.
- Raw, unheated honey counts as fruit's best friend, not as sugar.
- Listen to your body. Some feel best with more fruit, some with less.
The roots
Aajonus Vonderplanitz and the Primal Diet
Most of what our community practices traces back to Aajonus Vonderplanitz (1947–2013), the man who did more than anyone to put raw meat back on the modern table.
By his own account, he was a very sick young man: diagnosed with juvenile diabetes as a teenager and with cancer in his early twenties. He turned first to raw vegetable juice and raw milk. In 1976 he ate raw meat, and he said everything changed from there.
Over the following decades he built the Primal Diet: raw meat, raw fat, raw dairy, raw eggs, green vegetable juice, and unheated honey. He wrote it down in We Want To Live (1997) and The Recipe for Living Without Disease (2002), and taught it in hundreds of workshops and Q&A sessions.
He also fought for the right to eat this way. In 1998 he founded Right to Choose Healthy Food to defend raw-milk farmers, and he helped persuade Los Angeles County to allow raw milk sales.
Aajonus died in 2013 in Thailand after a fall from a balcony. His recordings, newsletters, and books are still preserved and studied by raw eaters around the world.
Raw around the world
Raw meat isn't new. It's everywhere.
Long before it was 'extreme', raw animal food was simply food. Many cultures still celebrate it.
Steak tartare
France
Carpaccio
Italy
Kitfo
Ethiopia
Yukhoe
Korea
Basashi & sashimi
Japan
Kibbeh nayyeh
Lebanon
Mett
Germany
Raw & frozen meat and organs
Inuit Arctic
Naniura
North Sumatra, Indonesia
Gohu ikan
North Maluku, Indonesia
Go deeper
Further reading
aajonus.net
The largest archive of Aajonus's books, newsletters, workshops, and Q&A transcripts.
aajonus.rawprimal.org
Another archive of Primal Diet material and Aajonus's teachings.
The Recipe for Living Without Disease
Aajonus's 2002 book: the diet explained, plus about 125 pages of raw recipes.
The Hadza's paleo diet had carbs
Knowable Magazine on how hunter-gatherers like the Hadza combine meat with honey, berries, and fruit.
Nutrition and Physical Degeneration
Weston A. Price's 1939 study of traditional diets around the world, many rich in raw animal foods.
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