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Originally Posted by Altair
Making tools and fire, and cooking food is something we discovered and just because other animals don't do it (tools aside) it doesn't mean it's 'unnatural'. If raw veganism wants to live like our distant ancestors.. without using fire, without cooking you'd have to get back to a way of life in which you have to incorporate scavenging corpses..! 
Or do you want to get back even further in time..
Where do you draw the line, Sapphirez?
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It is "unnatural" because it grossly goes against nature, which is ideal in its "natural" state. Some creatures are adapted to consume tough things like many grains and legumes in their natural state, raw, obviously we are not.
Where I draw the line is where nature draws it, where the scales of the given food are tipped more against our favor than for or in it. I'm eating rice and corn tortillas with beans and cooked vegetables as I type this (Chipotle's) so I can assure you I wish these types of things were actually healthy for us, but unfortunately they're not