Low-Carb Food Manufacturer Dixie Diner In Possible Trademark Infringement Using The Atkins Name

DITTO JENNIFER, Raw vegan low-carb or in other words Organic and Natural Food is the only way to avoid the diseases we’ve brought upon ourselves with processed, sugary, salty, caffeinated so-called food. The bottom line here is: a step in the right direction is better than nothing.

Dixie seems to believe it is entitled to use the Atkins name. It will be interesting to see what happens.

As a vegetarian myself, I would not eat this rubbish. And as for low-carb vegetarians wanting low-fat foods – absolute balderdash! I WANT my fat. And I’m sure I’m not the only low-carb vegetarian out there who realises the importance of good and healthy fats in our diet.

Dixie is not serving the needs of consumers; it is trying to catch those who still have the low-fat-eating mindset but want to try low carb – and who also can’t be bothered to eat healthy REAL food.

Who put the con in consumers? Hmmmm, let me think…

Lortetta – I’m with you ! While we all find our own path, a simple, meat-based diet has changed my life, and I would only go “veg” if I was starving to death and had no choice. IMHO being “veg” is the “IN” thing right now, especially among younger folks. And from what I’ve read, the “evidence” that it’s better seems to use a lot of the junk science methodology as outlined by Gary Taubes. I’ll stick with the traditions of my neolithic ancestors as much as possible. As for “Dixie Diners” products – yes – this is definitely copyright infringement, and since I post on Atkins website, I am definitely bringing it to their attention if someone hasn’t already.

Vicki, I let ANI know about it yesterday and will be sharing their statement about this soon.

–Jimmy

Am I the only one who remembers that Jimmy posts recipes all the time with “Dixie” ingredients? Strawberry Crepes anyone?

Although I agree with the copyright argument, you might want to keep an eye on the products you promote before you trash them in a different post.

Just because I don’t personally like the Dixie products doesn’t mean others won’t, Kelly. Take a chill pill, my friend.

–Jimmy

I will not personally criticize anyone who chooses to eat animal products (although my personal beliefs and enlightened mind cannot allow myself to consume them, although I still prepare such meals for the rest of my family), but I cannot allow the propagation of uneducated remarks from someone who believe that it’s impossible to survive — let alone THRIVE (lose weight, heal from disease and experience physical and spiritual bliss) — on a vegan diet. Living (raw vegan) food is a vibrant source of health, energy and complete protein. One does not require meat (or dairy) to survive.

The following (not all-inclusive) list of foods are considered complete proteins (meaning that they contain all of the essential amino acids necessary for human survival):

~ Nuts
~ Soy foods, such as tofu, tempeh, miso, and soy milk
~ Sprouted seeds (each type of sprout has differing proportions of nutrients, so it’s best to eat a variety of them)
~ Grains, especially amaranth and quinoa, are highest in protein and are high-quality proteins
~ Beans and legumes, especially when eaten raw
~ Spirulina and chorella (blue-green algae), which are over 60 percent protein
~ Chia Seeds
~ Bee Pollen

Every person must choose the healthiest path and whatever works for you and that you can stick with is the best diet for you.

~*~Namasté~*~

Oh lord. A list of foods that are “healthy.” Let’s see:

Nuts: Sure, but they’re seed foods, meaning they need processing to a certain extent, and outside our industrial food system they’re only available part of the year.

Soy foods: If you eat much unfermented soy you’re an idiot. Full stop. I actually have begun avoiding most low-carb convenience foods for this reason. I LIKE being able to absorb the minerals I eat, and if I want estrogens in my body, my body is more than capable of making them itself. Even Asians don’t eat that much soy. The Japanese eat tofu, but they eat it in miso, balanced out with kelp.

Sprouted seeds: are OK but you must eat them fresh. Sprout them yourself, don’t buy them in the store. Probably *the* best way to eat most seeds, if you must.

Grains: are seed foods and must be processed to remove phytate, and are too high in carbs for the amount of protein they contain.

Beans and legumes: I hope you don’t mean you eat the dried beans raw. Again a seed food, again must have the phytate removed first, again too carby for the amount of protein. Green beans are OK, I guess, but in my experience they are just nasty uncooked.

Spirulina and chorella (blue-green algae): are not recognized by most human beings as food. And you have to grow them in vats, or else harvest them from a body of water, thereby disturbing the lake/marine life.

Chia Seeds: Again, a seed food. And too damn tiny. They work better as garnish than as a main course.

Bee Pollen: WTF is bee pollen? You mean flower pollen, right? Again, not something that all human beings recognize as food. And way too difficult to gather for the amount of nutrition you get.

Do vegans even eat real food or do you sit around in smoking circles trying to think up weirder and weirder stuff to outdo Moon Unit and Starshine who had the fermented manure tea last week?

You have to plow, plant, and harvest to be a vegan, which causes animals to die. You have to cook plants, sometimes in weird ways, to be a vegan. You HAVE to. If you eat all plant food raw you’re going to run a nice little gamut of phytochemicals that you do NOT want coursing around through your body–the goitrogens in brassica vegetables such as broccoli and cabbage, for instance. Or the oxalic acid in spinach. I have spoken with people who could not be vegetarian because they absorb plant iron poorly–they had to have heme iron or they were anemic. I have experienced for myself that I cannot get enough vitamin A through beta carotene, I MUST obtain retinol and for that I have to eat critters. And you can’t get enough saturated fats through a vegan diet unless you eat coconut and palm oil, and that requires importing it, which is NOT eco-friendly. (I eat coconut anyway, but I recognize it could go away at any time if food prices keep going up.)

It’s so much easier to raise a herd of cattle and get milk from them and slaughter some of them than it is to go through all the contortions you go through. And the nutrients are so much more available, with much less taxing of the pancreas. But hey, if you’re here in this life to make life harder for yourself, go ahead.