The Vegetarian Myth, Lierre Keith
The Vegetarian Myth, Lierre Keith
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The Vegetarian Myth
Food, Justice, and Sustainability

Author: Lierre Keith

Narrator: Joyce Bean

Unabridged: 9 hr 35 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 02/08/2012


Synopsis

We’ve been told that a vegetarian diet can feed the hungry, honor the animals, and save the planet. Lierre Keith believed in that plant-based diet and spent twenty years as a vegan. But in The Vegetarian Myth, she argues that we’ve been led astray - not by our longings for a just and sustainable world, but by our ignorance.The truth is that agriculture is a relentless assault against the planet, and more of the same won’t save us. In service to annual grains, humans have devastated prairies and forests, driven countless species extinct, altered the climate, and destroyed the topsoil - the basis of life itself. Keith argues that if we are to save this planet, our food must be an act of profound and abiding repair: it must come from inside living communities, not be imposed across them.Part memoir, part nutritional primer, and part political manifesto, The Vegetarian Myth will challenge everything you thought you knew about food politics."Lierre Keith’s book is beyond fantastic."
-Dr. Michael Eades, author of Protein Power"This book saved my life. Not only does The Vegetarian Myth make clear how we should be eating, but also how the dominant food system is killing the planet. This necessary book challenges many of the destructive myths we live by and offers us a way back into our bodies, and back into the fight to save the planet."
-Derrick Jensen, author of Endgame and A Language Older Than Words"Everyone interested in healthy eating should be grateful to Lierre Keith."
-Sally Fallon Morell, President, The Weston A. Price Foundation"Whether you are a vegan, vegetarian, or never gave up meat at all, you will benefit from this author's painful mistakes and her laser-like focus on the path to a sane diet and all that it entails."
-Peter Bane, Permaculture Activist

About Lierre Keith

Lierre Keith is a writer, small farmer, and radical feminist activist. She is the author of six books including, The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability, which has been called "the most important ecological book of this generation." She is also coauthor, with Derrick Jensen and Aric McBay, of Deep Green Resistance: Strategy to Save the Planet. She's been arrested six times for acts of political resistance. She lives in northern California where she shares twenty acres with giant trees and giant dogs.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Ryan on June 22, 2012

Tim Ferriss (highly) recommended this book to me. I've always felt that there is nothing more impressive than seeing someone turn over a long held belief in light of new evidence. That's essentially the premise of this book-a 20+ year vegan finds it impossible to keep denying that meat is a natural......more

Goodreads review by Leran on February 03, 2012

This is definitely an interesting read, but I found many things about the book itself problematic and generally disagree with her conclusions despite agreeing with some of her arguments. Until I find a superior book (which I hope will be easy to find)I would recommend conscious omnivores and vegetar......more

Goodreads review by Rogers on October 11, 2011

Written by a former vegan and addressed to vegetarians from "inside the camp," as it were. Her rather biographical approach is frank and fact-based without being bitter. She is clearly sympathetic to the sensibilities of vegetarians. BTW--I am not a vegetarian, and I still found the book to be thoug......more

Goodreads review by ryn on June 11, 2010

a clear, impassioned, and comprehensive argument that there is no sufficient justification--whether moral, political, nutritional, or otherwise--for a diet based on the industrial agriculture of annual monocrops. this, i would emphasize, includes most standard American diets as much as it does veg[e......more