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No cover — Lierre Keith: The Vegetarian Myth (2012)

English language

Published March 15, 2012

ISBN:: 978-1-4558-6415-7

(1 review)

The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability is a 2009 book by Lierre Keith published by PM Press. Keith is an ex-vegan who believes veganism has damaged her health and others'. Keith argues that agriculture is destroying not only human health but entire ecosystems, such as the North American prairie, and destroying topsoil. Keith also considers modern agriculture to be the root cause of slavery, imperialism, militarism, chronic hunger and disease.Keith argues humans should accept death as a necessary precursor to food in that "everyone will get eaten, sooner or later". In sum, her proposition is that herbivores eat grass, humans eat herbivores, and then (eventually) worms/bacteria/etc. eat humans.

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Chloris reviewed The vegetarian myth by Lierre Keith

The stones left unturned. Why?

5 stars

The book is full of information, that should be awfully obvious to anyone having at least a garden. On the other hand, the world is being taken over by veganism, which claims to be world-saving and to cause the least (or even no!) suffering.

The problem is all of the above statements are false. Agriculture is not sustainable and the production of vegan food causes much suffering, from animal suffering to destroying whole ecosystems. This is something anyone can notice once they bring their attention to it.

If you care about your health, this world, and suffering of all living creatures, you owe it to yourself to read this book.