The Vegetarian Myth
Food, Justice, and Sustainability
by Lierre Keith · first published 2009
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"Part memoir, nutritional primer, and political manifesto, this controversial examination exposes the destructive history of agriculture-causing the devastation of prairies and forests, driving countless species extinct, altering the climate, and destroying the topsoil-and asserts that, in order to save the planet, food must come from within living communities. In order for this to happen, the argument champions eating locally and sustainably and encourages those with the resources to grow their own food. Further examining the question of what to eat from the perspective of both human and envi
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…meat may be, it’s ethically and environmentally bad. I disagree entirely, but there is no need to relitigate this debate here. If by any chance you have never read the pro-meat argument, the book The Vegetarian Myth by Lierre Keith is a pretty good primer.
on “Beyond Meat and KFC partner to test fried plant-based ‘chicken’” ↗…http://higher-thought.net/complete-notes-to-good-calories-ba... you miss some nuances, explainations and a boatload of references from the book, but it's a nice intro. As far as being vegan goes, check out 'the vegetarian myth' by Leirre Keith, I've been reading parts of it and it's both entertaining and it really gets under your skin.
on “The Acceleration of Addictiveness” ↗I don't know if this answers your question, but do read The Vegetarian Myth when you get a chance. It is one of the most profound and wonderful books I've ever read about the subject of sustainability/ethics for vegetarianism vs. omivoreism. Lierre Keith, while rather radical,…
on “Climate Impacts of Biking vs. Driving” ↗…nations are all too willing to dump onto other countries, putting local farmers out of business and advancing an imperialist dependency. Lierre Keith, vegan for 20 years (now ex-vegan), in her book _The Vegetarian Myth_ says it best: > Why should people in Cambodia be dependent on the US for their basic sustenance? It condemns them to participating in a market economy where they will have to dedicate their labor and…
on “Impossible Burgers’ key, bloody ingredient gets long awaited nod from FDA” ↗Nutrition and Physical Degeneration by Weston A. Price The Hunting Apes: Meat Eating and the Origins of Human Behavior by Craig B. Stanford The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability by Lierre Keith Craft Beef: A Revolution of Small Farms and Big Flavors by Joe Heitzeberg, Ethan Lowry, and Caroline Sanders Don’t Eat the Oil! The Health Consequences…
on “Ask HN: Books you read in 2018?” ↗I realize that sourcing wikipedia is kind of lazy but I lack the time to read entire books full of every sort of misinformation that happens to be going around. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Vegetarian_Myth From the article: --------------------------------------------------------- For the earth to survive, Keith thinks, the human population needs to be reduced by more than 90 percent. She also argues…
on “Beyond Meat and KFC partner to test fried plant-based ‘chicken’” ↗…and it changed my life in many ways. I was extremely sceptical of the arguments for veganism and tried looking for arguments to refute the claims made in the book. People online were raving about "the vegetarian myth" by Lierre Keith, so I went to the library and borrowed it. I really wanted the book to be good, but found probably the most anti-intellectual garbage ever produced. After getting about half way through,…
on “What philosopher Peter Singer has learned in 45 years of advocating for animals” ↗…grazed. It was grass that created cows; human “domestication” was, in comparison, just the tiniest tug on the bovine genome, and cows tugged back with the lactose tolerance gene. - Lierre Keith, _The Vegetarian Myth_: Chapter 4, Nutritional Vegetarians, pg. 139 Put another way, the grass depends on the cows as much as the cows depend on the grass. A symbiotic interdependence. If the implied argument is to instead…
on “Impossible Burgers’ key, bloody ingredient gets long awaited nod from FDA” ↗