Lierre Keith At Berkeley City College - Part 4

November 22, 2009

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.

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• Vegetarianism
• Food
• Health
• Animals
• Carbohydrate
• Grains
• Sustainability

[FemmeBleu]

@linghun Oh, dear.. This is why they should teach biological and cultural anthropology in grade school. Its alarming to think an adult woman doesn't know her evolutionary theory. Stay in school and don't do drugs!

[FemmeBleu]

Thank you sooooo much for putting this up! I 'can't wait to show it to every one who criticizes my Paleo lifestyle : )

[FemmeBleu]

@smurfieboo no.

[smurfieboo]

@FemmeBleu Neurosis has eroded her mind and spine

[fosheezeey]

As long as money determines our decisions we will continue to see the degeneration of our environment, freedoms and quality of life.

A resource based economy is inevitable if we are to continue to survive on this planet. We can not survive on a system that relies on the cyclical consumption of resources on a finite planet. We can educate ourselves and others on a Resource Based Economy, we still have the tools and ability to come together and work toward a more sustainable/sane system.

[linghun]

@FemmeBleu they had Youtube in the paleolithic?