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DESCRIPTION:Lierre Keith discusses her new book.  This event is free.\n\nWe’ve been 
 told that a vegetarian diet can feed the hungry, honor the animals, protect 
 our health, and save the planet. Author Lierre Keith believed in that 
 plant-based diet and spent twenty years as a vegan. But in "The Vegetarian 
 Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability" (PM Press, May 2009) she argues 
 that we’ve been led astray--not by our longings for a just and 
 sustainable world, but by our ignorance.\n\nThe 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. \n\nAccording to Keith, 
 the question we need to ask is way bigger than what’s dead on your 
 plate--it’s what died to get that meal there. For agricultural foods, the 
 answer is whole continents. “Agriculture is carnivorous,” Keith writes. 
 “What it eats is entire ecosystems, and it swallows them whole.” 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.\n\n"The Vegetarian Myth" is also a cautionary 
 tale. Keith persisted with a vegan diet even after it permanently damaged 
 her body. She explores the psychology of vegetarian identity while still 
 remaining true to the values that informed her veganism.\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/05/26/18598362.php
SUMMARY:Lierre Keith: The Vegetarian Myth-Food, Justice & Sustainability
LOCATION:Bound Together Anarchist Collective Bookstore\n1369 Haight Street (near 
 Masonic)\nSan Francisco \nbus lines 71 6 33 37 and 43 stop nearby
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/05/26/18598362.php
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