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Old 10-12-2009, 04:26 AM   #139 (permalink)
Excellent Lodestar
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Default Lierre Keith --Vegetarian myth,indeed

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,Amazon.com: The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability (9781604860801): Lierre Keith: Books she argues that we’ve been led astray--not by our longings for a just and sustainable world, but by our ignorance. I've just started reading this book...from what i've read so far, she just nails it,from Moral Vegetarians to Political Vegetarians to Nutritional Vegetarians

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.

the first few pages can be read here

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