--- product_id: 2180154 title: "The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability (Flashpoint Press)" brand: "lierre keith" price: "170.27 DT" currency: TND in_stock: true reviews_count: 10 url: https://www.desertcart.tn/products/2180154-the-vegetarian-myth-food-justice-and-sustainability-flashpoint-press store_origin: TN region: Tunisia --- # The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability (Flashpoint Press) **Brand:** lierre keith **Price:** 170.27 DT **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability (Flashpoint Press) by lierre keith - **How much does it cost?** 170.27 DT with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.tn](https://www.desertcart.tn/products/2180154-the-vegetarian-myth-food-justice-and-sustainability-flashpoint-press) ## Best For - lierre keith enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted lierre keith brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability (Flashpoint Press) ## Images ![The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability (Flashpoint Press) - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/8115SsT6JDL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars Tragic comedy *by J***N on Reviewed in the United States on February 11, 2024* Fun to see a self proclaimed "dyed in the wool" vegetarian have an awakening. I do tons of research, I do know good research when I see it. She's got some good stuff here. Doesn't get it all right (no one does) but has lots to say. Not unlike Hyman's "Food Fix" book, it's quite depressing. I've known this for decades now after reading "Elephants In The Volkswagon". We are in a real pickle, no one really cares, everyone want to eat their poor excuse for food, and thanks to overpopulation (understatement) and special thanks to modern agriculture, it's unfixable. Man ,as far as the time frame of our human evolution, will surely be extinct in a blink of an eye. No getting around it. Takes a strong stomach to read a book like this. Truth hurts! ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars First hand knowledge *by M***N on Reviewed in the United States on January 26, 2024* Lierre Keith goes into great depth describing the damage to her health caused by two decades of veganism. She discusses the millions of animals killed for agriculture that vegans think harms none. The answer, as described by Lierre, is to allow cattle, sheep, pigs, etc. to graze on grass. Feeding livestock on corn and other annual crops only makes the animals fat and unhealthy as well as wasting water to grow crops on land that would never naturally support those crops. Grasslands supported millions of bison. We can do better, and do it sustainability. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars Imperfect, but compelling *by C***6 on Reviewed in the United States on May 12, 2011* Its flaws notwithstanding, this is a thought provoking book which challenges many assumptions about nutrition and environmental issues. A devout vegangelical of 20 years, Keith explains that she was forced to resume to omnivory due to failing health. A rapid improvement in her physical condition led to an in-depth self exploration as well as extensive reading and thinking about the nutritional, moral, and environmental consequences of veganism. This book is the product of that work.The section on nutrition was the lengthiest but perhaps the weakest part of the book. Instead of arguing that a strictly plant based diet is unhealthy for many, if not most, people, she makes an impassioned attempt to convince us that a diet high in animal products and low in grains is the only healthy option for anyone. She quotes 2nd hand sources, some of questionable reputation, championing a paleo type diet. She dismisses mainstream medical research as junk science conducted by simpletons who never think to question Ansel Keyes' claim that coronary heart disease correlates with high fat diet. She fancies a conspiracy of sorts, between the grain industry and medical associations. This is ironically reminiscent of the sort of conspiracy theories about the meat industry that some vegans flap about when confronted with any sort of evidence, anecdotal or otherwise, that suggests a plant based diet might not be healthy for everyone.Too bad Keith didn't bother with actual reports from peer reviewed journals, and look into some of that mainstream medical research herself. If she had, she would have discovered that the issue of dietary fat, cardiovascular disease, and cancer, is exquisitely complicated, with results of some studies suggesting a connection between diets high in saturated fat and increased morbidity and mortality.....as well as other studies that do not.But why bother to take on mainstream medicine at all? In my years as a health care provider, I never knew a single physician or nutritionist to recommend a vegan diet, and I never recommended it myself. A varied diet of lean animal products, fresh fruits, vegetables, and minimally processed grains is what most doctors and nutritionists suggest. It's as if Keith feels that in order to show that a plant based diet is unhealthy for at least some people, she has to prove that a predominately carnivorous diet devoid of grains is the only healthy diet for anybody. There is no need to paint such a black and white picture, and there really isn't evidence enough to back it up.I think she would have done much better to use anecdotal evidence, based on her experience with her vegan friends over many years, to argue that veganism is unhealthy for many people. Anecdotal evidence is entirely appropriate in this case, because no systematic study on the health of vegan adults or vegan from birth children accounts for the fact that many others have given it up, due to deteriorating health. And in no study is it possible to verify that people aren't cheating just a little bit, eating animal products from time to time. Cheating is not uncommon -- I have seen this myself, but don't take it from me: Google "ex-vegans" and read some of their accounts.The section on moral issues was somewhat better. She points out that production of vegetable crops results in direct killing or injuring of myriads of small creatures, and that large annual monocrops cause soil erosion and destroy huge expanses of wildlife habitat, along with various and sundry flora and fauna which depend upon it. Thus, even a vegan diet necessarily causes suffering individuals -- there is no such thing as "cruelty free" eating. Large annual monocrops also lead to extinction of entire species, not just suffering individuals. A vegan world, then, would be a rather lonely one, impoverished of species and habitat. However, her claim that plants "don't want to be eaten" was completely unnecessary and only weakened the argument by exposing her limited understanding of anatomy, physiology, and evolution, in my view. Here, she seems to confuse the results of natural selection with deliberate intent. Plants have no nervous system, and therefore lack the cerebral structures necessary for emotion, desire, or future planning.This brings us to the final section, To Save the World. Keith envisions locally based permaculture, in which animal and plant food production are integrated to mimic natural food webs of producers and consumers, prey and predator. In this system, animal wastes are used to feed the topsoil, and the animals convert cellulose into food that humans can digest. This is in sharp contrast to industrial agriculture, in which production of animal foods is separated from production of plant foods. The result is that animal waste is poisoning our wetlands and the many species that inhabit them, and greenhouse gas producing fossil fuel combustion is used to produce the chemical fertilizers needed for vegetable monocrops. In the end, though, she doesn't completely convince me that sustainable vegan permaculture is impossible. She does convince me that veganism is unhealthy for at least some, perhaps most (all?), people, and therefore some animal foods will always need to be produced, and we must find a more sustainable way to produce them.She makes a brief but compelling argument for local economy: if people depend on the resources in their own backyard, they are more likely to steward them appropriately. She makes the intriguing suggestion that deforestation in New England resulted not from the demand for animal products, but from the use of coal, rather than wood, for fuel. This is probably true: if New Englanders had had no option but to burn wood to keep warm, they would have maintained their woodlots. Hunters have been trying to tell us this for years: they are highly motivated to protect the species they depend on for food, and have done a better job at conserving wildlife than non-hunters.To sum up, this book definitely has some remarkable weaknesses, but these are outweighed by its strengths, in its synthesis of a huge amount of information from a wide variety of disciplines, and, in some instances, in its originality. To my knowledge, she is the first to liken veganism to a cult (which has been exactly my experience with vegan friends). She crushes the knee-jerk vegetarian notion of eating low on the food chain to save the environment, and, while she fails (in my opinion) to prove that a diet high in animal protein is the only healthy one, she at the very least casts serious doubt on the healthfulness of a plant based diet. All impressive accomplishments, especially for someone without a degree in ethics, nutrition, medicine, or ecology.If you are a vegan suffering from deteriorating health, a conscientious omnivore or vegetarian thinking of "going all the way", or if, like me, you have helplessly witnessed vegan friends reduce themselves to emaciated, anergic ghosts of their former selves, then read this book.Hopefully Keith will continue her research and eventually achieve a more nuanced view of health and nutrition, and continue her personal journey towards a less absolutist and self-righteous perspective on life. She still has a ways to go. 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