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The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability Paperback - 2009 - 1st Edition

by Lierre Keith


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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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  • Title The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability
  • Author Lierre Keith
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 320
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Flashpoint Press, Oakland
  • Date 2009-05
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9781604860801 / 1604860804
  • Weight 0.9 lbs (0.41 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.8 in (22.61 x 14.99 x 2.03 cm)
  • Themes
    • Topical: Health & Fitness
  • Library of Congress subjects Vegetarianism, Sustainable agriculture
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2009921671
  • Dewey Decimal Code 613.262

About the author

Lierre Keith is a writer, a farmer, and a feminist activist. She is the author of the novels Conditions of War and Skyler Gabriel. She splits her time between Northampton, Massachusetts and Humboldt, California.
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