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The Vegetarian Myth
- Food, Justice, and Sustainability
- Narrated by: Joyce Bean
- Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
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The Vegetarian Myth
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Publisher's Summary
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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Overall3 out of 5 stars
- Matt
- 30-05-2016
Too much opinion
If Lierre stuck to the points backed up by research, this would have been 5/5.
Her hatred of the mythical patriarchy resulted in opinions dominating facts when discussing her views on this "male dominated world".
It's a shame as this reduces the credibility of an otherwise outstanding book.
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- Jesse
- 06-03-2018
An excellent study on the subject of veganism
Lierre does a great job bringing together the various “inconvenient truths” surrounding vegetarianism and veganism. The book is well organised, thorough but concise, and the overall story is punctuated by interesting facts and tangible evidence (useful for those persuaded only by sound arguments and not emotion). However, while I do understand her wish to provide a comprehensive overview of the issue by linking her argument to feminist ideologies (i.e., patriarchy’s overarching influence on our food supply; see approximately 2:23:30 for an example) and spirituality (i.e., discussions around the consciousness of plants), I felt that this was potentially confusing or irrelevant to the reader and took away from the main thesis of the book. Overall, an excellent read (or listen).
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- Amazon Customer
- 10-01-2017
Enlightening
I loved this book. Particularly the section on nutrition. I will be reading it again.
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- Rachelle S LeQuesne
- 19-02-2022
Needs a brutal editor
The valuable message Lierre has to share is obscured by long drawn-out feminine and political ramblings that have nothing to with vegetarianism or veganism.
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- Anonymous User
- 09-03-2021
undeniably true!
amazing book straight to the point! nature is undeniable in it's truth greatly to read this book 😊
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- Anonymous User
- 06-01-2022
10 years vegan, no longer.
'Recovering Vegan' here... highly recommend this to anyone and everyone.. especially vego and vegans.... its a hard pill to swallow but a good place to start.
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- Hayley
- 25-09-2018
An excellent and life-changing read
I was vegetarian/vegan for 17 years and never really felt well. I gave up that way of eating 18 years ago and haven't looked back. This book explains why I experienced what I did and why so many others do too. I used to be vegetarian because I thought I was helping the planet and my health. How wrong I was.
An excellent, well-written book.
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- Elizabeth Blake
- 05-08-2018
Brilliant
Searching, piercing, knowledgeable. That was what I was looking for, to test the vegetarian narrative that I suspected had fierce political drivers. I had begun to question the information modelling I had been persuaded by in the vegetarian discourse and their political platforms, simply because it was too neat and insufficiently searching about other areas (like our lifestyles and so many narrative conflicts). I also saw people on meat for long and short periods with incredible reversals in serious diseases and conditions, and thought, "ok,what has this woman to say? How thorough is she, will she be utopian and ignoring the whole story?" Suffice to say, I am very impressed. Impressed with her depth of challenge, enquiry, and empathy in dealing with a question that is big enough to divide some friends and families! Excellent book, great on audio too.
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- Kindle Customer
- 20-05-2022
Awesome
loved it how can we be so stupid! lied to for so long
I'm changing my life from this very day
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- Lea Hullett
- 31-05-2022
Must read for many reasons
Everyone who is concerned about their health, the planet and especially those who think not eating meat or fish is going to help should take a good long think about what's in this book.
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