Lierre Keith ( / l i ˈ ɛər/; born 1964) is an American writer, radical feminist, food activist, and radical environmentalist. Bunch, Charlotte. 1978. Passionate Politics: Feminist Theory in Action. New York: St. Martin’s Press. I offered those guidelines about what to eat because I knew people would want to know. I did not call them resistance, because they’re not resistance. What were some of the health concerns you experienced from consuming a vegan diet, and that your readers have shared with you? And should we be eating soy?

Having rejected this supposition, radical feminists now find themselves in a position that few would have imagined when the conflict began: shunned as reactionaries on the wrong side of a sexual-rights issue. It is, to them, a baffling political inversion.Besides the mass extinction, it’s inherently unsustainable. When you remove the perennial polyculture–the grassland or the forest–the soil is exposed and it dies. It turns to desert ultimately. There’s been 34 civilisations and they’ve all ended in collapse. It’s grim. The archaeological evidence is always grim. The final proteins in the cooking pot are human. People starve and they do what starving people do. It’s horrible to contemplate and people don’t want to contemplate it. It’s not fun to notice the historical pattern.

a b Nicholson, P. (2011) Simon Fairlie, Meat: A benign extravagance; Lierre Keith, The Vegetarian Myth: Food, justice and sustainability; and Bob Torres and Jenna Torres, Vegan Freak: Being vegan in a non-vegan world Peace News (Issue 2534) L – For solar panels and wind turbines, they will say – other things are more destructive as if that’s somehow ok that we would add an additional destructive industry. Of course we should be working to reduce all things that are causing harm. Not, we’re causing harm already to let’s destroy everything. It makes no sense as an argument. And it gets even more bizarre in that it’s those very agricultural foods that are promoted as the way to save the planet. So I wanted to reach the people most impassioned about the state of our planet and try to explain that we have gotten this wrong for a generation. It’s not the values that are wrong, it’s purely informational. London Women’s Liberation Newsletter. 1982, June 1. This Newsletter is Internal to the Women’s Movement and is for Women Only. Please Do Not Show it to Men or Let Them Have Access to it or Use it to Advertise on Their Behalf [Note in London Women’s Liberation Newsletter, Number 270, June 1, 1982]. The Women’s Library. (Papers of Sue O’Sullivan 7SUL). LSE Library, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, United Kingdom.Merrifield, Andrews. 1993. Place and Space: A Lefebvrian Reconciliation. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 18 (4): 516–531. In this week’s blog I speak to Lierre Keith, author of The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability (Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2009) about her journey from twenty-year vegan to hunter-gatherer eater, and the emotional, social, and political changes she experienced along the way. It’s not too complicated, we have to be bio centric again and take it away from the corporate interest who have taken over through funding and also it’s a message that’s easy and palatable for people to hear. We need to reclaim the environmental movement and make it once again about protecting life.

S – Now I’m going to shift our focus to women. You’re both radical feminists. Do you see the role of feminism in your vision of the environmental movement? Beins, Agatha. 2017. Liberation in Print: Feminist Periodicals and Social Movement Identity. Athens: University of Georgia Press. At least nine people were arrestedin New York Cityduring protests that broke out in opposition to the last stop of Keen’s US tour. Like in Portland, Keen had been unable to attend the event as she was not able to get to the speaking podium safely due to aggressive counter-protestors.J – I grew up with a love of the natural world. I would go camping and go out in nature and see all the creatures we share the planet with. At the same time for much of my life I was unaware of the destruction that was happening. When I was 16 I watched a documentary called Revolution and learned for the first time that we’re in a mass extinction and the amount of life that is being lost and the devastation that is taking place because of this insane culture. That completely changed my life. I came out of the theatre and decided this is what I have to dedicate my life to. I’m going to work on this and do something about it. I started making documentaries about a week after that. When you look into things like necrophilia, you find definitions like obsessions with machines and with turning human beings into mechanical objects. There’s a real cross over with sadism which is all about controlling living beings and denying them which provides the sexual thrill for the sadists. a b Lane, Walker (Spring 2011). "The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice and Sustainability/Vegan Freak: Being Vegan in a Non-Vegan World". Fifth Estate. 46 (1) . Retrieved July 27, 2014. She can’t go outside without a chaperone, she can never be alone with another man, she can’t leave the house. All these things have to be done to keep women constrained and all that is done so men know for sure who the father is so they can pass down their private property. Right there you’re owning people and you’re no longer human, you’re a thing that he can do whatever he wants to.

a b Sanbonmatsu, J. (2017) Blood and Soil: Notes on Lierre Keith, Locavores, and Death Fetishism Upping the Anti (Issue 12) Russell appears in Sheila Jeffreys’s new book, “Gender Hurts: A Feminist Analysis of the Politics of Transgenderism.” Jeffreys, who is sixty-six, has short silver hair and a weathered face. She has taught at the University of Melbourne for twenty-three years, but she grew up in London, and has been described as the Andrea Dworkin of the U.K. She has written nine previous books, all of which focus on the sexual subjugation of women, whether through rape, incest, pornography, prostitution, or Western beauty norms. Like Dworkin, she is viewed as a heroine by a cadre of like-minded admirers and as a zealot by others. In 2005, in an admiring feature in the Guardian, Julie Bindel wrote, “Jeffreys sees sexuality as the basis of the oppression of women by men, in much the same way as Marx saw capitalism as the scourge of the working class. This unwavering belief has made her many enemies. Postmodern theorist Judith Halberstam once said, ‘If Sheila Jeffreys did not exist, Camille Paglia would have had to invent her.’ ” Dann, Christine. 1985. Up from Under: Women and Liberation in New Zealand 1970–1985. Wellington: Allen and Unwin. Movement toward more sustainable food systems is growing", By Emily Shartin, Boston Globe Staff, July 26, 2006Whether we’re nutrition newbies or seasoned veterans of seasonings, we all share the experience of a “nutrition journey”.