The Vegetarian Myth

The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability is a 2009 book by Lierre Keith.[1][2]

In the book Keith argues that agriculture is destroying entire ecosystems, such as the North American prairie. Agriculture also destroys topsoil.[3] Keith includes “slavery, imperialism, militarism, class divisions, chronic hunger, and disease” as historical outcomes of civilization and its over-dependence on mass cultivation.[3]

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker endorsed the book, saying "[The Vegetarian Myth] is one of the most important books people, masses of them, can read, as we try with all our might, intelligence, skill, hope, dream, and memory, to turn the disastrous course the planet is on."

References

  1. ↑ 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.
  2. ↑ Fitzpatrick, Ian (May 2010). "The Vegetarian Myth". New Internationalist. Issue 432. Retrieved July 27, 2014.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Vegan Wars", Uttarika Kumaran / DNA, Saturday, February 20, 2010