Vegetarian Myth, The: Food, Justice and Sustainability (Flashpoint Press)

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Jeffreys, Sheila. 1993. The Lesbian Heresy: A Feminist Perspective on the Lesbian Sexual Revolution. Melbourne: Spinifex Press. I think if people really understood that the techno industry is destroying life on the planet, the only logical option is to side with life on the planet and want to protect that. In a biological sense, this is a planet of bacteria. They are the people doing the basic work of life. They keep the basic cycles going–the carbon cycle, the nitrogen cycle, without which no animals would be here. We need to get profoundly humble before the incredible activities they do that make our lives possible. That humility needs to be the basis of our culture, our religion, our reality. 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.

UPDATED: QLaw opposes Women's Liberation Front's involvement in UW Law interview program". February 2021. Dann, Christine. 1985. Up from Under: Women and Liberation in New Zealand 1970–1985. Wellington: Allen and Unwin. S – We are facing opposition from the basic psychologies of the people and they will do anything to protect their lives, starting from denial. Maybe also thinking that even though other civilisations ended in collapse, that’s not going to happen to us. Berg was one of three women who had strapped a camera to themselves to record the event’s speakers. Two of the women filming had their GoPro gear stolen, and at least four women had their phones stolen by the trans activists. None of their property has so far been recovered.The second reason is that I didn’t want a whole new group of idealistic young people to destroy their health. A vegetarian diet — and especially a vegan diet — does not provide for the long-term maintenance and repair of the human body. So vegetarians are on drawdown of their biological reserves. Such views are shared by few feminists now, but they still have a foothold among some self-described radical feminists, who have found themselves in an acrimonious battle with trans people and their allies. Trans women say that they are women because they feel female—that, as some put it, they have women’s brains in men’s bodies. Radical feminists reject the notion of a “female brain.” They believe that if women think and act differently from men it’s because society forces them to, requiring them to be sexually attractive, nurturing, and deferential. In the words of Lierre Keith, a speaker at Radfems Respond, femininity is “ritualized submission.”

So all we have to do is give women complete control over their reproductive lives and their sexual lives. Which goes against almost every religion in the world particularly the fundamental ones. They have an enormous amount of power.At first, the book infuriated Russell, but she couldn’t let go of the questions that it raised about her own identity. She had been having heart palpitations, which made her uneasy about the hormones she was taking. Nor did she ever fully believe herself to be male. At one point during her transition, she hooked up with a middle-aged trans woman. Russell knew that she was supposed to think of herself as a man with a woman, but, she said, “It didn’t feel right, and I was scared.” Eventually, she proclaimed herself a woman again, and a radical feminist, though it meant being ostracized by many of her friends. She is now engaged to a woman; someone keyed the word “dyke” on her fiancée’s car. Bruley, Sue. 2013. Consciousness-Raising in Clapham: Women’s Liberation as ‘Lived Experience’ in South London in The 1970s. Women’s History Review 22 (5): 717–738. Whether we’re nutrition newbies or seasoned veterans of seasonings, we all share the experience of a “nutrition journey”. The reason we can’t harvest the sun is because the rest of the planet needs the sun. Plants need the sun, they’re the ones doing the primary production. They can photosynthesis, you and I can’t do that. If we take all the land and turn it into solar panels, there’s not going to be any life. The scale of what would be necessary to use something like solar to produce this kind of energy, you’d have to cover the whole planet in solar panels. It’s not feasible.

In this view, gender is less an identity than a caste position. Anyone born a man retains male privilege in society; even if he chooses to live as a woman—and accept a correspondingly subordinate social position—the fact that he has a choice means that he can never understand what being a woman is really like. By extension, when trans women demand to be accepted as women they are simply exercising another form of male entitlement. All this enrages trans women and their allies, who point to the discrimination that trans people endure; although radical feminism is far from achieving all its goals, women have won far more formal equality than trans people have. In most states, it’s legal to fire someone for being transgender, and transgender people can’t serve in the military. A recent survey by the National Center for Transgender Equality and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force found overwhelming levels of anti-trans violence and persecution. Forty-one per cent of respondents said that they had attempted suicide.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. We all need each other, we are a web and all connected. None of us exist without the other. It’s a very different kind of awareness to live with the awe that life inspires and the love we should feel. 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. The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability is a 2009 book by Lierre Keith published by PM Press. Keith is an ex-vegan who believes that "veganism has damaged her health and others". [1] Keith argues that agriculture is destroying not only human health but entire ecosystems, such as the North American prairie, and destroying topsoil. [2] [3] Keith also considers modern agriculture to be the root cause of slavery, imperialism, militarism, chronic hunger and disease. [4] BNT: Since your book’s publication in 2009, were you surprised by the reactions from the vegan/vegetarian community?