Vegetarianism

Truly the best thing ever posted on HF!

 

I agree hahah :2thumbsup:

 

Nah, that ass shot you posted was better.

 

I did not coin the term but I might have helped popularize it. I first came across the term on WAPaus Yahoo webring. Some years ago I was in the UK and TV chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall showed TV viewers what factory chicken farming was like and what free range chicken farming was like and suddenly Tesco had a load of chickens they could not sell.

I have not given up on grains altogether but I only eat potatoes occasionally. I consider carbs as substrate for eating more butter.

 

I will never look at bananas in the same way anymore :sunny:

 

Lierre Keith takes a subset of people who are eating the unhealthier foods, such as refined grains and processed sugar, and projects it onto the entire vegetarian community. It blurs veganism and vegetarianism with unhealthy eating habits.

One could just as well take a subset of the meat-eating population that consumes the unhealthier meats such as smoked, preserved, and highly processed meats, project that subset onto the entire meat-eating population, and falsely conclude that eating meat in general is unhealthy.

It unfairly gives a bad reputation to a particular diet and is part of why meat eaters and vegans/vegetarians alike wonder why their diet receives such negative criticism.

In a broader sense, Lierre is using her new antagonistic anti-vegan stance as part of a platform to draw attention to a social and environmental agenda that she's promoting. It differentiates her from the competition of the classic vegan environmentalists by making her more of a paleo meat-eating environmentalist.

 

Lierre is mainly a writer and doesn't appear to have any formal education or work experience in health, diet, fitness, medicine, or large-scale agriculture. She says she is a small farmer.

Lierre is known for her radical feminism and her stance against industrialized civilization, pornography, and transgenderism (particularly men changing gender to women and being allowed into female-only places). She's passionate about her causes but also harbors significant anxiety and bitterness.

Her views are again radical in the 2011 book "Deep Green Resistance" (which is also an organization) in which she is a co-author. The authors call for an anti-industrial revolution which they say can be implemented using an array of methods from passive ones to violent ones against property.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/...exterminist-slated-as-a-PIELC-keynote-speaker

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lierre_Keith#cite_note-7

 

This is what is called a false dichotomy.

 

I do not follow her, and admittedly know little about her other than the book she published a few years back, which I have not read. I posted the video simply to add to the discussion and see what vegans/vegetarians think about what she's saying. While I think she brings up some good points with regards to sugar and grains, I don't agree with everything she says.

 

Another ex-vegan. I have known lifetime vegetarians but people are only vegan only do so on a temporary basis.

 

"Mr Duckman that lemonade was all natural. Made from lemons that died of natural causes. We waited fr the final stages of decay before using them." From Duckman cartoon.

 

lol

 

Sorry, been a meat eater all my life, gonna die eatin a big ole juicy porterhouse.

 

Well at least you apologized.. :clown: