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

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The Making of Oppositional Consciousness. In Oppositional Consciousness: The Subjective Roots of Social Protest, ed. Jane Mansbridge and Aldon Morris, 1–19. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 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. a b Sanbonmatsu, J. (2017) Blood and Soil: Notes on Lierre Keith, Locavores, and Death Fetishism Upping the Anti (Issue 12) 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.

L – One word I have heard for it is Techno-narcissism. Which I think sums it up. We’ve got to break that loyalty to the system and find that Biofillic urge that I honestly believe we are all born with. 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. Author Lierre KeithLIERRE KEITH: The most important reason is that the planet is being destroyed by the social arrangement called civilization. And agriculture is the activity at the base of civilization. Agriculture is, in fact, the most destructive thing that people have done to the planet. Yet the people who should care the most — environmentalists — don’t even identify agriculture as a problem. Blanchard is far from a radical feminist. He believes that gender-reassignment surgery can relieve psychological suffering; he has even counselled people who undergo it. He also accepts the commonly held view that male brains differ from female brains in ways that affect behavior. Nevertheless, Jeffreys believes that the work of Blanchard and Bailey shows that when trans women ask to be accepted as women they’re seeking to have an erotic fixation indulged. I think this analysis has been going on for a long time, that feminists have come with insights and put together environmental movement and the feminist movement and put all that together for a more global picture. I don’t think we’re going to get anywhere if we don’t do that. I don’t think you can understand part of it without the whole.The WDI members then decided to take their demonstration to the street, and set up on a sidewalk near the library. J – I think the environmental movement should be what it was set up to do which was to protect the natural world and should make its allegiance to life on the planet not to the system that is destroying life on the planet. That’s called changing the climate, that’s the thing they’re supposed to be stopping and they’re changing the climate by doing it. So first the industrial process to make it and then the horrifying gasses that are so much more dreadful for the atmosphere. The heat from the turbines close to the ground, there’s nothing good that can be said about this.

In our culture we have things like anorexia in others you might have FGM. It’s always the same, the sadism, the control. How do you get through to someone who thinks it’s some kind of sexy game to play? How are women not human beings? Hoagland, Sarah Lucia. 1988a. Introduction. In For Lesbians Only: A Separatist Anthology, ed. Sarah Lucia Hoagland and Julia Penelope, 1–14. London: Onlywomen Press.

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S – So you’re both part of the environmental movement. Why did you feel the necessity to write a book and make a documentary that criticises the movement? So it does mean questioning industrialised civilisation and beyond that it means questioning civilisation itself. Every place you go there are probably people still there who remember what the alternative is, older and better ways, where humans are integrated into living communities, who don’t impose themselves across the living world. Her views have attracted negative attention from some vegetarians, what one journalist has called a "Vegan War". [7] Illustrative of the heated political debate, protesters hit Keith with chili pepper-laced pies during a presentation of her book The Vegetarian Myth at the 2010 Bay Area Anarchist Bookfair. [8] The Vegetarian Myth [ edit ] Last year, British women’s rights campaigner Kellie-Jay Keen held a US tour of pro-woman free speech events which were targeted by multiple incidents of Antifa violence and disruption.

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.

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. Women’s Liberation at the Grass Roots: A View from Some English Towns, c.1968–1990. Women’s History Review 25 (5): 723–740. By getting that into public consciousness, that was a positive thing but their demands were always – we need to switch fuel sources – instead of trying stop those industrial processes that are literally devouring our planet, they want to, instead, create a whole new set of technologies that are supposed to be clean and green so that we can continue to have industrialised civilisation.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. Livingstone, Sonia. 2005. On the Relation Between Audiences and Publics. In Audiences and Publics: When Cultural Engagement Matters for the Public Sphere: Changing Media, Changing Europe Volume 2, ed. Sonia Livingstone, 17–42. Bristol: Intellect. We’re going to have to find a way to feel that again like the Buddhists talk about being as one with all. If you have those spiritual experiences where you do feel that, you can’t feel that for every minute of every day, it’s hard to function when you do but I think most people have had a few of those in their lives and they transform you so. Then there’s the partnership model where you understand we’re all in a relationship with each other and the relationship is important and it’s about care and concern for other humans, we all should have basic human rights and extending all of that to all the creatures of this incredible planet.