Lierre Keith

The vegetarian diet is praised for being sustainable and animal-friendly, but after 20 years of being a vegan, Lierre Keith has changed her opinion. Contravening popular opinion, she bravely argues that agriculture is a relentless assault against the planet. In service to annual grains, humans have devastated prairies and forests, driven countless species extinct, altered the climate, and destroyed the topsoil - the basis of growth and life itself.

Food, Justice, and Sustainability

The Vegetarian Myth

Derrick Jensen

Max Wilbert

Bright Green Lies systematically debunks many of the lies and distortions that characterize the discourse of those who argue that 'technology will stop global warming' or that 'technology will save the planet.

Bright Green Lies

Aric McBay

A radical assessment argues that resistance is the only way to heal the world's environment and lays out action plans for both aboveground and underground resistance--from nonviolent actions all the way to guerilla warfare. Original.

Strategy to Save the Planet

Deep Green Resistance

Eine Streitschrift über nachhaltige und ethische Ernährung mit Fleisch und die Missverständnisse und Risiken einer streng vegetarischen und veganen Lebensweise

Ethisch Essen mit Fleisch

The planet is under serious threat from industrial civilisation, yet until now environmentalists have not considered strategies that might actually prevent the looming biotic collapse the Earth is facing. Earth at Risk is a vital and timely discussion of the world's environmental issues, featuring thinkers and activists who are willing to ask the hardest questions about the seriousness of the current global crisis. Each contributor in the volume presents an impassioned critique of the dominant culture and aims to change the way people think about saving our planet.

Building a Resistance Movement to Save the Planet

Earth at Risk

Ulrike Gonder

Ethisch essen mit Fleisch Der Mythos Vegetarismus kritisch beleuchtet. Mit verantwortungsbewussten Tipps für ein nachhaltiges Leben – mit Fleischgenuss Das sorgt für Zündstoff: Eine ehemalige Veganerin plädiert für Gerechtigkeit, Mitgefühl, Weltverbesserung – und tierische Lebensmittel! Lierre Keith weiß, wovon sie spricht: Sie war selbst 20 Jahre Veganerin, erkrankte ernährungsbedingt und isst heute wieder Fleisch, Milch und Eier. Dennoch bekennt sie sich zu einer gerechten Verteilung der Ressourcen, wendet sich gegen Agrarfabriken und tierquälerische Haltungsformen. Allerdings räumt sie zugleich schonungslos mit den Mythen des Vegetarismus auf. Nicht zerstörerisch, doch kämpferisch und mit dem Ziel, einen nachhaltigen Vorwärtskurs aufzuzeigen. Hierbei setzt sie sich mit den Irrtümern, Missverständnissen und Risiken der vegetarischen Ernährung auseinander. Alles fundiert und ausführlich mit vielen medizinischen, politischen und ökologischen Fakten untermauert. Lierre Keith plädiert für eine verantwortungsbewusste, nachhaltige und dabei ethisch korrekte Ernährung und spricht sich genau aus diesen Gründen gegen den (strengen) Vegetarismus aus. Ein engagiertes Buch, das Befürwortern wie Gegnern zu denken gibt. • Eine glaubhafte und engagierte Auseinandersetzung mit der Weltanschauung »Ernährung«. • Die Risiken einer streng vegetarischen Ernährung fundiert dargelegt. • Gerecht und nachhaltig essen – eine Positionsbestimmung über moralisch, politisch und gesundheitlich motivierte Vegetarier.

“In America, four hundred people own the wealth of more than half of the American population. We should not be saying tax the rich, but instead we should be saying take their money and redistribute it, take their property and redistribute it.” —Arundhati Roy Industrial civilization is devouring the planet and the future. The oceans are acidifying, whole mountains have been laid to waste, and the climate is teetering into chaos. Every biome is approaching collapse. And fifty years of environmentalism hasn’t even slowed the rate of destruction. Yet environmentalists are not considering strategies that might actually prevent the looming biocide we are facing. Until Earth at Risk. Earth at Risk: Building a Resistance Movement to Save the Planet is an annual conference featuring environmental thinkers and activists who are willing to ask the hardest questions about the seriousness of our situation. The conference is convened by Derrick Jensen, acclaimed author of Endgame, who has argued that we need a resistance movement against civilization itself. The twelve people in this volume present an impassioned critique of the dominant culture from every angle: William Catton Jr. explains ecological overshoot; Thomas Linzey gives a fiery call for community sovereignty; Jane Caputi exposes patriarchy’s mythic dismemberment of the Goddess; Aric McBay discusses historically effective resistance strategies; and Stephanie McMillan takes down capitalism. One by one, they build an unassailable case that we need to deprive the rich of their ability to steal from the poor and the powerful of their ability to destroy the planet. These speakers offer their ideas on what can be done to build a real resistance movement, one that includes all levels of direct action—action that can actually match the scale of the problem. Earth at Risk includes: Derrick Jensen, author of Endgame, A Language Older than Words, and many others. Lierre Keith, author of The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability; coauthor of Deep Green Resistance: Strategy to Save the Planet. Nora Barrows-Friedman, journalist and photographer; correspondent for outlets such as The Electronic Intifada, Al Jazeera, and Truthout.org. Jane Caputi, author of The Age of Sex Crime; Gossips, Gorgons, and Crones: The Fates of the Earth; and Goddesses and Monsters: Women, Myth, Power and Popular Culture. William Catton Jr., sociologist, author of Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change, and Bottleneck: Humanity’s Impending Impasse. Gail Dines, a founding member of Stop Porn Culture, author of Pornland: How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality. Thomas Linzey, executive director of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund. Aric Mcbay, coauthor of Deep Green Resistance: Strategy to Save the Planet. Stephanie Mcmillan, cartoonist; author of The Beginning of the American Fall; organizer for the anti-capitalist/anti-imperialist collective One Struggle. Riki Ott, marine biologist, author of Not One Drop: Betrayal and Courage in the Wake of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill. Arundhati Roy, author of An Ordinary Person’s Guide to Empire; Field Notes on Democracy: Listening to Grasshoppers; and many others. Waziyatawin, historian and anti-colonial activist, author of For Indigenous Eyes Only; What Does Justice Look Like? The Struggle for Liberation in Dakota Homeland; and other books.

«Non è stato un libro facile da scrivere, e per molti non sarà facile da leggere. Sono stata vegana per quasi vent'anni, animata da ragioni nobili e dal desiderio di salvare il pianeta, la sua natura selvaggia, le specie in via d’estinzione, e di non partecipare all'orrore degli allevamenti intensivi. Non volevo che il mangiare significasse uccidere animali. Insomma, sono stata anch'io vittima del mito vegetariano e dei suoi molti malintesi. Intendiamoci, coltivo ancora gli stessi ideali, mi batto per la salvezza del nostro pianeta. Ora però, forse anche a causa dei danni che la mia alimentazione estrema mi provocava, ho aperto gli occhi. E ho capito come funziona il ciclo vitale, e quanto sia giusto, ma anche crudele. Ho capito che l’agricoltura, lungi dall'essere la soluzione, è l’attività più distruttiva che gli esseri umani abbiano imposto al pianeta e comporta la distruzione di interi ecosistemi. La verità è che la vita non è possibile senza la morte, e che - indipendentemente da ciò che mangiate - qualcuno deve morire per alimentarvi». Lierre Keith

Cibo, giustizia, sostenibilità: non bastano le buone intenzioni

Il mito vegetariano

“This disturbing but very important book makes clear we must dig deeper than the normal solutions we are offered.”—Yvon Chouinard, founder of Patagonia Works "Bright Green Lies exposes the hypocrisy and bankruptcy of leading environmental groups and their most prominent cheerleaders. The best-known environmentalists are not in the business of speaking truth, or even holding up rational solutions to blunt the impending ecocide, but instead indulge in a mendacious and self-serving delusion that provides comfort at the expense of reality. They fail to state the obvious: We cannot continue to wallow in hedonistic consumption and industrial expansion and survive as a species. The environmental debate, Derrick Jensen and his coauthors argue, has been distorted by hubris and the childish desire by those in industrialized nations to sustain the unsustainable. All debates about environmental policy need to begin with honoring and protecting, not the desires of the human species, but with the sanctity of the Earth itself. We refuse to ask the right questions because these questions expose a stark truth—we cannot continue to live as we are living. To do so is suicidal folly. ‘Tell me how you seek, and I will tell you what you are seeking,’ the German philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein said. This is the power of Bright Green Lies: It asks the questions most refuse to ask, and in that questioning, that seeking, uncovers profound truths we ignore at our peril.”—Chris Hedges, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of America: The Farewell Tour

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