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Part memoir, nutritional primer, and political manifesto, this controversial examination exposes the destructive history of agriculture--causing the devastation of prairies and forests, driving countless species extinct, altering the climate, and destroying the topsoil--and asserts... Read Full Overview

We've been told that a vegetarian diet can feed the hungry, honor the animals, and save the planet. Lierre Keith believed in that plant-based diet and spent twenty years as a vegan. But in The Vegetarian Myth, she argues that we've been led astray--not by our longings for... Read Full Overview

Part memoir, nutritional primer, and political manifesto, this controversial examination exposes the destructive history of agriculture? "causing the devastation of prairies and forests, driving countless species extinct, altering the climate, and destroying the topsoil? "and... Read Full Overview