Lierre Keith is a writer, radical feminist, food activist, and environmentalist. Her book The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability has been called “the most important ecological book of this generation.” She was a strict vegan for decades, which damaged her health. After a traditional Chinese medicine doctor convinced her that the diet was going to kill her, she listened and immediately started feeling better. During her process of recovery she went on to discover many writers, researchers, and experts to help her understand why adapting a traditional foods lifestyle helped her heal and what she had done to herself.

On the show Lierre confesses why being a vegan didn't work the way it was promised, who the real enemy is when it comes to our food system, and how experiencing kindness & compassion was what she needed to break-through to healing her body needed. Now an expert on the subject, Lierre is also the co-author of Deep Green Resistance: Strategy to Save the Planet (Seven Stories Press, 2011) and she’s the editor of The Derrick Jensen Reader: Writings on Environmental Revolution (Seven Stories Press, 2012).

You can learn more about Lierre and her work at:

http://www.lierrekeith.com