Vegetarians and vegans are often motivated to avoid animal products out of concern for animal welfare and the environment. Lierre Keith is no exception. As a teenager, she became convinced that abstaining from meat was the best choice. However health concerns quickly ensued once she made that dietary choice.
She began to suffer from fatigue, hypoglycemia, irregular menstrual cycles, anxiety, depression, insomnia, and more. These initial conditions were followed by longer-term problems including autoimmune and degenerative disc disease. Her own health concerns, and those of others, led her to reexamine vegetarianism. Today, Lierre is the author of "The Vegetarian Myth" and a passionate advocate for including meat products in the diet, both for our benefit and for the health of the planet.
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I am not sure that “capitalism” is the problem, though, if one takes that term to mean the operations of a free market. It may well be that government subsidies and other interventions (e.g. the legal tolerance for the terrible pollution from the CAFO system) have greatly distorted the normal workings of the marketplace and created the Frankenstein industrial food system that we have in place today. So, beyond educating vegans and vegetarians on dietary needs, we must eliminate the numerous government interventions which are propping up our very unnatural approach to farming and animal husbandry.
Very good talk.