The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice and Sustainability"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 a just and sustainable world, but by our ignorance." from back cover. Lierre Keith is a writer, radical feminist, food activist, and environmentalist. Her book The Vegetarian Myth: