beforewisdom Posted March 17, 2010 Share Posted March 17, 2010 Lierre Keith should send a fruit basket with a 'thank you" note to the 3 people who pied her. People who never would have heard of or cared about her book might just buy it to see what all of the fuss is about. She can also point out to reasonable, but uninformed people 3 examples of what she means by vegans being juvenile. Hitting her with a pie was a stupid thing to do that helped her and likely hurt animals by making other people a little more hesitant to listen to vegans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beforewisdom Posted March 22, 2010 Author Share Posted March 22, 2010 Before she got hit with the 3 pies, Keith's book was ranked at about #4500 on Amazon. As of about 5 min ago the sales ranking of her book was #1420. She also got interviewed by the local news as a result of being hit with the pies. A big theme of her book is that vegans are just a childish, intolerant, mean sub culture. Now she has a youtube video showing that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beforewisdom Posted July 2, 2010 Author Share Posted July 2, 2010 Some anarchist vegan/AR group just purchased the domain VegetarianMyth.com and put up an entire web site contradicting the factual mistakes Keith made in her book: http://www.vegetarianmyth.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ducati Posted July 2, 2010 Share Posted July 2, 2010 Maybe she had herself pied for the publicity. If we had a sample of the pie, we could determine if vegans might have thrown them. A real vegan would only throw a vegan pie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vegimator Posted July 2, 2010 Share Posted July 2, 2010 Some anarchist vegan/AR group just purchased the domain VegetarianMyth.com and put up an entire web site contradicting the factual mistakes Keith made in her book: http://www.vegetarianmyth.com/ I'm the one who bought it. We're not at anarchist- just vegan. It got started right after the pie incident though. It's lost a bit of steam as we've all realized how low her profile is but I think I may keep going with it soon. If anyone has read (or would like to read) the book and contribute to the site, PM me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beforewisdom Posted July 2, 2010 Author Share Posted July 2, 2010 Cool. I like that it is wikish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beforewisdom Posted August 3, 2010 Author Share Posted August 3, 2010 Erik Marcus recently posted about an article Keith wrote for Mother Earth News(http://www.motherearthnews.com/nature-community/the-truth-about-vegetarianism.aspx): http://www.vegan.com/blog/2010/08/02/lierre-keiths-truth-about-vegetarianism/ In it he pointed to an excellent review of her book that ripped it to shreds:http://www.amazon.com/review/R3M4LC3USB5H3S?ie=UTF8&ref_=cm_cr_rdp_perm My favorite quote from that review The author sites 207 references in this book.62 of those references are websites (~30%)18 are newspapers and magazines (~7%)32 are journals (~15%)95 are other books (~46%) First of all, think about that. 30% of the references in this book come from website information. Five of those 62 website references were Wikipedia. Wikipedia! One was Google Answers. I wont let my freshmen students use Wikipedia as a reference in their papers, why would it be acceptable for a book? Like websites, newspaper and magazine information needs to be taken with a grain of salt. Of the 32 journals less than half come from well known, peer-reviewed sources. The remaining 46% are books, which can truly say anything the author cares to print (as this one does) and only show that the author is getting her information from another source (and another opinion) aside from the primary one. The point of this is to make clear that this is a book that is sold as (and which many positive reviews hype as) providing scientific, factual, intellectual knowledge on the vegetarian/diet/health debate. In reality less than 8% of the book is coming from peer-reviewed, fact-checked sources which can provide unbiased, neutral information. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saulo Posted August 4, 2010 Share Posted August 4, 2010 Reminds me of the pieing of Anne Coulter except in her case they missed and got arrested for assault Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cold Fission Posted August 5, 2010 Share Posted August 5, 2010 If only the pies were pies of skin melting acid.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beforewisdom Posted September 3, 2010 Author Share Posted September 3, 2010 Yet another article that shows Lierre Keith did not make an informed or serious effort to get the facts right in her book. This time is pawned on her claim that plant based diets do not have tryptophan: Tryptophan, Milk and Depression by Virginia Messina RDhttp://www.theveganrd.com/2010/09/tryptophan-milk-and-depression.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beforewisdom Posted September 4, 2010 Author Share Posted September 4, 2010 http://vegetarianmythmyth.wordpress.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beforewisdom Posted September 21, 2010 Author Share Posted September 21, 2010 Review of “The Vegetarian Myth” by Virginia Messina RDhttp://www.theveganrd.com/2010/09/review-of-the-vegetarian-myth.html#comment-1992 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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