Pies-in-face attack roils anarchist-vegan world

[friendly_iconoclast]

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/03/17/MNGI1CGM1H.DTL


Pies-in-face attack roils anarchist-vegan world
Demian Bulwa, Chronicle Staff Writer

Wednesday, March 17, 2010


(03-16) 18:30 PDT SAN FRANCISCO -- An ex-vegan who was hit with chili pepper-laced pies at an anarchist event in San Francisco said Tuesday that her assailants were cowards who should direct their herbivorous rage at the powerful - not at a fellow radical for writing a book denouncing animal-free diets.

Lierre Keith, a 45-year-old Arcata resident, was attacked at 2:15 p.m. Saturday at the 15th annual Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair while discussing her 2009 book, "The Vegetarian Myth." A 20-year vegan, Keith now argues that the diet is unhealthy and that agriculture is destroying the world.

As Keith stood at a lectern at the Hall of Flowers in Golden Gate Park, three people in masks and black hooded sweatshirts ran from backstage, shouted, "Go vegan!" and threw pies in her face. While they fled, some in the audience cheered or handed out leaflets.

The attack, midway through a 30-minute talk, was captured on a video posted to YouTube and prompted blistering debates on radical Web sites....

[Ignis]

1. Pies: cool. Pies with capsicum: not so cool.

That being said, the core message of her book is ridiculous and deserves all the scorn we can heap upon it. She deliberately and disingenuously overlooks (or is too stupid to realize) that factory-farmed meat is where all of this "dangerous" :eyes: grain-based agriculture is going.

Don't get me wrong: I'm a fan of Jared Diamond's works and believe that an over-reliance on grain-based agriculture isn't healthy in the long term for either human bodies or human societies, but attacking vegetarian diets as the problem is just plain dumb.

[flvegan]

2. "herbivorous rage"

:rofl:

[LeftyMom]

3. I knew I should have gone this year.

Last year's drama was some primmie skinning a roadkilled raccoon. A little asking around revealed that said primmie was, you guessed it, an ex-vegan, he used to be friends with a buddy of mine.

[flvegan]

4. It's the framing of the whole thing.

She's a shitdiot.

If I ever get published, oh man...won't be pretty.