Episode 1701 – Lierre Keith joins Vinnie on this Friday show to talk sustainable carnivorism, vegan lies, quitting veganism for your health, human instincts, environmental myths, Lierre’s vegan health issues, and more.
LIERRE KEITH
- Lierre has been on the show before.
- She used to be a vegan, but had terrible health issues as a result and switched to a low carb high fat diet.
- Several vegans threw a pie laced with cayenne on her at one of her speaking events.
- She couldn’t breath for about a week.
- It burned and she felt paralyzed.
- They never caught the three guys.
- She became a vegan as a teenager.
QUITTING VEGANISM
- Somewhere around 85% of vegans stop being vegan.
- Most people don’t last 3 months — they realize it’s not working.
- Lierre was ideologically extreme – when she commits, she commits. So, it took her health REALLY declining to quit veganism.
- Her body was failing when she wasn’t eating meat — she didn’t get enough cholesterol.
- She cares a ton about sustainability and ethical treatment of livestock, which is partly why she was vegan for so long.
- She realizes now that sustainable animal farming is good and not bad for the environment.
- Once you accept that all you’ve learned about veganism may not be true, there is a wealth of information and science out there pointing in the contrary direction.
- Open yourself up to it. Do the reading.
- In vegan world you don’t need animal protein — yet often, you still crave it.
- Simply put, you do need this sort of protein.
- Most people don’t have the willpower to fight this instinct, and that is a GOOD thing.
- Simply put, you do need this sort of protein.
- Lierre wrecked her spine, her reproductive organs, and other parts of her body eating this way.
- There are many other myths vegans need to overcome from indoctrination.
- Agriculture causes the killing of tons of animals, and contributes to mass extinction and soil depletion.
