Video of “Vegetarian Myth” Author, Pied at Anarchist Bookfair
Video of “Vegetarian Myth” author Lierre Keith being pied at the Anarchist Bookfair, meeting a much tamer fate than the animals whose killing she promotes:
Speciesism is totally analagous to sexism and racism. The message of this action is: there will be resistance to all promoters of speciesism masquerading as “radicals” and attempting to embed themselves in our movement. Lierre Keith: You have been shown the door.
Looks like the people in the audience weren’t overly bothered lol. Were they there supporting her opposing her views? She said she got pepper in her eyes, didn’t see that happen.
can you people not see that you are being radicalized so that Blackwater will have a justification for existence. You cannot force people to live as you live, you can only lead by example, is that slow? Yes. Is it effective? Yes. Show yourselves to be people who can lead lives of service, humility, wisdom and stability and people will begin considering your way as plausible. Endorse the disrespect for an individual’s free speech by humiliation and silence and revealing yourselves to be just as authoritative, and totalitarian as you accuse others of being and spend another 100 years in the intellectual corner while the rest of the world discusses agreements like grownups.
vegans hate censorship unless they are doing it, with friends like you its no wonder why BEEF is still for dinner.
I wonder if “notimpressed” would have had the same opinion had this happened to someone speaking in favor of racism in a place where ethnic minorities gather…
This woman deserves no respect and putting a pie in someones face is just as much a form of free expression as her writing her book. Slow and effective are not an option when animals are suffering and dying due to greed, and gluttony.
This video is hysterical, I esp. love the music that was added for effect! Very appropriate!!!
The thing these Lierre Keith supporters don’t get is, we don’t see animals as property or things to be exploited or enslaved. Human Holocaust deniers get booted, nobody brings the free speech issue up there, except nazis & other similar wingnuts.
If you disagree with other people’s tactics. So be it! But to say the actions of a few make everyone else look bad. It’s just as bad as stereo types portraid onto people of color, queers, etc..
I fully support the pie throwing actions. And if I was in the audience, I would have been cheering too!
It’s said that Lierre Keith is even funded by this ignorant lobbist group called the Weston A Price foundation.
http://www.westonaprice.org/
Hell, thats even the top link on her websites link page.
http://www.lierrekeith.com/Links.htm
Lierre Keith (as well as Derrick Jensen) is as phoney & self-serving of an environmentalist as Al Gore!
Just another opportunistic capitalist asshole.
Go to the Derrick Jensen website http://www.derrickjensen.org
and look under the “appearence” section. You’ll find info for a Canadian event that both Keith & Jensen are doing.
The sliding scale price of admittance is between $183-over $400 (U.S. currency). Are you kidding me?!!
And to top it off, they sound so fucking cult-like it’s kinda frighening. They’re so over joyed that others are following their “curriculum” & putting together skill shares based on their teachings.
So some of us act to save animals from the clutches of those who do them harm & those they brainwash. And while some throw pies, others have their backs. It’s all another upcoming trend. This one is “meat is good”, “soy is bad” & with all trends, it’s marketable & another ground of dickheads with capitalize off it in a disguised way. Free Range is still ownership & enslavement. All the land stolen for animals to run between your fences, only to count the days till they’re slaughtered for bloodlust.
Pig out on plant parts, not body parts!
Wow…. I’d love to see these pussies pie me in the face, of course, I am not a 45 year old disabled woman, so these 20 something “men” would probably not dare approach me like that. What a bunch of assholes.
@ J. Disorder
And by the way, she doesn’t support animal exploitation, but I bet you never read her book. In fact, she was speaking AGAINST factory farming of animals and its destruction to our planet and health. hmmmmm, maybe you guys are the ignorant ones. And if you support throwing cayenne pepper in someone’s face, come over to my place sometime….
And one more thing, what do your plants eat? ANIMALS I guess those exploiting tomatoes should get pies in their faces.
This meat is murder BS is typical of people who don’t grow their own food and are not responsible for their actions.
@Abe–“Meat is murder BS?” Um…..meat IS murder. An animal has to be killed to create meat–there is nothing BS about it. I don’t have one ounce of sympathy for someone who goes around telling people to eat animals. What this moron–like so many others–totally ignores is that the biggest problem we face is human overpopulation. If there were fewer humans, we wouldn’t be destroying the planet like we are to feed ourselves. So–if she wants to encourage people to kill animals, then a pie in the face is just a very small taste of what she really deserves.
If you believe that overpopulation is such a pressing issue, then the best thing you can do about it is put a gun to your head and pull the trigger. Right now. Don’t wait another second, because for every minute you are breathing, you are killing mother earth.
Antigone, you don’t want animals to be killed, but you are saying humans deserve to be killed? Humans ARE animals, don’t forget. None of us are perfect.
I am vegan, and I don’t like Lierre Keith’s book at all (of course), but this “direct action” seems pointless to me. What did you accomplish by pie-ing someone in the face?
Hi Abe,
Many vegans that are economically privileged enough to own property actually have a garden and grow a lot of their own food. But a lot of vegans live in urban environments and rent and don’t really have the ability to grow much of their own food.
Plants (with the arguable exception of some exotic carnivorous plants) are actually autotrophs and are able to obtain energy and nutrients from inorganic sources such as sunlight, water, and CO2. There is no consumption of animals by these plants. Soil can be produced easily and renewed sustainably with compost from vegan sources and a well-thought out polyculture garden.
Jeremy
Louche: I’m saying that this imbecile is promoting the killing of billions of animals, then whining about getting a pie in the face. If you measure the two things out on a scale, they don’t even come close. If she got what she gave then, yes, she would be killed. Otherwise, she’s come out far ahead and should just shut up and go away.
I noticed that book in a Barnes & Noble a couple of weeks ago and felt so bad about it. Then on a bus I happened to read an article in an indy paper about the “pastry party” and I was so happy! Nobody was interfering with that woman’s freedom of speech; she was merely receiving commentary on her thesis. Don’t write bullshit if you can’t take the heat of reaction.
cats eat birds, birds eat worms, coyotes eat rabbits, tigers eat gazelles, bears eat fish, are they all murderers? Plants have nervous systems, you can hook them up to sensing monitors and get reactions, they don’t have the same type of consciousness, but they have consciousness, and we share some common DNA with them, we eat them, we take their life, do we not murder them as well then? life eats life, why call humans murderers when they eat like the other omnivores? we all survive on killing something else…unless you are a fruitarian.
at an anarchist book fair…. lawls.
http://majorbuttfacejensen.blogspot.com/
Some of you people who have left comments – get a life. Until all are free………..