J – I grew up with a love of the natural world. I would go camping and go out in nature and see all the creatures we share the planet with. At the same time for much of my life I was unaware of the destruction that was happening. When I was 16 I watched a documentary called Revolution and learned for the first time that we’re in a mass extinction and the amount of life that is being lost and the devastation that is taking place because of this insane culture. That completely changed my life. I came out of the theatre and decided this is what I have to dedicate my life to. I’m going to work on this and do something about it. I started making documentaries about a week after that. The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability is a 2009 book by Lierre Keith published by PM Press. Keith is an ex-vegan who believes that "veganism has damaged her health and others". [1] Keith argues that agriculture is destroying not only human health but entire ecosystems, such as the North American prairie, and destroying topsoil. [2] [3] Keith also considers modern agriculture to be the root cause of slavery, imperialism, militarism, chronic hunger and disease. [4]

Andrea Dworkin talked about the barricade of sexual terrorism, it’s rape, incest, battering, pornography, prostitution, sexualised murder in various forms from culture to culture. They told us that they were concerned for the library staff. They couldn’t keep them safe. We didn’t want to put them at risk because they certainly didn’t sign up for this,” Keith said. Jeffreys, Sheila. 1993. The Lesbian Heresy: A Feminist Perspective on the Lesbian Sexual Revolution. Melbourne: Spinifex Press. S – As radical feminists when we say anything against ‘sex worker’s rights’ we get called swerfs (sex worker exclusionary radical feminists) So all we have to do is give women complete control over their reproductive lives and their sexual lives. Which goes against almost every religion in the world particularly the fundamental ones. They have an enormous amount of power.I think we forget, it’s so painful, what’s happening to our planet, a lot of people just learn to not feel it anymore and just go numb inside. But for whatever reason, I never did. It was just a natural progression to me when I became old enough to really start to try and understand what had really gone wrong on this planet. It was one of things I desperately wanted to get to the bottom of – why are doing this to our one and only planet? – and then, what can I do about it.

Struggling with these questions leads people in different directions. Plant-based nutritional travels As transgender rights gain acceptance, radical-feminist views have been shunned. Illustration by Alex Williamson. Luxton, Meg. 2001. Feminism as a Class Act: Working-Class Feminism and the Women’s Movement in Canada. Labour/Le Travail 48: 63–88.We know this, some of the founders of radical feminism, we’re the survivors of the worst of these harm. That’s how they knew what they knew. They had experienced it themselves. They all got together and talked about it. That was the basic model of consciousness raising. Solar panels and their massive fields if put into the desert, they destroy the desert tortoises. Wind doesn’t just kill birds and bats directly, even the pressure difference between the blades can cause their lungs to explode which is pretty horrific. That’s where they are installed but you see devastation at every stage of the production process. Mining, extraction, manufacturing, all sorts of toxic waste. With the rare earths involved with solar panels and wind turbines, it’s a disaster for the real world. If you test the bodies of all the people in the world they will contain nitrogen and the source of that nitrogen is fossil fuel. What that means is we’re eating oil. When you point that out you get accused of wanting to kill. I don’t want to kill anybody; I’m just pointing out the truth of the situation we are in. We are literally eating oil. That’s why the population has grown to the numbers that it has. Nobody could think this is a plan for the future. We are going to have to face this as adults. The best way forward is to support the rights of women and girls.

And it gets even more bizarre in that it’s those very agricultural foods that are promoted as the way to save the planet. So I wanted to reach the people most impassioned about the state of our planet and try to explain that we have gotten this wrong for a generation. It’s not the values that are wrong, it’s purely informational.

So our decision was to go out on the street near the library and give our speeches, because we have first amendment rights.”

In my lifetime it was still legal to rape your wife. Those laws weren’t overturned until the 1980s. It’s bad and still true around the globe. Around the globe we don’t have that much control over abuses to which men do to our bodies so all that’s going to have to change and it’s again similar to the natural world. BNT: You divide each type of vegetarian/vegan into three camps: the moral, political, and nutritional. Can you (briefly) outline the beliefs of each?That might be an exaggeration, but only a slight one. The members of the board of the New York Abortion Access Fund, an all-volunteer group that helps to pay for abortions for those who can’t afford them, are mostly young women; Alison Turkos, the group’s co-chair, is twenty-six. In May, they voted unanimously to stop using the word “women” when talking about people who get pregnant, so as not to exclude trans men. “We recognize that people who identify as men can become pregnant and seek abortions,” the group’s new Statement of Values says. That’s called changing the climate, that’s the thing they’re supposed to be stopping and they’re changing the climate by doing it. So first the industrial process to make it and then the horrifying gasses that are so much more dreadful for the atmosphere. The heat from the turbines close to the ground, there’s nothing good that can be said about this. That’s always the pattern. You have this bloated power centre, it’s the city and it’s surrounded by concrete colonies. So the city goes out, it takes everything that it can, you have to have an army to do that. The army is made possible by agriculture and agriculture also makes that army inevitable because every time you do agriculture, you’re destroying your soil, so you’re going to run out of food eventually. There’s a moment when you have a surplus and the human population grows in response to that surplus.