Posted on 03/16/2010 8:23:42 PM PDT by SmithL
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.
Many people defended Keith - or at least her right not to be attacked. Others said she was dishonest and abusive to vegans and should not have been invited by the event organizer, San Francisco's Bound Together bookstore.
Police are investigating the incident but have made no arrests, a spokesman said. Keith said she did not go to a hospital and was able to speak at a second engagement later Saturday, but had sore eyes for a few days and developed an ear infection.
"The whole thing was designed for social humiliation," said Keith, speaking Tuesday from her sister's home in Kansas. "We're supposed to be against sadism and cruelty and domination,...
Keith said her values are similar in most ways to those of her attackers. She believes in militant action, even property destruction,
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What goes around comes around...
Ping
I’d take some pie hits not to be a vegan.
Keith said her values are similar in most ways to those of her attackers. She believes in militant action, even property destruction,
Is it me or does this not make any sense at all.
This woman is remarkable. She can hold two completely contradictory thoughts in her head at the same time and not even notice.
The Vegans are eating their own
What a bunch of fascist idiots.
There’s a joke in there somewhere.
A bit ironic.
It was inevitable.The left hates so much stuff that some leftists are bound to disagree with something.
Hi Keith. Welcome to our world.
Maybe a good steak will bring her around.
Vegan Pagan Anarcho Pie Fight PING!
Adolph Hitler was a vegetarian.
Religious fanatics acting as one would expect.
Funny how the meat eaters George Bush, Ann Coulter, Sarah Palin, and other meat eating conservatives are able to dodge shoes, pies, and other such missiles directed at them. For vegetarianism to be such a “healthy lifestyle’ it sure seems to slow down their synapses/reflexes.
LOL...I have no idea why, but when I read this account of this lunatic woman who is somehow upset about being hit by a pie made by anarchists...this particular picture just popped in my head...:)
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