I agree with Get a Grip (and all of the above commentators): Terra Verde's description of Ms. Keith is incorrect and misleading and should be changed. She plainly was not vegan, she was a wannabe vegan.

As the others have said, she was not a vegan or a vegetarian. You can’t binge on dairy products and/or meat – once a week/month/year - and be a vegan.
She is against monoculture and factory farming: Great!
What’s that got to do with being vegetarian?
I agree with a lot of what she is saying but she is alienating a massive proportion of her potential audience with some of her statements.
This should have been two books and then one could have been ignored and the other given serious consideration by anyone with a brain.
People are spending more time attacking her than listening to her message re. farming practices.

Look ... if she was binging on eggs and dairy every week, as she admits in the interview, she was never a vegan. It is as simple as that.

Possibly she was trying to follow a too strict macrobiotics. More likely she was suffering from some kind of psychological food disorder, and still is.

The woman make ridiculous statements. The idea that vegans "universally cheat" eating steak once a week is insane.

Please modify your description ... "Lierre Keith tried to become vegan for 20 years but failed to do so ..."