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Frances Moore Lappé is an American author and social activist known for her research on food, agriculture, and global justice. Her book 'Diet for a Small Planet' was first published in 1971 and had a profound impact on the food movement.

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Famous Frances Moore Lappé Quotes

“I understand, of course, that grain-fed meat is not the cause of the world hunger problem - and eating some of it doesn't directly take food out of the mouths of starving people - but it is, to me, a symbol and a symptom of the basic irrationality of a food system that's divorced from human needs. Therefore, using less meat can be an important way to take responsibility. Making conscious choices about what we eat, based on what the earth can sustain and what our bodies need, can help remind us that our whole society must begin to balance sustainable production with human need.”

“Hunger is a people-made phenomenon, so the central issue is power: the power of those who make the decisions about what is grown and who, or what, it's grown for.”

People Made Decision Issues Hunger Phenomenon

Author:Frances Moore Lappé

“Imagine sitting down to an eight ounce steak, and then, imagine the room filled wit 45 to 50 people with empty bowls...For the feed cost of your steak, each of their bowls could be filled with a cup pf cooked cereal grains.”

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Author:Frances Moore Lappé

“Hope is not what we find in evidence, it's what we become in action.”

Action Evidence

Book:Getting a Grip 2: Clarity, Creativity and Courage for the World We Really Want

Source: Getting a Grip 2: Clarity, Creativity and Courage for the World We Really Want

“Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.”

Fear Of Death

Author:Frances Moore Lappé

“I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.”

Certain Roots Deny Who We Are

Author:Frances Moore Lappé

“I believe it is possible that we can turn today's breakdown into a planetary breakthrough on one condition. We can do it if we can break free of a set of dominant but misleading ideas that are taking us down.”

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Book:EcoMind: Changing the Way We Think, to Create the World We Want

Source: EcoMind: Changing the Way We Think, to Create the World We Want

“We got hooked on grain-fed meat just as we got hooked on gas guzzling automobiles. Big cars made sense only when oil was cheap; grain-fed meat makes sense only because the true costs of producing it are not counted.”

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Author:Frances Moore Lappé

“Hunger is not caused by a scarcity of food but a scarcity of democracy.”

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Author:Frances Moore Lappé

“I'm neither an optimist nor a pessimist. I am a dyed-in-the-woo l possibilist! By this, I mean with an eco-mind, we see that everything's connected and change is the only constant.”

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Author:Frances Moore Lappé

“Freedom is not the capacity to do whatever we please; freedom is the capacity to make intelligent choices.”

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Author:Frances Moore Lappé

“Despite a tenfold increase in the use of pesticides between 1947 and 1974 (in the US), crop losses due to pests have...remained at an estimated 33%. Losses due to insects alone have nearly doubled, ...from 7% in the 1942-1951 period to about 13% in 1974.”

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Author:Frances Moore Lappé

“You have increasing poverty and increasing wealth. Fine food is one way to dispense with a lot of money... It's understanding that our daily choices about food connect us to a worldwide economic system. And that economic system - not scarcity - creates worldwide hunger for millions of people.”

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Author:Frances Moore Lappé

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Born: February 10, 1944
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Quotes: 113

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Diet for a Small PlanetRelated source material

Rediscovering America's ValuesRelated source material

Diet for a Small Planet: The Book That Started a Revolution in the Way Americans EatRelated source material

EcoMind: Changing the Way We Think, to Create the World We WantRelated source material

Getting a Grip 2: Clarity, Creativity and Courage for the World We Really WantRelated source material

Hope's edge: the next diet for a small planetRelated source material

The quickening of America: rebuilding our nation, remaking our livesRelated source material

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