“We hear, "Oh, we need to patent GMOs and develop new strains and new chemicals because Nature can't provide what we need." I have to debate people all the time who say that Nature can't provide enough.” PeopleNeedsEnoughDebateChemicalsStrainPatentsGmos Author:Frances Moore Lappé
“Diane Wilson asked, "Why aren't people upset? Why aren't people protesting?" The mayor and county commissioners told her to keep quiet, and everybody else was afraid to speak out against the companies, which included some of the country's biggest chemical companies. There were even attempts on her life. Family members abandoned her, and certainly none of the other shrimpers stood with her.” PeopleCountrySpeakCompanyQuietMembersUpsetChemicalsAbandonedFamily LifeCountyMayorsSpeaks OutFamily MembersWilsonCommissioners Author:Frances Moore Lappé
“That's what happened when my own life crumbled. The people who came into my life bolstered me to take more risks, to be even more true to myself.” PeopleMy OwnRiskHappenedMy Own LifeTrue To Myself Author:Frances Moore Lappé
“What we do in the book my daughter Anna and I wrote, Hope's Edge, is to give people a glimpse of food as a source of nourishment, health, and community, rather than a threat. That means reconnecting with food as it comes from the Earth and with those who produce food.” PeopleGivingMeanBookEarthCommunityProduceSourceDaughterThreatEdgesMy DaughterGlimpseNourishmentAnnaReconnecting Author:Frances Moore Lappé
“I don't rule anything out, and I couldn't underscore more the importance of what YES! is doing to show that there are people who are pushing the edge of hope, who are stepping into the unknown and taking risks, because that will then enable others to do the same.” PeopleShowsRiskImportanceEdgesPushingTaking Risks Author:Frances Moore Lappé
“No society has fulfilled its democratic promise if people go hungry... If some go without food they have surely been deprived of all power. The existence of hunger belies the existence of democracy.” PeopleIfsExistenceDemocracySocietyPromiseDemocraticHungerHungryFulfilledDeprived Author:Frances Moore Lappé
“I also believe that it's almost impossible for people to change alone. We need to join with others who will push us in our thinking and challenge us to do things we didn't believe ourselves capable of.” PeopleThinkingNeedsBelieveCommunityChallengesImpossibleCapable Author:Frances Moore Lappé
“What an extraordinary time to be alive. We're the first people on our planet to have real choice: we can continue killing each other, wiping out other species, spoiling our nest. Yet on every continent a revolution in human dignity is emerging. It is re-knitting community and our ties to the earth. So we do have a choice. We can choose death; or we can choose life.” PeopleFirstsHumansRealEarthTimeChoicesCommunityAlivePlanetsRevolutionDignitySpeciesExtraordinaryKillingTiesContinentsOur PlanetEmergingNestsHuman DignityBiodiversityKnittingKilling Each OtherChoose LifeWiping Out Author:Frances Moore Lappé
“Our food system takes abundant grain,which people can't afford,and shrinks it into meat,which better-off people will pay for.” PeoplePayMeatVegetarianGrainBetter OffShrinksVegetarianism Author:Frances Moore Lappé
“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.” PeopleWorldWayNeedsHumansImportantWholeHelpingProblemBodyEarthChoicesCoursesCausesResponsibilityBalanceEatingMouthsConsciousHungerProductionsSymbolsMeatFedsVegetarianGrainSymptomsTaking ResponsibilityDivorcedStarvingVegetarianismHuman NeedsIrrationalityWorld Hunger Author:Frances Moore Lappé
“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.” PeopleMadeDecisionIssuesHungerPhenomenon 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.” PeopleAnimalRoomsImagineCostSittingEmptyFilledEightWitCupsAnimal RightsGrainBowlsSteakSitting DownCereal 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.” PeopleWayChoicesUnderstandingWealthPovertyMillionsEconomicFoodFineEatingCookingHungerOne WayLots Of MoneyScarcityEconomic SystemsDaily Choices Author:Frances Moore Lappé