Our food system takes abundant grain,which people can't afford,and shrinks it into meat,which better-off people will pay for. — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
The act of putting into your mouth what the earth has grown is perhaps your most direct interaction with the earth. — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
Our heavily meat-centered culture is at the very heart of our waste of the earth's productivity. — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
Approaches to growing food that align with nature changed human relationships. — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
The real cause of hunger is the powerlessness of the poor to gain access to the resources they need to feed themselves. — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
Hunger is not caused by a scarcity of food but a scarcity of democracy, — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
I was a compulsive eater in my late teens and until I wrote Diet for a Small Planet, so I know what… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
What we do in the book my daughter Anna and I wrote, Hope's Edge, is to give people a glimpse of food… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
I had the realization that hunger is not caused by scarcity of food, it is caused by the production system and an… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
We got hooked on grain-fed meat just as we got hooked on gas guzzling automobiles. Big cars made sense only when oil… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
A life-long mission has been to counter the notion that political engagement is the spinach we must eat in order to have… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
Food has always been at the center of community bonding, of family life, and simple pleasure, but it is becoming more and… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
Hunger is a people-made phenomenon, so the central issue is power: the power of those who make the decisions about what is… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
Many families participate in the Community Supported Agriculture movement, which allows a family to buy shares in a farmer's produce so that… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
In the late 1960s, there were alarming predictions that worldwide famine was around the corner. I wondered if humans had already lost… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
You have increasing poverty and increasing wealth. Fine food is one way to dispense with a lot of money... It's understanding that… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
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… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
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… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share
What is different and exciting is how much we have learned. We learned we were right that we don't need the chemical model of… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share
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… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share
The good life may mean doing some things that do not feel comfortable. It may mean sitting long hours just with yourself as you… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share
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… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share
If we cannot know what's possible, then we are free to do that which is pulling our hearts and that which is life serving. — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share
My path has not been smooth. But the great thing about getting to be an elder is that you can look back and see… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share
Old models of farming with chemicals and credit mostly favored privileged men. — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share
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,… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share
Honest hope has an edge. It's messy. It requires that we let go of all pat answers, all preconceived formulas, all confidence that our… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share
Because we are living in a culture increasingly dominated by fear where many feel blocked. — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share
What we see today is a world movement represented by the World Social Forum, involving all sorts of interactions across cultures, not to create… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share
The problem is that our whole tribe - if you will, the larger community of humanity itself - is on a death march ecologically… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share
