When people hear about legal restrictions on marketing and advertising, often the response is: Aren't you just being a food nanny? Isn't that government playing too much of a role in our lives? When people have that response, they're forgetting… — Anna Lappe Copy Share Image
Diet-related illnesses are causing nearly as many deaths as tobacco-related illnesses, not to mention the impact on quality of life when you start to develop adult-onset diabetes as a child, or all these other diet-related illnesses. — Anna Lappe Copy Share Image
Those of us who think about what we eat, how it's grown, those of us who care about the environmental impact of food -… — Anna Lappe Copy Share Image
When people hear about legal restrictions on marketing and advertising, often the response is: Aren't you just being a food nanny? Isn't that government… — Anna Lappe Copy Share Image
The food industry is spending almost $2 billion a year marketing directly to children and teens. We know that those ads lead to children… — Anna Lappe Copy Share Image
Yes, there is a crisis of hunger on the planet, but hunger is not caused by a scarcity of food but a scarcity of… — Anna Lappe Copy Share Image
Part of what the food industry does with public relations, just like the chemical industry or the oil industry, is to try to erase… — Anna Lappe Copy Share Image
Hope doesn't come from calculating whether the good news is winning out over the bad. Its simply a choice to take action. — Anna Lappe Copy Share Image
People don't realize how much the food industry has infiltrated all aspects of our children's lived experience, including their experience at school. There are… — Anna Lappe Copy Share Image
Even very progressive, informed people still get tongue-tied responding to the question, can organic and sustainably raised food still feed the world? A corollary… — Anna Lappe Copy Share Image
Every time you spend money, you're casting a vote for the kind of world you want. — Anna Lappe Copy Share Image
Courage is saying maybe what I'm doing isn't working, maybe I should try something else. — Anna Lappe Copy Share Image
Part of what the food industry does with public relations, just like the chemical industry or the oil industry, is to try to erase… — Anna Lappe Copy Share Image
To argue that we need some technology in order to produce food to tackle hunger is completely blind to the facts on the ground.… — Anna Lappe Copy Share Image
Diet-related illnesses are causing nearly as many deaths as tobacco-related illnesses, not to mention the impact on quality of life when you start to… — Anna Lappe Copy Share Image
You could increase farmworker wages significantly and not change the price to the consumer at all - for instance, if you redistribute how revenue… — Anna Lappe Copy Share Image
Just in the past couple of years, there's been pushback against some of that marketing, as parents have gotten really upset. Now we're seeing… — Anna Lappe Copy Share Image
