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 - we've been educated by fabulous books, like Fast Food Nation and documentaries like Food Inc. But despite these and other great projects that shine a critical light on the topic, every year the food industry spends… — Anna Lappe Copy Share
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 the extent to which what kids are eating and drinking is having as much of an impact on their lives… — Anna Lappe Copy Share
The food industry is spending almost $2 billion a year marketing directly to children and teens. We know that those ads lead to children demanding certain brands, and we know that food and drink marketing gets all of us to consume more calories. If we're going to address diet-related illnesses, talking about marketing to kids is a key step. There… — Anna Lappe Copy Share
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
