Frances Moore Lappé Quotes

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• 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…
• 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…
• Recent breakthroughs in science show we have just the capacities we need to face our planet's challenges. We're "soft-wired" for cooperation, empathy, fairness, along with…
• There is no formula. We all must become spirited inventors. There's no single answer - not even a single starting point. Even the 'teachers' ...…
• Our food system takes abundant grain,which people can't afford,and shrinks it into meat,which better-off people will pay for.
• 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…
• 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,…
• 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…
• Hope is not what we find in evidence, it's what we become in action.
• Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
• I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.
• 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…
• 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…
• Hunger is not caused by a scarcity of food but a scarcity of democracy,
• 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…
• Freedom is not the capacity to do whatever we please; freedom is the capacity to make intelligent choices.
• 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…
• 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…
• We can all reprogram our brain's responses by putting ourselves into new, initially uncomfortable situations. We'll learn fear might not mean 'stop'; I've come to…
• My whole mission in life is to help us find the power we lack to create the world we want.

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