Frances Moore Lappé Quotes About Earth

Quotes about: Earth

• 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.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Time, Real, Ties

• Our heavily meat-centered culture is at the very heart of our waste of the earth's productivity.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Food, Heart, Meat

  Frances Moore Lappé (1971). “Diet for a Small Planet”

• The act of putting into your mouth what the earth has grown is perhaps your most direct interaction with the earth.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Food, Health, Science

  Frances Moore Lappé (1971). “Diet for a Small Planet”

• 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.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Choices, Balance, Society

  "Frances Moore Lappe: Diet for a Small Planet". Plowboy Interview with Pat Stone, www.motherearthnews.com. March/April 1982.

• 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.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Responsibility, Vegetarianism, People

  "Frances Moore Lappe: Diet for a Small Planet". Interview with Steve Keull and Pat Stone, www.motherearthnews.com. March/April 1982.

• In the late 1960s, there were alarming predictions that worldwide famine was around the corner. I wondered if humans had already lost the race, overrun the Earth's capacity. I let one question lead to the next, and unearthed information that would forever change my life: Not only is there enough food in the world to feed every man, woman, and child on Earth, there is enough to make us all chubby.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Children, Men, Race

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

• 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.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Daughter, Book, Mean

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

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