Frances Moore Lappé Quotes

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• 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

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• Every choice we make can be a celebration of the world we want.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Choices, World, Want

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

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  Food, Health, Science

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

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• I read a book in the late 1990s called The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness, by Erich Fromm, and it had a profound impact on me. Fromm takes Descartes' statement, "I think, therefore I am" and changes it to "I effect, therefore I am."

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Book, Thinking, Impact

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

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• 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, or what, it's grown for.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Issues, People, Decision

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

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

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  Food, Heart, Meat

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

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• Hope is not what we find in evidence, it's what we become in action.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Action, Evidence

  Frances Moore Lappé (2007). “Getting a Grip 2: Clarity, Creativity and Courage for the World We Really Want”, p.317, BookBaby

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• I learned this [ that fear doesn't have to stop me] when my world came apart. I was living a life-long dream of a family life combined with an organization to promote living democracy - all on a gorgeous 45-acre compound in rural Vermont. I'd spent a decade building my dream, and then it started to crumble, piece by piece - my marriage, my organization, my confidence.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Dream, Organization, Long

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

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• 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 meat makes sense only because the true costs of producing it are not counted.

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  Oil, Car, Meat

  "Diet for a Small Planet". Book by Frances Moore Lappé, 1971.

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• Every aspect of our lives is, in a sense, a vote for the kind of world we want to live in.

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  Motivational, World, Want

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• Hunger is not caused by a scarcity of food but a scarcity of democracy.

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  Democracy, Scarcity, Hunger

  "Democracy's Edge: Choosing to Save Our Country by Bringing Democracy to Life". Book by Frances Moore Lappé, 2005.

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• Many families participate in the Community Supported Agriculture movement, which allows a family to buy shares in a farmer's produce so that they know where their food is coming from, and they can take their families out and see the farm and meet the farmer. That movement has helped create a new culture around food.

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  Agriculture, Community, Movement

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

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• The real cause of hunger is the powerlessness of the poor to gain access to the resources they need to feed themselves.

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  Real, Causes, Needs

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• Freedom is not the capacity to do whatever we please; freedom is the capacity to make intelligent choices.

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  Intelligent, Choices, Capacity

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• The spirit that I am advocating is reframing how we view the world, and shifting from the negativity of lack and "not enough" to the positive frame of aligning with Nature.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Views, Negativity, World

  Interview with Karen Brown, blog.etsy.com. July 23, 2013.

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• I think that fear of embarrassment is the essence of the human challenge.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Thinking, Essence, Challenges

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

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• My path has not been smooth. But the great thing about getting to be an elder is that you can look back and see the intense times of confusion and challenge, and see that if you keep walking through them, they can lead to times of great satisfaction and reward.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Confusion, Challenges, Rewards

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

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• Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.

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  Fear Of Death

  O Magazine Interview, May 2004.

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• This is the first generation to know that the choices we're making have ultimate consequences. It's a time when you either choose life or you choose death ... Going along with the current order means that you're choosing death.

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  Health, Mean, Order

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• After the journey around the world, writing Hope's Edge, I began to see that it is not possible to know what's possible - and therein lies our freedom.

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  Lying, Writing, Journey

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

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• 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 33%. Losses due to insects alone have nearly doubled, ...from 7% in the 1942-1951 period to about 13% in 1974.

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  Dark, Loss, Age

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• I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.

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  Roots, Who We Are, Deny

  "O Magazine", May 2004.

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• 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.

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• For me hope isn't wishful thinking or blind faith about the future. It's a stance toward life - one of curiosity and humility.

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  Humility, Thinking, Curiosity

  "Frances Moore Lappe on Creating an Ecology of Hope". Interview with Mark Karlin, www.truth-out.org. December 26, 2011.

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• 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 about food connect us to a worldwide economic system. And that economic system - not scarcity - creates worldwide hunger for millions of people.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Food, People, Choices

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