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

Frances Moore Lappé

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Frances Moore Lappé
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 10
Author
Writer
Pendleton
Oregon
Frances Moore Lappe
Freedom
Make
Intelligent
Capacity
Please
Choices
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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 of your steak, each of their bowls could be filled with a cup pf cooked cereal grains.
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Beauty is created by fellow human beings, and enhanced because they are in relationship with each other.
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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.
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Our food system takes abundant grain,which people can't afford,and shrinks it into meat,which better-off people will pay for.
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I like to think of power back in its Latin root, its meaning comes from posse - to be able.
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What gave her [Diane Wilson] the courage? If you look at someone like Diane, it's easy to say, well I could never be like that. But we don't know. We do know that it's possible for a woman, who didn't grow up as a world changer, to find it in herself to take a stand.
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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.
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I never like to use those terms [like pessimistic].
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What has dawned on me is that focusing on the finite planet frame sends a message that we have gone as far as Nature can take us and therefore we need to give power to forces outside Nature.
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For me, just showing up for the traveling and writing gave me the power to overcome my fear of fear.
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I was a compulsive eater in my late teens and until I wrote Diet for a Small Planet, so I know what it feels like when food becomes a threat.
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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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Fear doesn't have to stop us.
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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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Fear doesn't necessarily mean that we have to stop. It doesn't mean that we are failures. It doesn't mean that we are cowards.
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A teacher told me this story some time ago: She asked her students to line up in order of how much power they thought they had relative to the others in the class, and they all fought to be last in line. They didn't want to acknowledge that they had personal power.
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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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My whole mission in life is to help us find the power we lack to create the world we want.
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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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Little wonder that it can seem unthinkable to say no, thanks to the modern-day equivalent of our tribe - our fear-driven culture.
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