Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Frances Moore Lappé
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 10
Author
Writer
Pendleton
Oregon
Frances Moore Lappe
Economic
Daily
Dispense
Choices
Eating
Scarcity
Understanding
Poverty
Worldwide
Money
Wealth
Increasing
Way
Fine
Connect
People
Millions
Creates
Food
Cooking
System
Hunger

More quotes by Frances Moore Lappé

Image
Freedom is not the capacity to do whatever we please freedom is the capacity to make intelligent choices.
Frances Moore Lappé
Image
much agricultural land which might be growing food is being used instead to 'grow' money (in the form of coffee, tea, etc.).
Frances Moore Lappé
Image
The good life may mean doing some things that do not feel comfortable. It may mean sitting long hours just with yourself as you begin to listen to your own questions. That was the reality for me when I was 27, and it was really terrifying.
Frances Moore Lappé
Image
in a world where only a minor portion of the land is really well suited to agriculture, man is using much of the best land with dubious efficiency.
Frances Moore Lappé
Image
How we frame the world - how we talk about it and define it - affects how we see things and how we live.
Frances Moore Lappé
Image
Democracy is not what we have. It is what we do.
Frances Moore Lappé
Image
Our food system takes abundant grain,which people can't afford,and shrinks it into meat,which better-off people will pay for.
Frances Moore Lappé
Image
For me hope isn't wishful thinking or blind faith about the future. It's a stance toward life - one of curiosity and humility.
Frances Moore Lappé
Image
Each of us carries within us a worldview, a set of assumptions about how the world works - what some call a paradigm - that forms the very questions we allow ourselves to ask, and determines our view of future possibilities.
Frances Moore Lappé
Image
When we say we have hit the limits, we are saying that nature is the problem, when in fact the limits we have hit are the limits of destruction and waste, not nature.
Frances Moore Lappé
Image
[Fear] means that we are human beings walking into the unknown, and that we are risking breaking with others for something we believe in.
Frances Moore Lappé
Image
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.
Frances Moore Lappé
Image
Hope is not what we find in evidence, it's what we become in action.
Frances Moore Lappé
Image
I never like to use those terms [like pessimistic].
Frances Moore Lappé
Image
We didn't evolve to be passive victims or shoppers.
Frances Moore Lappé
Image
With an eco-mind, we get ready for surprises, for we realize it's just not possible to know what's possible.
Frances Moore Lappé
Image
Relationships are the core message of ecology.
Frances Moore Lappé
Image
Beauty is created by fellow human beings, and enhanced because they are in relationship with each other.
Frances Moore Lappé
Image
I like to think of power back in its Latin root, its meaning comes from posse - to be able.
Frances Moore Lappé
Image
A life-long mission has been to counter the notion that political engagement is the spinach we must eat in order to have the dessert of freedom.
Frances Moore Lappé