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

Frances Moore Lappé

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Frances Moore Lappé
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 10
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Pendleton
Oregon
Frances Moore Lappe
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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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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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What we need to get right is not focusing on the fear associated with quantity - not enough, scarcity, and lack - and moving instead to a worldview that explores quality and connectedness.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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On the one hand, our social nature is our greatest beauty - it means that we have natural empathy and sympathy. But our social nature also means that we may let ourselves be controlled by the judgments of others, precisely because we care so much about our status in community.
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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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[O]ur greatest contributions to the cause of freedom and development overseas is not what we do over there, but what we do right here at home.
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If we cannot know what's possible, then we are free to do that which is pulling our hearts and that which is life serving.
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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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Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
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Hope is not wishful thinking. It's not a temperament we're born with. It is a stance toward life that we can choose...not not. The real question for me, though, is whether m hope is effective, whether it produces or is just where I hide to ease my own pain.
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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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My whole mission in life is to help us find the power we lack to create the world we 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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We can't see ahead of time what actions are going to be the ones that move history in dramatic ways.
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