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Food has always been at the center of community bonding, of family life, and simple pleasure, but it is becoming more and more an obsession, a source of pain.
Frances Moore Lappé
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Frances Moore Lappé
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 10
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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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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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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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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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Every choice we make can be a celebration of the world we want.
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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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Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
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There are surprising turning points there is the straw that breaks the camel's back, and you never know if your action could be the straw.
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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.
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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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much agricultural land which might be growing food is being used instead to 'grow' money (in the form of coffee, tea, etc.).
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Relationships are the core message of ecology.
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The good life is not about avoiding fear. Just the opposite.
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I never like to use those terms [like pessimistic].
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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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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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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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What was so moving for [Diane Wilson], and also for me, is that she felt the Bay itself was like her grandmother. She said, I don't think there's a woman alive who would give up fighting for her child, or her mother, or her grandmother.
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History doesn't proceed in incremental little notches.
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Because we are living in a culture increasingly dominated by fear where many feel blocked.
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