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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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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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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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I think of Wangari Mathai in Kenya. If she started out saying she wanted to plant 20 million trees, she would have been laughed at. In fact, the foresters and the government did laugh at her. They said, Villagers? Un-schooled villagers? Planting trees? No, no, no, it takes foresters. So she planted trees anyway.
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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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The good life is not about avoiding fear. Just the opposite.
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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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If we start with limits and a premise of scarcity and fear, it makes us fearful of each other, and that makes us vulnerable to anti-democratic systems.
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I had left graduate school, determined that I wasn't going to do anything else to save the world until I understood how I could get at the underlying causes of deepening suffering. To do that, I had to start by admitting that I didn't know.
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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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Fear doesn't have to stop us.
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Democracy is not what we have. It is what we do.
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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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We are very much social creatures who model ourselves on one another.
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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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How we frame the world - how we talk about it and define it - affects how we see things and how we live.
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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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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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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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Because we are living in a culture increasingly dominated by fear where many feel blocked.
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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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