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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.

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
Hearts
Possible
Free
Cannot
Heart
Life
Pulling
Serving

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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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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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Beauty is created by fellow human beings, and enhanced because they are in relationship with each other.
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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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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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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.
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With an eco-mind, we get ready for surprises, for we realize it's just not possible to know what's possible.
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What we see today is a world movement represented by the World Social Forum, involving all sorts of interactions across cultures, not to create some new ism, but to learn as we walk and to create more democratic forms of social organization that re-embed economic life in community.
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Because we are living in a culture increasingly dominated by fear where many feel blocked.
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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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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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Every time you take a step and walk with your fear, you'll never know the impact. But you can be certain somebody's watching, and that courage is contagious.
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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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We got hooked on grain-fed meat just as we got hooked on gas guzzling automobiles. Big cars made sense only when oil was cheap grain-fed meat makes sense only because the true costs of producing it are not counted.
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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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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 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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Every choice we make can be a celebration of the world we want.
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We are very much social creatures who model ourselves on one another.
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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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