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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.
Frances Moore Lappé
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Frances Moore Lappé
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 10
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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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The problem is that our whole tribe - if you will, the larger community of humanity itself - is on a death march ecologically and in terms of the intensification of violence and conflict.
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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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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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I never like to use those terms [like pessimistic].
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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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[Fear] means that we are human beings walking into the unknown, and that we are risking breaking with others for something we believe in.
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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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A teacher told me this story some time ago: She asked her students to line up in order of how much power they thought they had relative to the others in the class, and they all fought to be last in line. They didn't want to acknowledge that they had personal power.
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