Women I Love: Frances Moore Lappé
Solutions for a Small Planet on the Brink
Did your parents raise you on a steady diet of tofu, soymilk and unsweetened granola?If so, you probably have Frances Moore Lappé to blame. Her seminal 1971 book Diet for a Small Planet was a bible for millions of baby boomers who wanted to eat better. For many, Diet was also a political and personal manifesto, the first book to detail how you don’t need meat to get enough protein, and more importantly, how there is more than enough food in the world to go around.
Hunger, Lappé found, is caused by a scarcity of democracy, not food.
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