[O]ur greatest contributions to the cause of freedom and development overseas is not what we do over there, but what we do right here at home. Frances Moore Lappé More Quotes by Frances Moore Lappé More Quotes From Frances Moore Lappé Making conscious choices about what we eat, based on what the earth can sustain and what our bodies need, can help remind us that our whole society must begin to balance sustainable production with human need. Frances Moore Lappé balancesocietychoices I think that luxury has nothing to do with money, and everything to do with beauty. Frances Moore Lappé luxurythinking Engagement is the good life. What could be more exciting than getting involved in something that you care about and joining with others and seeing something change? What could be more thrilling? Frances Moore Lappé joininggood-lifecare We didn't evolve to be passive victims or shoppers. Frances Moore Lappé passiveevolvevictim I learned this [ that fear doesn't have to stop me] when my world came apart. I was living a life-long dream of a family life combined with an organization to promote living democracy - all on a gorgeous 45-acre compound in rural Vermont. I'd spent a decade building my dream, and then it started to crumble, piece by piece - my marriage, my organization, my confidence. Frances Moore Lappé organizationdreamlong I think that fear of embarrassment is the essence of the human challenge. Frances Moore Lappé essencechallengesthinking Breaking with the pack may be exactly what we should be doing. Saying "no" to the dominant culture that is trapping us in destructive ways of living might be the most life-serving thing we can do. Frances Moore Lappé maymightculture 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. Frances Moore Lappé agedarkloss I understand, of course, that grain-fed meat is not the cause of the world hunger problem - and eating some of it doesn't directly take food out of the mouths of starving people - but it is, to me, a symbol and a symptom of the basic irrationality of a food system that's divorced from human needs. Therefore, using less meat can be an important way to take responsibility. Making conscious choices about what we eat, based on what the earth can sustain and what our bodies need, can help remind us that our whole society must begin to balance sustainable production with human need. Frances Moore Lappé vegetarianismresponsibilitypeople 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. Frances Moore Lappé oilcarmeat 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. Frances Moore Lappé agriculturemovementcommunity Freedom is not the capacity to do whatever we please; freedom is the capacity to make intelligent choices. Frances Moore Lappé intelligentchoicescapacity Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully. Frances Moore Lappé fear-of-death Each of us carries within us a worldview, a set of assumptions about how the world works - what some call a paradigm - that forms the very questions we allow ourselves to ask, and determines our view of future possibilities. Frances Moore Lappé assumptionviewsworld
