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The Food Movement: Its Power and Possibilities - by Frances Moore Lap
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Great article, thank you for the link!
seedcorn
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So it's Ag's problem that people procreate like rabbits? OK.......
American farmers are considered by health insurance companies as the HEALTHIEST in the USA or the world. Love to know where she made up this number.
I have a bridge over the Amazon that is in Arizona for anyone that believes that. Not sure if that were true how many labor laws, etc would be broken. Now if we were talking about 3rd world countries, then there are no labor or pesiticide laws--of course she supports the 3rd world country's by buying their produce and NOT campaigning against their goods. It's American Ag's fault that 3rd world countries don't support environmental laws or labor laws--mean old, ag. While Ohio is back woods to the east or west coast liberals, it isn't a 3rd world country.
She could get her points across without the inaccuracies. Some don't like GMO's but are unwilling to pay for the increase production costs of non-GMO production. & of course EVERYTHING wrong with the world is either AG's fault or the government. The same government that the certain people (who complain about AG, government subsidies, etc) run to for $$$$$ for assistance to campaign their agenda & lifes style.
I had really hoped we were past this.
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Dear SeedCorn:seedcorn said:
Someday "life" will force you to experience, and have to accept the realities of this worldwhat a bummer.
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What's that supposed to mean?Ladyhawke1 said:
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As would I like to know. Did I state any inaccuracies? No. Did Ms. Moore, YES but it's I who gets chastised?????? OK, not sure what realities I'm going to face but with God's guidance, no problem.Smiles said:
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A simple answer to your question is.....Who is Frances Moore Lappe and who is seedcorn?
Frances Moore Lapp (born February 10, 1944) is the author of 18 books including the three-million copy Diet for a Small Planet. She is the co-founder of three national organizations that explore the roots of hunger, poverty and environmental crises, as well as solutions now emerging worldwide through what she calls Living Democracy. Her most recent book is Getting a Grip 2: Clarity, Creativity and Courage for the World We Really Want.
Contents [hide]
1 Biography
2 Writings
3 References
4 External links
4.1 Recent Articles
4.2 Videos
BiographyLapp was born in 1944 in Pendleton, Oregon to John and Ina Moore and grew up in Fort Worth, Texas. After graduating from Earlham College in 1966, she married toxicologist and environmentalist Dr. Marc Lapp in 1967. They had two children, Anthony and Anna Lapp. They divorced in 1977. She briefly attended University of California at Berkeley for graduate studies in social work.
Throughout her works Lapp has argued that world hunger is caused not by the lack of food but rather by the inability of hungry people to gain access to the abundance of food that exists in the world and/or food-producing resources because they are simply too poor. She has posited that our current "thin democracy" creates a mal-distribution of power and resources that inevitably creates waste and an artificial scarcity of the essentials for sustainable living.
Lapp makes the argument that what she calls "living democracy," i.e. not only what we do in the voting booth but through our daily choices of what we buy and how we live, provides a mental and behavioral framework of goods and goodness that is aligned with our basic human nature. She believes that only by "living democracy" can we effectively solve today's social and environmental crises.
Lapp began her writing career early in life. She first gained prominence in the early 1970s with the publication of her book Diet for a Small Planet, which has sold several million copies. In 1975, with Joseph Collins she launched the California-based Institute for Food and Development Policy (Food First) to educate Americans about the causes of world hunger. In 1990, Lapp co-founded the Center for Living Democracy, a 10-year initiative to accelerate the spread of democratic innovations in which regular citizens contribute to problem solving. She served as founding editor of the Centers American News Service (19952000), which placed stories of citizen problem-solving in nearly half the nations largest newspapers.
Frances Moore Lapps works have been translated into 15 languages, the most recent of which is a Chinese publication of Hopes Edge.[1]
In 2002, Lapp and her daughter Anna established the Small Planet Institute based in Cambridge, Massachusetts a collaborative network for research and popular education to bring democracy to life. With her daughter, she is also co-founder of the Small Planet Fund, channeling resources to democratic social movements worldwide.
Small Planet Institutes website, www.smallplanet.org, was revamped in November 2010. It features information on Frances and Anna, including book descriptions and news articles; resources on food, hunger and the environment; and resources on power and democratic life.
Democracy's Edge: Choosing to Save our Country by Bringing Democracy to Life, was released in 2006. This book completed a trilogy which began in 2002 with the 30th anniversary sequel to Diet for a Small Planet, titled Hope's Edge: The Next Diet for a Small Planet, co-written with her daughter, Anna Lapp. Then in 2004 she published with Jeffrey Perkins You Have the Power: Choosing Courage in a Culture of Fear. Among Lapp's other books are World Hunger: Twelve Myths and Rediscovering America's Values.
In March 2010, the Institute's publishing arm, Small Planet Media, released Lapp's newest book, Getting a Grip 2: Clarity, Creativity, & Courage for the World We Really Want, a through revision of the 2008 Nautilus Gold/"Best in Small Press" award winning edition.
Her latest book, EcoMind: Seven Thought-Leaps for the Planet, was released in Fall 2011.[2]
In 2006 she was chosen as a founding councilor of the Hamburg-based World Future Council. She is also a member of the International Commission on the Future of Food and Agriculture and the National Advisory Board of the Union of Concerned Scientists. She serves as an advisor to the Calgary Centre for Global Community and on the board of David Kortens People-Centered Development Forum. In 2009 she joined the advisory board of Corporate Accountability International's Value the Meal campaign.[3] She is a Contributing Editor to YES! Magazine. Lapp's articles and opinion pieces have appeared in publications as diverse as The New York Times, O Magazine, and Christian Century. Her television and radio appearances have included a PBS special with Bill Moyers, the Today Show, CBS Radio, and National Public Radio.
Lapp has received 17 honorary doctorates from distinguished institutions, including the University of Michigan, Kenyon College, Allegheny College Lewis and Clark College and Grinnell College. She also held various teaching and scholarly positions:
-From 1984-1985, Lapp was a visiting scholar at the Institute for the Study of Social Change, at the University of California, Berkeley.
- From 2000-2001, Lapp was a visiting scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
- In 2003, Lapp taught with Dr. Vandana Shiva in Dehra Dun, India, about the roots of world hunger, sponsored by the Navdanya researching and agricultural demonstration center.
- In 2004, Lapp taught a course on Living Democracy at Schumacher College in England.
- In 2006 and 2008, Lapp was a visiting professor at Suffolk University, Boston.[4]
In 1987 in Sweden, Lapp became the fourth American to receive the Right Livelihood Award, often called the Alternative Nobel. In 2003, she received the Rachel Carson Award from the National Nutritional Foods Association. She was selected as one of twelve living "women whose words have changed the world" by the Women's National Book Association.
Lapp receiving the 2008 James Beard Foundation Humanitarian of the Year AwardIn 2008, she was honored by the James Beard Foundation as the Humanitarian of the Year.In the same year, Gourmet Magazine named Lapp among 25 people (including Thomas Jefferson, Upton Sinclair, and Julia Child), whose work has changed the way America eats. Diet for a Small Planet was selected as one of 75 Books by Women Whose Words Have Changed the World by members of the Womens National Book Association in observance of its 75th anniversary.
Historian Howard Zinn wrote: A small number of people in every generation are forerunners, in thought, action, spirit, who swerve past the barriers of greed and power to hold a torch high for the rest of us. Lapp is one of those. The Washington Post says: Some of the twentieth centurys most vibrant activist thinkers have been American women Margaret Mead, Jeanette Rankin, Barbara Ward, Dorothy Day who took it upon themselves to pump life into basic truths. Frances Moore Lapp is among them."
Lapp's son, Anthony, is a New York City-based producer and is the director of Invisible Hand Media.
[edit] WritingsThin Democracy proposes that the government will govern themselves instead of the public good. Living Democracy proposes that the government governs for the public good
Diet for a Small Planet, Ballantine Books, 1971, 1975, 1982, 1991. ISBN 0345023781
Food First: Beyond the Myth of Scarcity (with Joseph Collins), Houghton Mifflin, 1977, Ballantine Books, 1979.
What To Do After You Turn Off the T.V., Ballantine Books, 1985.
World Hunger: Twelve Myths (with Joseph Collins), Grove Press, 1986, 1998.
Rediscovering America's Values, Ballantine Books, 1989
The Quickening of America: Rebuilding Our Nation, Remaking Our Lives (with Paul Martin Du Bois), Jossey-Bass, 1994.
Hopes Edge: The Next Diet for a Small Planet (with Anna Lapp), Tarcher/Penguin, 2002.
You Have the Power: Choosing Courage in a Culture of Fear (with Jeffrey Perkins), Tarcher/Penguin, 2004.
Democracy's Edge: Choosing to Save Our Country by Bringing Democracy to Life, Jossey-Bass, 2005.
Getting A Grip: Clarity, Creativity and Courage in a World Gone Mad, Small Planet Media, 2007.
Getting A Grip 2: Clarity, Creativity and Courage for the World We Really Want, Small Planet Media, 2010.
[edit] References^ New Chinese Publication Promotes Global Outreach of Ideas, Small Planet Institute (February 2011)
^ New Chinese Publication Promotes Global Outreach of Ideas, Small Planet Institute (February 2011)
^ "Value the Meal Advisory Board". http://www.stopcorporateabuse.org/value-meal-advisory-board. Retrieved 31 December 2009.
^ Frances Moore Lapp, Small Planet Institute
[edit] External linksSmall Planet Institute
Right Livelihood Award website
Interview on Humankind Public Radio
[edit] Recent ArticlesRetire Ronald McDonald--Do it for our kids! Frances writes that Ronald McDonald should be retired and McDonald's should halt advertising to kids, March 2010
The Movement Mother An interview of Frances Moore Lapp with her son, Anthony Lapp, June 2009
The City that Ended Hunger Frances writes about the city of Belo Horizonte, Brazil in Yes MagazineFeb,2009
[edit] VideosBurger King's Flawed Strategy Frances on Fox News
James Beard Awards 2008 Frances Moore Lapp video
Big Picture TV Video clips of Frances Moore Lapp speaking about living democracy
Interview on Democracy Now!, July 9, 2008
Liberation Ecology: Toward an Empowering Frame to Move from Crisis to Transformation, Frances Moore Lapp giving the keynote address at the annual Provender Alliance conference in Hood River, Oregon, October 2, 2008.
On KEXP 90.3 FM in Seattle, Washington An interview with Mike McCormick, producer of Mind Over Matters, July, 2008
Persondata
Name Lapp, Frances Moore
Alternative names
Short description activist against world hunger
Date of birth 10 February 1944
Place of birth Pendleton, Oregon, U.S.
Date of death
Place of death
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Moore_Lappé"
Frances Moore Lapp (born February 10, 1944) is the author of 18 books including the three-million copy Diet for a Small Planet. She is the co-founder of three national organizations that explore the roots of hunger, poverty and environmental crises, as well as solutions now emerging worldwide through what she calls Living Democracy. Her most recent book is Getting a Grip 2: Clarity, Creativity and Courage for the World We Really Want.
Contents [hide]
1 Biography
2 Writings
3 References
4 External links
4.1 Recent Articles
4.2 Videos
BiographyLapp was born in 1944 in Pendleton, Oregon to John and Ina Moore and grew up in Fort Worth, Texas. After graduating from Earlham College in 1966, she married toxicologist and environmentalist Dr. Marc Lapp in 1967. They had two children, Anthony and Anna Lapp. They divorced in 1977. She briefly attended University of California at Berkeley for graduate studies in social work.
Throughout her works Lapp has argued that world hunger is caused not by the lack of food but rather by the inability of hungry people to gain access to the abundance of food that exists in the world and/or food-producing resources because they are simply too poor. She has posited that our current "thin democracy" creates a mal-distribution of power and resources that inevitably creates waste and an artificial scarcity of the essentials for sustainable living.
Lapp makes the argument that what she calls "living democracy," i.e. not only what we do in the voting booth but through our daily choices of what we buy and how we live, provides a mental and behavioral framework of goods and goodness that is aligned with our basic human nature. She believes that only by "living democracy" can we effectively solve today's social and environmental crises.
Lapp began her writing career early in life. She first gained prominence in the early 1970s with the publication of her book Diet for a Small Planet, which has sold several million copies. In 1975, with Joseph Collins she launched the California-based Institute for Food and Development Policy (Food First) to educate Americans about the causes of world hunger. In 1990, Lapp co-founded the Center for Living Democracy, a 10-year initiative to accelerate the spread of democratic innovations in which regular citizens contribute to problem solving. She served as founding editor of the Centers American News Service (19952000), which placed stories of citizen problem-solving in nearly half the nations largest newspapers.
Frances Moore Lapps works have been translated into 15 languages, the most recent of which is a Chinese publication of Hopes Edge.[1]
In 2002, Lapp and her daughter Anna established the Small Planet Institute based in Cambridge, Massachusetts a collaborative network for research and popular education to bring democracy to life. With her daughter, she is also co-founder of the Small Planet Fund, channeling resources to democratic social movements worldwide.
Small Planet Institutes website, www.smallplanet.org, was revamped in November 2010. It features information on Frances and Anna, including book descriptions and news articles; resources on food, hunger and the environment; and resources on power and democratic life.
Democracy's Edge: Choosing to Save our Country by Bringing Democracy to Life, was released in 2006. This book completed a trilogy which began in 2002 with the 30th anniversary sequel to Diet for a Small Planet, titled Hope's Edge: The Next Diet for a Small Planet, co-written with her daughter, Anna Lapp. Then in 2004 she published with Jeffrey Perkins You Have the Power: Choosing Courage in a Culture of Fear. Among Lapp's other books are World Hunger: Twelve Myths and Rediscovering America's Values.
In March 2010, the Institute's publishing arm, Small Planet Media, released Lapp's newest book, Getting a Grip 2: Clarity, Creativity, & Courage for the World We Really Want, a through revision of the 2008 Nautilus Gold/"Best in Small Press" award winning edition.
Her latest book, EcoMind: Seven Thought-Leaps for the Planet, was released in Fall 2011.[2]
In 2006 she was chosen as a founding councilor of the Hamburg-based World Future Council. She is also a member of the International Commission on the Future of Food and Agriculture and the National Advisory Board of the Union of Concerned Scientists. She serves as an advisor to the Calgary Centre for Global Community and on the board of David Kortens People-Centered Development Forum. In 2009 she joined the advisory board of Corporate Accountability International's Value the Meal campaign.[3] She is a Contributing Editor to YES! Magazine. Lapp's articles and opinion pieces have appeared in publications as diverse as The New York Times, O Magazine, and Christian Century. Her television and radio appearances have included a PBS special with Bill Moyers, the Today Show, CBS Radio, and National Public Radio.
Lapp has received 17 honorary doctorates from distinguished institutions, including the University of Michigan, Kenyon College, Allegheny College Lewis and Clark College and Grinnell College. She also held various teaching and scholarly positions:
-From 1984-1985, Lapp was a visiting scholar at the Institute for the Study of Social Change, at the University of California, Berkeley.
- From 2000-2001, Lapp was a visiting scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
- In 2003, Lapp taught with Dr. Vandana Shiva in Dehra Dun, India, about the roots of world hunger, sponsored by the Navdanya researching and agricultural demonstration center.
- In 2004, Lapp taught a course on Living Democracy at Schumacher College in England.
- In 2006 and 2008, Lapp was a visiting professor at Suffolk University, Boston.[4]
In 1987 in Sweden, Lapp became the fourth American to receive the Right Livelihood Award, often called the Alternative Nobel. In 2003, she received the Rachel Carson Award from the National Nutritional Foods Association. She was selected as one of twelve living "women whose words have changed the world" by the Women's National Book Association.
Lapp receiving the 2008 James Beard Foundation Humanitarian of the Year AwardIn 2008, she was honored by the James Beard Foundation as the Humanitarian of the Year.In the same year, Gourmet Magazine named Lapp among 25 people (including Thomas Jefferson, Upton Sinclair, and Julia Child), whose work has changed the way America eats. Diet for a Small Planet was selected as one of 75 Books by Women Whose Words Have Changed the World by members of the Womens National Book Association in observance of its 75th anniversary.
Historian Howard Zinn wrote: A small number of people in every generation are forerunners, in thought, action, spirit, who swerve past the barriers of greed and power to hold a torch high for the rest of us. Lapp is one of those. The Washington Post says: Some of the twentieth centurys most vibrant activist thinkers have been American women Margaret Mead, Jeanette Rankin, Barbara Ward, Dorothy Day who took it upon themselves to pump life into basic truths. Frances Moore Lapp is among them."
Lapp's son, Anthony, is a New York City-based producer and is the director of Invisible Hand Media.
[edit] WritingsThin Democracy proposes that the government will govern themselves instead of the public good. Living Democracy proposes that the government governs for the public good
Diet for a Small Planet, Ballantine Books, 1971, 1975, 1982, 1991. ISBN 0345023781
Food First: Beyond the Myth of Scarcity (with Joseph Collins), Houghton Mifflin, 1977, Ballantine Books, 1979.
What To Do After You Turn Off the T.V., Ballantine Books, 1985.
World Hunger: Twelve Myths (with Joseph Collins), Grove Press, 1986, 1998.
Rediscovering America's Values, Ballantine Books, 1989
The Quickening of America: Rebuilding Our Nation, Remaking Our Lives (with Paul Martin Du Bois), Jossey-Bass, 1994.
Hopes Edge: The Next Diet for a Small Planet (with Anna Lapp), Tarcher/Penguin, 2002.
You Have the Power: Choosing Courage in a Culture of Fear (with Jeffrey Perkins), Tarcher/Penguin, 2004.
Democracy's Edge: Choosing to Save Our Country by Bringing Democracy to Life, Jossey-Bass, 2005.
Getting A Grip: Clarity, Creativity and Courage in a World Gone Mad, Small Planet Media, 2007.
Getting A Grip 2: Clarity, Creativity and Courage for the World We Really Want, Small Planet Media, 2010.
[edit] References^ New Chinese Publication Promotes Global Outreach of Ideas, Small Planet Institute (February 2011)
^ New Chinese Publication Promotes Global Outreach of Ideas, Small Planet Institute (February 2011)
^ "Value the Meal Advisory Board". http://www.stopcorporateabuse.org/value-meal-advisory-board. Retrieved 31 December 2009.
^ Frances Moore Lapp, Small Planet Institute
[edit] External linksSmall Planet Institute
Right Livelihood Award website
Interview on Humankind Public Radio
[edit] Recent ArticlesRetire Ronald McDonald--Do it for our kids! Frances writes that Ronald McDonald should be retired and McDonald's should halt advertising to kids, March 2010
The Movement Mother An interview of Frances Moore Lapp with her son, Anthony Lapp, June 2009
The City that Ended Hunger Frances writes about the city of Belo Horizonte, Brazil in Yes MagazineFeb,2009
[edit] VideosBurger King's Flawed Strategy Frances on Fox News
James Beard Awards 2008 Frances Moore Lapp video
Big Picture TV Video clips of Frances Moore Lapp speaking about living democracy
Interview on Democracy Now!, July 9, 2008
Liberation Ecology: Toward an Empowering Frame to Move from Crisis to Transformation, Frances Moore Lapp giving the keynote address at the annual Provender Alliance conference in Hood River, Oregon, October 2, 2008.
On KEXP 90.3 FM in Seattle, Washington An interview with Mike McCormick, producer of Mind Over Matters, July, 2008
Persondata
Name Lapp, Frances Moore
Alternative names
Short description activist against world hunger
Date of birth 10 February 1944
Place of birth Pendleton, Oregon, U.S.
Date of death
Place of death
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Moore_Lappé"
