James Beard Awards 2008: Frances Moore Lappé video

When Diet for a Small Planet was first published in 1971, visionary and democracy advocate Frances Moore Lappé awakened a whole generation and changed the way people all over the world think about food, nutrition, and agriculture. In 2002, thirty years and three million copies later, Lappé followed up her bestseller with Hope's Edge: The Next Diet for a Small Planet. She is the author or co-author of sixteen books, many of which have been translated into more than a dozen languages; her most recent book, Getting a Grip: Clarity, Creativity, and Courage in a World Gone Mad was published in 2007. Co-founder of various national think-and-action-tank organizations including the Small Planet Institute, Institute for Food and Development Policy, and the Center for Living Democracy, in 1987 Lappé became the fourth American to receive the Right Livelihood Award (also known as the Alternative Nobel Peace Prize) for her "vision and work healing our

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[TheRogueMonk]

i dont understand is protein combining still nessecary or are they enforcing this new myth that you have to combine but not at ones? is this another myth? i am getting so tired of this monkey business

[breachbirthbaby]

exactly! it's colonialism which caused lack of democracy in the first place silly!

[VedicIntelligentsia]

Another white scumbag covering up white man's crimes against humanity. Hunger is not the result of lack of democracy. If that was the case then there would be no hunger in India. Hunger is the result of colonialism. There was no hunger until the sick white man started raping the world.

[wurlybird9]

I read the new book, Hope's Edge, and they have strengthened my commitment to living a gentler lifestyle. I don't expect to be perfect, but I will at least stop eating animal products whenever possible, and urge others to do the same.

[cazsh]

when I read DFSP in high school it changed my life and still influences it decades later. Lappe is one of my true heroes.

[somedayfire]

Thanks to the Lappe family for such dedication and hard work and insight—you're all such an inspiration.