Anna Lappé & Frances Moore Lappé with Raj Patel (4/13/10)

Eat, Drink, and Be Ecological About It

Anna Lappé, Author, Diet for a Hot Planet
Frances Moore Lappé, Author, Diet for a Small Planet
Raj Patel, Activist, Author, Stuffed and Starved, The Value of Nothing - Moderator

Nearly 40 years ago, before daughter Anna was a twinkle in her eye, Frances Moore Lappé published Diet for a Small Planet. Today, the pair still stand firmly behind this book which started as a one-page handout and would become the foundation of Annas own life's work stressing that to understand world politics, we need first to understand food. Anna Lappé, one of Time's "Eco- Who's Who," argues that there's an unsettling connection between food production and global warming in her latest, Diet for a Hot Planet. The mother and daughter have traveled far and wide and conclude that "hunger is not caused by a scarcity of food but by a scarcity of democracy." They encourage us to recognize food as a powerful starting point for solving one of our planet's biggest problems.

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• commonwealth club
• anna lappe'. raj patel
• food politics

[elbanydaer]

OMG! They are into spreading the climate change lie. Is there no one who is honest? No lone looking at the truth? No one researching before spreading big government Paradigms?

[Revisittheissue]

And yet Ms. Lappe continues to support animal agriculture, which is devastating for the planet.

[hyperlocavore]

Fantastic panel - Thank you! We are featuring it on hyperlocavore - a yard sharing community!

[Th3Wab3]

it is sad that the popular perspective is still that we don't have enough food while ignoring the massive waste which we continue to accept and allow