Ebook {Epub PDF} Diet for a Small Planet by Frances Moore Lappé

Diet for a Small Planet: 50th Anniversary Edition. Available Now! By Frances Moore Lappé The 50th-anniversary edition of the extraordinary bestselling book that taught America the social and personal significance of a new way of eating—one that remains a complete guide for eating well in the new millennium—was released September 21st. This edition features a new introductory chapter, simple .  · Diet for a Small Planet. by. Frances Moore Lappé, Marika Hahn (Illustrator) · Rating details · 5, ratings · reviews. With the new emphasis on environmentalism in the 's, Lappe stresses how her philosophy remains valid, and how food remains the central issue through which to understand world politics.4/5. “Frances Moore Lappé is one of the few people who can credibly be said to have changed the way we eat—and one of an even smaller group to have done it for the better.”—The New York Times In , Diet for a Small Planet broke new ground, revealing how our everyday acts are a form of power to create health for ourselves and our planet. This extraordinary book first exposed the needless waste /5(29).

by Frances Moore Lappé with support from Anna Lappé and recipe developer, Wendy Lopez. Diet for a Small Planet is the bestselling book by Frances Moore Lappé that first awakened readers to the waste and destruction built into a grain-fed, meat-centered eating. At the time, books such as The Population Bomb warned of scarcity; but Lappé. When Frances Moore Lappé called cattle "a protein factory in reverse" in her book Diet for a Small Planet, she wasn't just arguing that meat was an inefficient way to feed humans. Frances Moore Lappé is the author or co-author of 20 books about world hunger, living democracy, and the environment, beginning with Diet for a Small Planet in She has been featured on numerous media and news outlets. Frances is the cofounder of three organizations including Food First and the Small Planet Institute, which she leads with her daughter, Anna Lappé.

In , experts said the cause of hunger was world overpopulation. Frances Moore Lappé showed they were wrong. When Frances Moore Lappé first published Diet for a Small Planet in , she began a revolution that connects our personal food choices to the rest of the world. In this adapted excerpt from the book’s 50th updated anniversary edition, she reveals how it all began. “Frances Moore Lappé is one of the few people who can credibly be said to have changed the way we eat—and one of an even smaller group to have done it for the better.”—The New York Times In , Diet for a Small Planet broke new ground, revealing how our everyday acts are a form of power to create health for ourselves and our planet. This extraordinary book first exposed the needless waste built into a meat-centered diet. Diet for a Small Planet. Diet for a Small Planet is a bestselling book by Frances Moore Lappé, the first major book to note the environmental impact of meat production as wasteful and a contributor to global food scarcity. She argued for environmental vegetarianism —practicing a vegetarian lifestyle out of concerns over animal-based.