Melissa Acedera

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The Compassionate Kitchen: Buddhist Practices for Eating with Mindfulness and Gratitude

by Thubten Chodron

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The New Food Activism: Opposition, Cooperation, and Collective Action

by Alison Hope Alkon

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City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles

by Mike Davis

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Melissa Acedera wants to read Stirrings: How Activist New Yorkers Ignited a Movement for Food Justice (Justice, Power, and Politics) by Lana Dee Povitz	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
― Abraham Lincoln

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“It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
― Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book

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“I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods

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