Diet for a Small Planet Quotes

“For freedom is not the capacity to do whatever we please; freedom is the capacity to make intelligent choices.”
― Frances Moore Lappé, Diet for a Small Planet

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― Frances Moore Lappé, Diet for a Small Planet

“Because there is no Betty Crocker of plant foods telling me what a dish should be like, I became more experimental. I recall the first nonmeat dinner party I ever gave, for which I made a walnut-cheddar loaf. Never too confident about my cooking, I was comforted by the thought that at least no one would be comparing my dish with Julia Child’s version (who else ever tasted walnut-cheddar loaf?).”
― Frances Moore Lappé, Diet for a Small Planet: The Book That Started a Revolution in the Way Americans Eat

“Dancing also helped me make this change. If food and I had been battling, so had my body and I. In the culture I grew up in, the messages were so powerful that my girlfriends and I were wearing girdles to school by the time we were in junior high. When I began to dance, the old battle—me versus my body—was transformed. Instead of being just a problem to reshape and control, my body became a source of satisfaction and pleasure.”
― Frances Moore Lappé, Diet for a Small Planet: The Book That Started a Revolution in the Way Americans Eat

“I found that once I stopped cooking meat, it no longer appealed to me. If all our lives we handle flesh and blood, maybe we become inured to it.”
― Frances Moore Lappe, Diet for a Small Planet: The Book That Started a Revolution in the Way Americans Eat