Frances Moore Lappé | The Sun Magazine

Frances Moore Lappé

Frances Moore Lappé is co-author, with Joseph Collins and Cary Fowler, of Food First. She is also the author of Diet for a Small Planet.

— From August 1978
Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories

Food First — Beyond The Myth Of Scarcity

Book Excerpt

The world’s hungry people are being thrown into ever more direct competition with the well-fed and the over-fed. The fact that something is grown near your home in abundance, or that your country’s natural and financial resources were consumed in producing it, or even that you yourself toiled to grow it will no longer mean that you will be likely to eat it.

August 1978
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