By Frances Moore Lappé // October 29, 2021 Our food is increasingly implicated in such major killers as heart disease, diabetes, obesity, high blood pressure, stroke, and certain cancers. (Photo: Flickr/cc/Jens Hembach) Originally Published on Common Dreams, October 29, 2021 My title is not hyperbole. I sure wish it were. In composing a new opening chapter for the 50th anniversary edition of Diet for a Small Planet, I dug into America's big dietary changes over the last half-

By Frances Moore Lappe // October 28, 2021 Originally Published in Edible Communities, October 28 2021 When I wrote Diet for a Small Planet fifty years ago, questioning a meat-centered diet built on large-scale, chemically addicted agriculture meant you were naive “back to the lander.” Since then, we’ve seen a revolution in awareness: Transforming how we farm and eat is increasingly recognized as essential—both to personal and environmental health. It is also now understood a

By Frances Moore Lappé / October 8, 2021 Emerging people’s movements are producing healthy food as they create democracy and sustain the tapestry of life in the soil, water, and atmosphere. Originally Published in Earth Island Journal, October 8, 2021 Writing Diet for a Small Planet 50 years ago, I was appalled. While the world obsessed over food scarcity, I saw the vast waste, destruction, and injustice built into “modern,” corporate, and chemical-driven agriculture then be