Frances Moore Lappe
This week, we\u2019ll hear from Frances Moore Lapp\xe9, whose groundbreaking book \u201cDiet for a Small Planet\u201d was controversial when it first came out in 1971.\xa0 World hunger was a major news topic and a genuine concern; many believed there simply wasn\u2019t enough food to feed the planet.\xa0 But Lapp\xe9 argued that hunger wasn\u2019t caused by a scarcity of food, but a scarcity of power among those who go hungry.\xa0 She believed democracy \u2013 and a plant-centered diet \u2013 could solve the problem.\xa0 On September 9, 2021, Frances Moore Lapp\xe9 spoke to her daughter, Anna Lapp\xe9, about what drove her to write the book, and what she\u2019s learned in the intervening 50 years.\xa0 Anna Lapp\xe9 is also an author and an advocate for sustainability and food justice.