Change You Can Bite Into

In 1971 Frances Moore Lappe released her now-classic book, “Diet For A Small Planet”. This groundbreaking book helped millions of readers understand the root causes for hunger and her core message was that food remains the central issue through which to understand world politics. As a continuation of her message of how the food system is broken and what needs to happen to fix it, her daughter Anna Lappe recently wrote a powerful book focusing on a different cause but the same solution.

Anna Lappe’s thought provoking book, Diet for a Hot Planet: The Climate Crisis at the End of Your Fork and What You Can Do About It is clearly one of the most important books of the year. Her message is simple: “If we are serious about addressing climate change, we have to talk about food.”

Lappe confronts the major role industrial agriculture plays in the climate crisis. Her responsibly researched investigation into a broken food system proves that the global use of hazardous chemicals, biotech crops, concentrated animal feeding operations and processed foods is destroying the eco-system.

In this book, Lappe lays out 7 principles of a climate friendly diet in an attempt to make her pursuit for environmental reform OUR pursuit for environmental reform. Informative and inspiring, Lappe is convinced that eating a plant based diet will influence the marketplace in ways we cannot imagine in addition to helping in the quests to end world hunger and combat climate change.

Read about the causes of the food-climate connection and learn how you can be a part of the solution!