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“Our production system takes abundant grain, which hungry people can't afford, and shrinks it into meat, which better-off people will pay for. But … our production system not only reduces abundance but actually mines the very resources on which our future food security rests.”

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Frances Moore Lappé buch Diet for a Small Planet

Quelle: Diet for a Small Planet, p. 65

“In exporting the Great American Steak Religion we are exporting a desire for the impossible. The earth could never provide the majority of its people with the grain-fed-meat-centered diet that Americans take for granted.”

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Frances Moore Lappé buch Diet for a Small Planet

Quelle: Diet for a Small Planet, pp. 94-95

“For every 16 pounds of grain and soy fed to beef cattle in the United States we only get 1 pound back in meat on our plates. The other 15 pounds are inaccessible to us, either used by the animal to produce energy or to make some part of its own body that we do not eat (like hair or bones) or excreted.”

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Frances Moore Lappé buch Diet for a Small Planet

Quelle: Diet for a Small Planet, p. 69

“We got hooked on grain-fed meat just as we got hooked on gas-guzzling automobiles. Big cars “made sense” only when oil was cheap; grain-fed meat “makes sense” only because the true costs of producing it are not counted.”

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Frances Moore Lappé buch Diet for a Small Planet

Quelle: Diet for a Small Planet, p. 73

“Yet many Americans who have reluctantly given up their gas-guzzling cars would never think of questioning the resource costs of their grain-fed-meat diet. So let me try to give you some sense of the enormity of the resources flowing into livestock production in the United States. The consequences of a grain-fed-meat diet may be as severe as those of a nation of Cadillac drivers.”

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Frances Moore Lappé buch Diet for a Small Planet

Quelle: Diet for a Small Planet, p. 66

“Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.”

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Frances Moore Lappé

O Magazine, May 2004

“I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.”

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Frances Moore Lappé

O Magazine, May 2004

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