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Frances Moore Lappé
02.10.1944 - PresentFrances Moore Lappé is the author of eighteen nonfiction books an an activist concerned with hunger, the environment, and global poverty. Her book Diet for a Small Planet began a food movement in its own right. Good eater.
"The real cause of hunger is the powerlessness of the poor to gain access to the resources they need to feed themselves."
– Frances Moore Lappé
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