Diet for a Threatened Planet

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🗓️ 17 September 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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This September marks the 50th anniversary of the seminal work Diet for a Small Planet, in which Frances Moore Lappé argued that cattle constitute “a protein factory in reverse.” Lappé’s book inspired countless people to adopt vegetarian diets for environmental reasons. But in the last 50 years the industrial food systems in America have only grown bigger and more concentrated, and – as the Lappés would argue – more powerful. Together with her daughter Anna Lappé, author of Diet for a Hot Planet, the two now focus on the intersections between democracy, environment, food, and justice. “It's really important that we understand that in order to change our food environment, we need to really work to get money out of politics, and we really need to work on how to take on that kind of consolidated power in the industry,” Anna Lappé says. Guests: Frances Moore Lappé, author, Diet for a Small Planet Anna Lappé, author, Diet for a Hot Planet Analena Hope Hassberg, Associate Professor, Ethnic and Women's Studies Department, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona Ruth Richardson, Executive Director, Global Alliance for the Future of Food Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Climate One. I'm Greg Dalton.
0:03.0	50 years ago, Francis Moore Lepey wrote a book challenging our thinking about food supply and resource scarcity.
0:10.0	No one chooses to force others to go hungry or to degrade the earth.
0:14.0	So that's been the leading question of my life.
0:17.0	Why are we creating a world together that as individuals we abhor?
0:21.6	Anna LePay says today's industrial agriculture still makes it hard for people to access healthy,
0:26.6	nutrient-dense foods.
0:28.6	In order to change our food environment, we need to really work to get money out of politics,
0:33.6	and we really need to work on how to take on that kind of consolidated power in the
0:37.7	industry. And how can food be a tool to build greater environmental and climate justice?
0:43.0	Food justice really supports the creation of a more just and equitable local food system,
0:49.6	right, which alleviates some of the impacts that our globalized food system is having on the planet.
0:55.5	What changes are needed in our food system to ensure healthy people and ecosystems?
1:01.2	Climate One's empowering conversations connect all aspects of the climate emergency.
1:06.3	Some of these questions will be debated next week at the UN Food System Summit.
1:16.1	Climate One's Arianna Brocious spoke with Ruth Richardson, executive director of the Global Alliance for the Future of Food, about the importance of that summit and its relevance to COP26
1:21.6	in Glasgow later this year.
1:23.6	Food systems are at the center of all the critical crises we're facing, whether we're talking
1:28.5	about climate change, migration, security, public health. Food systems are central to all of those
1:35.9	crises. So we need to transform our food systems in order to transform our world to get
1:43.4	out of these crises that we're facing.
1:45.0	Then what is the change that we need?
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