January 26, 2011: Frances Moore Lappe was born in Pendleton Oregon. A graduate of Earlham College in Indiana, she was a “26-year-old trusting her common sense” when she began the research that led to the publication of Diet for a Small Planet, a book which sold over three million copies and changed forever the way people think about food.  Her little book showed that human practices, not natural disasters, cause worldwide hunger.  Food scarcity results when grain, rich in nutrients and capable of supporting vast populations, is fed to livestock to produce meat which yields only a fraction of those nutrients.

January 26, 2011: Frances Moore Lappe was born in Pendleton Oregon. A graduate of Earlham College in Indiana, she was a “26-year-old trusting her common sense” when she began the research that led to the publication of Diet for a Small Planet, a book which sold over three million copies and changed forever the way people think about food.  Her little book showed that human practices, not natural disasters, cause worldwide hunger.  Food scarcity results when grain, rich in nutrients and capable of supporting vast populations, is fed to livestock to produce meat which yields only a fraction of those nutrients.