Economics

Food / Agriculture

Articles, Essays, Op-eds

• The Godmother of ‘Plant-Based’ Living, Steven Kurutz. “Frances Moore Lappé’s last hamburger was in 1971, the same year she published ‘Diet for a Small Planet,’ her hugely influential book about food and sustainability, which virtually created the publishing category of food politics and turned Ms. Lappé into what she once self-deprecatingly called ‘the Julia Child of the soybean circuit.’

  In ‘Diet,’ Ms. Lappé argued that Americans eat too much meat, especially beef, and that our meat-centered meals are an enormous waste of resources. Both our bodies and the planet would be healthier if we ate a plant-focused diet instead... (read more)