Frances Moore Lappe

Will Oxford Students Speak Out to Protect the Integrity of Their University?

Frances Moore Lappe | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Oxford University Press, Food Politics, Scholarly Standards, Environment, Democracy, Frances Moore Lappe, Journalism, Monsanto, College News
Frances Moore Lappe

Ultimately, the question before Oxford University students right now is whether they will demand that their university's press hold to the same standards that are required of them.

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What's the Difference Between Fox News and Oxford University Press?

Frances Moore Lappe | Posted 04.05.2012

Read More: Oxford University Press, Monsanto, Book Publishing, Food, Fox News, Oxford University, Food Politics, Frances Moore Lappe, Books News
Frances Moore Lappe

Democracy depends on honest, fair, accurate debate. Without it, we can't possibly meet today's challenges. And if academic presses don't hold the line -- when fair discourse in the wider culture is in collapse -- who will?

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Moby's New Bedfellows: The Vegan & The Hog Farmer

Jerusha Klemperer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Moby, Miyun Park, Animal Welfare, Vegan, Factory Farms, Frances Moore Lappe, Paul Willis, Climate Change, Diet-for-a-Small-Planet, Industrial Agriculture, Niman-Ranch, Teany, Food News
Jerusha Klemperer

How did Moby end up editing a book with a contribution by a sustainable hog farmer? We are at an interesting moment, I think, one in which the vegans are trying a new tact.

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The Future of Farming And Food: Corporate Culture Infiltrates Eco Farm

Makenna Goodman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Organic Farming, Farming, Kathleen Merrigan, Eco Farm, Organic Food, Aramark, Frances Moore Lappe, Organic, Grist, Family Farms, Green News
Makenna Goodman

Mother Earth wasn't the only thing watering the soil at Eco Farm 2010. Big business, too, came to rain on the parade.

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Moving From Lack to Hope

Adele Israel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Restorative Justice, Mirror Neurons, Producer Responsibility Law, Clean Elections, Change Congress, Liberation Ecology, Democracry, Wester Organization of Resource Councils, Frances Moore Lappe, Lack, Diet for a Small Planet, Concentration of Wealth, Western Colorado Congress, Denver News
Adele Israel

Frances Moore Lappé is a humorous, energetic dynamo. She's a democracy advocate, as well as a world food and hunger expert. Her Grand Junction speech was titled, "Getting a Grip on Democracy."

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Americans Wouldn't Want To Be Like Them! (Oh, Yeah?)

Frances Moore Lappe | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Europe, Feed-in Tariff, Germany, Poverty, Old Europe, Renewable Energy, Frances Moore Lappe, Clean Energy, Socialism, World News
Frances Moore Lappe

No culture can expect to look to another for answers, wholesale. But wouldn't it be tragic if we let mindless labels and manipulated stereotypes block us from inspiration and practical ideas just because they arise elsewhere?

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Is Clinton's 2012 Campaign Under Way?

Frances Moore Lappe | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Clinton, 2012 Election, Hillary, Barack, 2008 Presidential Race, Superdelegates, Rfk, Obama, Frances Moore Lappe, Mccain, Democratic Party, Politics News
Frances Moore Lappe

But now that it's clear to virtually everyone that -- barring some catastrophic event -- Clinton will not be the nominee in 2008, her actions seem to make sense only as a 2012 strategy.

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