This year marks the 40th anniversary of the publication of Frances Moore Lappé’s bestselling book Diet for a Small Planet, the first major work to criticize American meat production and advocate for a plant-centered diet as a means to combat global food scarcity. It is widely considered a foundational book of modern vegetarianism.
Forty years after the publication of this landmark book, the global food movement has made astonishing bounds: farmers markets are thriving, urban gardening and community-supported agriculture programs are becoming increasingly popular, and sales of organic goods have risen exponentially in the past decade. But there’s a lot still left to be done amid the great successes of our current food revolution. (more…)
