THE CLIMATE CRISIS AT THE END OF YOUR FORK: An Interview with Anna Lappe

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Mon, 06/14/2010 - 12:00am
Reducing our carbon footprint through the food choices we make - with Anna Lappe

When we talk about the primary causes of climate change, the food we eat and how it's produced does not usually come to forefront of the discussion. Yet agriculture is responsible for nearly a third of the greenhouse gas emissions which are at the root of the climate crisis, and the emissions produced by the food sector are largely methane and nitrous oxide emissions, which have global warming effects many times more powerful than carbon dioxide.

This week on Locus Focus we talk with food activist and author Anna Lappe, whose new book Diet for a Hot Planet: The Climate Crisis at the End of Your Fork and What You Can Do About It, sends a strong message: if we are serious about addressing climate change, we have to talk about food. On this episode of Locus Focus we look at how we can break out of the corporate food model, cut the greenhouse gas emissions footprint of the food we eat and help work toward creating a more sustainable world.

Anna Lappé is a national bestselling author, television host, and public speaker, known for her work on sustainability and food systems. In 1971, her mother Frances Moore Lappé released her now-classic Diet for a Small Planet. Her core message, that food remains the central issue through which to understand world politics, remains as relevant today. Anna Lappe has pursued her mother's cause and taken it to the next level, raising consciousness around the world about the role that food, and the politics of food, plays in promoting the climate crisis.

Link to Anna's blog: http://www.takeabite.cc/blog/

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